Silent film The Artist is leading the charge for the Golden Globes, with six nominations.
Michel Hazanavicius's tale of a silent movie star struggling to cope with the advent of the talkies, picked up nods for direction, screenplay, original score, best comedy or musical along with nominations for its French stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.
Dujardin said: "The Golden Globe nomination for 'The Artist' has left me speechless."
The 1960s story of racial tension and emancipation, The Help, and George Clooney's Hawaiian drama The Descendants weren't far behind with five nominations apiece. Both films will vie for best drama, while Clooney was nominated for best dramatic actor and The Help earned acting nods for Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain.
Also in the running for best drama are Martin Scorsese's Paris-set adventure Hugo, Clooney's political thriller The Ides of March, Brad Pitt's baseball flick Moneyball and Steven Spielberg's World War I drama War Horse. Meanwhile, cancer comedy 50/50, Parisian romance Midnight In Paris, risque wedding romp Bridesmaids and Marilyn Monroe biopic My Week With Marilyn stack up against The Artist for best musical or comedy.
British and Irish talent has not been overlooked, with Michael Fassbender up for best drama actor for his role as a man struggling with sex addiction in Shame, and Brendan Gleeson nominated for the comedy acting gong for his cop role in The Guard. Tilda Swinton, meanwhile, faces formidable competition from Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Viola Davis (The Help) and Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) in the dramatic actress category. While Kate Winslet - nominated for Roman Polanski's Carnage - also faces stiff competition in the supporting comedy/musical actress category from Jodie Foster (also Carnage), Charlize Theron (Young Adult), Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) and Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn).
Aardman Animations' Arthur Christmas is also in the running in the animation category, where he will square up against Puss In Boots, Rango, Cars 2 and The Adventures Of Tin-Tin.
Five-time Academy Award and Globe nominee Morgan Freeman - who won the supporting-actor Oscar for Million Dollar Baby and a best-actor Globe for Driving Miss Daisy - will receive the group's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the ceremony on January 15.
The full list of the film nominees is below, for more information and the TV nominees, visit the official site
Picture, Drama:
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
Picture, Musical or Comedy
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Midnight In Paris
My Week With Marilyn
Actor, Drama
George Clooney, The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Ryan Gosling, The Ides Of March
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Actress, Drama
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Director
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo.
Actor, Musical or Comedy
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50
Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love
Owen Wilson, Midnight In Paris
Actress, Musical or Comedy
Jodie Foster, Carnage
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Kate Winslet, Carnage
Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Foreign Language The Flowers Of War
In The Land Of Blood And Honey
The Kid With A Bike
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Animated Film The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
Screenplay Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, The Descendants
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball
Original Score Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Abel Korzeniowski, W.E.[/film]
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Howard Shore, Hugo
John Williams, War Horse
Original Song Hello Hello (music by Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin), Gnomeo & Juliet
The Keeper (music and lyrics by Chris Cornell), Machine Gun Preacher
Lay Your Head Down (music by Brian Byrne, lyrics by Glenn Close), Albert Nobbs
The Living Proof (music by Mary J Blige, Thomas Newman, Harvey Mason Jr., lyrics by Mary J Blige, Harvey Mason Jr., Damon Thomas), The Help
Masterpiece (music and lyrics by Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry), W.E.
