The Brad Pitt drama Babel leads the way of this year’s Golden Globe Awards. The film picked up seven nominations Thursday morning, including best dramatic film. Pitt, along with co-stars Rinko Kikuchi and Adriana Barraza were nominated for best supporting actor and actress for their roles in the ensemble film.

Also up for several Golden Globes include Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and movie musical Dreamgirls, to open in wide release on Christmas Day.

Winners will be crowned at the awards ceremony to be broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 15. The Golden Globes are typically considered to be a good way to predict frontrunners for Oscar nods. This year’s Academy Awards will take place Feb. 27.

The Golde Globes also honour the best in television and it was medical drama Grey’s Anatomy and comedy Weeds that received the most nods, with four nominations each.

Golden Globe nominees, according to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are:

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Picture, Drama
“Babel”
“Bobby”
“The Departed”
“Little Children”
“The Queen”

Actress, Drama
Penelope Cruz, “Volver”
Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Sherrybaby”
Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Kate Winslet, “Little Children”

Actor, Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Blood Diamond”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Departed”
Peter O’Toole, “Venus”
Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”

Picture, Musical or Comedy:
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
“The Devil Wears Prada”
“Dreamgirls”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“Thank You for Smoking”

Actress, Musical or Comedy
Annette Bening, “Running With Scissors”
Toni Collette, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Beyonce Knowles, “Dreamgirls”
Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Renee Zellweger, “Miss Potter”

Actor, Musical or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
Johnny Depp, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Aaron Eckhart, “Thank You for Smoking”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Kinky Boots”
Will Ferrell, “Stranger than Fiction”

Director
Clint Eastwood, “Flags of Our Fathers”
Clint Eastwood, “Letters from Iwo Jima”
Steven Frears, “The Queen”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Babel”
Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”

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Series, Drama:
“24,” Fox
“Big Love,” HBO
“Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC
“Heroes,” NBC
“Lost,” ABC

Actress, Drama
Patricia Arquette, “Medium”
Edie Falco, “The Sopranos”
Evangeline Lilly, “Lost”
Ellen Pompeo, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”

Actor, Drama
Patrick Dempsey, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Hugh Laurie, “House”
Bill Paxton, “Big Love”
Kiefer Sutherland, “24”

Series, Musical or Comedy
“Desperate Housewives,” ABC
“Entourage,” HBO
“The Office,” NBC
“Ugly Betty,” ABC
“Weeds,” Showtime

Actress, Musical or Comedy
Marcia Cross, “Desperate Housewives”
America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty”
Felicity Huffman, “Desperate Housewives”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “The New Adventures of Old Christine”
Mary-Louise Parker, “Weeds”

Actor, Musical or Comedy:
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Zach Braff, “Scrubs”
Steve Carrell, “The Office”
Jason Lee, “My Name is Earl”
Tony Shalhoub, “Monk”






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