The mountain of accolades continues to grow.

Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain leads the nominations for the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards, says the Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave the movie a best motion picture drama nod and also bestowed six other noms, including for directing and acting.

The other nominees competing for best drama are Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, and Woody Allen’s Match Point. Cronenberg missed out on a best director nod, with the HFPA naming Peter Jackson for King Kong and Steven Spielberg for Munich instead. However, most of the favoured movies are independent films with budgets of less than $30 million.

Brokeback’s closest competition is Good Night, Match Point and The Producers, which all got four nominations.
Focus Features will not change its original release schedule for Brokeback. The movie opened to sold-out crowds in Los Angeles and New York and will move into 18 markets this weekend.

Brokeback star Heath Ledger is in good company in the best dramatic film actor category. He’s up against Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote), David Strathairn (Good Night) and Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow).

Maria Bello (A History of Violence), Gwyneth Paltrow (Proof), Charlize Theron (North Country), Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs of a Geisha) and Felicity Huffman (Transamerica) compete for the title of best dramatic film actress.
Nods for best musical or comedy went to Mrs. Henderson Presents, Pride & Prejudice, The Producers, The Squid and the Whale, and Walk the Line.

On the small screen, ABC’s Desperate Housewives emerged with five nominations, the most for a TV show.

For the rest of the nominees, see http://www.hfpa.org/news/id/13. Winners will be announced on Jan. 16.






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