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'Birdman' leads the Golden Globe nominations with seven nods.
The black comedy movie - which stars Emma Stone, Edward Norton and Michael Keaton - is up for Best Screenplay, Best Score and Best Comedy or Musical as well as several individual awards for its cast and director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
The Best Film category will be hotly contested with nods for 'Boyhood' and 'The Imitation Game', which both received five nominations apiece, as well as 'The Theory of Everything', 'Foxcatcher' and 'Selma'.
The Imitation Game's Benedict Cumberbatch will do battle with fellow Brits Eddie Redmayne and David Oyelowo in the Best Actor in a Drama category, while Jake Gyllenhaal and Steve Carell are also up for the prestigious accolade.
Redmayne's movie 'The Theory of Everything' - in which he plays physicist Stephen Hawking - is up for four awards, including Felicity Jones' Best Actress in a Drama nod, which will see her go up against Jennifer Aniston, Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike and Reese Witherspoon.
Birdman's Norton has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama, but will face competition from Robert Duvall, Mark Ruffalo, JK Simmons and Ethan Hawke, while his 'Birdman' co-star Stone will go up against Patricia Arquette, Jessica Chastain, Keira Knightley and Meryl Streep for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' helmer Wes Anderson will do battle with Ava Duvernay ('Selma'), David Fincher ('Gone Girl'), Iñárritu ('Birdman') and Richard Linklater ('Boyhood') in the Best Director category.
Anderson will also take on Iñárritu, Linklater, Gillian Flynn ('Gone Girl') and Graham Moore ('The Imitation Game') for the Best Screenplay prize.
Emily Blunt earned a nod for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for 'Into the Woods', but will go up against fellow Brit Dame Helen Mirren as well as Amy Adams, Julianne Moore and Quvenzhané Wallis in the category.
There was also plenty of joy for Brits in the TV categories as 'Downton Abbey' picked up two nominations, for Best Drama Series and Best Supporting Actress for Joanne Froggatt.
The ITV period drama will take on 'The Affair', 'Game of Thrones', 'The Good Wife' and 'House of Cards' in the main category, but the show missed out on a Best Actor or Best Actress nod.
'The Affair' had nods for both thanks to Dominic West and Ruth Wilson, while 'House of Cards' also earned a hat-trick of nods as its leading stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright were put up for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Drama Series respectively.
The Golden Globe nominations were announced by Kate Beckinsale, Peter Krause, Paula Patton and Jeremy Piven, who all took turns reading out the names of the fortunate stars.
The 72nd Annual Golden Globes will take place on January 11, 2015, and the ceremony will welcome back hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who are set to present the show together for a third year running.

Golden Globes 2015 selected nominations:

Film Categories:

Best Film:
'Boyhood'
'Foxcatcher'
'The Imitation Game'
'Selma'
'The Theory of Everything'

Best Comedy of Musical:
'Birdman'
'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
'Into the Woods'
'Pride'
'St. Vincent'

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical:
Amy Adams - 'Big Eyes'
Emily Blunt - 'Into the Woods'
Helen Mirren - 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'
Julianne Moore - 'Maps to the Stars'
Quvenzhané Wallis - 'Annie'

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall - 'The Judge'
Ethan Hawke - 'Boyhood'
Edward Norton - 'Birdman'
Mark Ruffalo - 'Foxcatcher'
JK Simmons - 'Whiplash'

Best Song
'Big Eyes' - 'Big Eyes' (Lana Del Ray)
'Glory' - 'Selma' (John Legend, Common)
'Mercy Is' - 'Noah' (Patty Smith, Lenny Kaye)
'Opportunity' - 'Annie'
'Yellow Flicker Beat' - 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' (Lorde)

Best Director:
Wes Anderson - 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Ava Duvernay - 'Selma'
David Fincher - 'Gone Girl'
Alejandro González Iñárritu - 'Birdman'
Richard Linklater - 'Boyhood'

Best Actor in a Drama:
Steve Carell - 'Foxcatcher'
Benedict Cumberbatch - 'The Imitation Game'
Jake Gyllenhaal - 'Nightcrawler'
David Oyelowo - 'Selma'
Eddie Redmayne - 'The Theory of Everything'

Best Supporting Actress:
Patricia Arquette - 'Boyhood'
Jessica Chastain - 'A Most Violent Year'
Keira Knightley - 'The Imitation Game'
Emma Stone - 'Birdman'
Meryl Streep - 'Into the Woods'

Best Actress in a Drama:
Jennifer Aniston, 'Cake'
Felicity Jones, 'The Theory of Everything'
Julianne Moore, 'Still Alice'
Rosamund Pike, 'Gone Girl'
Reese Witherspoon, 'Wild'

Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical:
Ralph Fiennes - 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Michael Keaton - 'Birdman'
Bill Murray - 'St. Vincent'
Joaquin Pheonix - 'Inherent Vice'
Christoph Waltz - 'Big Eyes'

Best Screenplay:
Wes Anderson - 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Gillian Flynn - 'Gone Girl'
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo - 'Birdman'
Richard Linklater - 'Boyhood'
Graham Moore - 'The Imitation Game'


Television Categories:

Best Series, Drama:
'The Affair'
'Downton Abbey'
'Game of Thrones'
'The Good Wife'
'House of Cards'

Best Actress in a Drama Series:
Claire Danes - 'Homeland'
Viola Davis - 'How to Get Away with Murder'
Julianna Margulies - 'The Good Wife'
Ruth Wilson - 'The Affair'
Robin Wright - 'House of Cards'

Best Actor in a Drama Series:
Clive Owen - 'The Knick'
Liev Schreiber - 'Ray Donovan'
Kevin Spacey - 'House of Cards'
James Spader - 'The Black List'
Dominic West - 'The Affair'

Best Series, Comedy or Musical:
'Girls'
'Jane the Virgin'
'Orange is the New Black'
'Silicon Valley'
'Transparent'

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical Series:
Lena Dunham - 'Girls'
Edie Falco - 'Nurse Jackie'
Gina Rodriguez - 'Jane the Virgin'
Julia Louis Dreyfuss - 'Veep'
Taylor Schilling - 'Orange Is the New Black'

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical Series:
Don Cheadle - 'House of Lies'
Ricky Gervais - 'Derek'
Jeffrey Tambor - 'Transparent'
Louis CK - 'Louie'
William H. Macy - 'Shameless'

Best Mini-Series or TV Movie:
'Fargo'
'The Missing'
'True Detective'
'The Normal Heart'
'Olive Kitteridge'

Best Actress, Mini-Series or TV Movie
Maggie Gyllenhaal - 'The Honorable Woman
Jessica Lange - 'American Horror Story: Freak Show'
Frances McDormand - 'Olive Kitteridge'
Frances O'Connor - 'The Missing'
Allison Tolman - 'Fargo'

Best Actor, Mini-Series or TV Movie:
Martin Freeman - 'Fargo'
Woody Harrelson - 'True Detective'
Matthew McConaughey - 'True Detective'
Mark Ruffalo - 'The Normal Heart'
Billy Bob Thornton - 'Fargo'

Best Supporting Actress:
Uzo Aduba - 'Orange is the New Black'
Kathy Bates - 'American Horror Story: Freak Show'
Joanne Froggatt - 'Downton Abbey'
Allison Janney - 'Mom'
Michelle Monaghan - 'True Detective'

Best Supporting Actor:
Matt Bomer - 'The Normal Heart'
Alan Cumming - 'The Good Wife'
Colin Hanks - 'Fargo'
Bill Murray - 'Olive Kitteridge'
Jon Voight - 'Ray Donovan'

Ed Sheeran downed champagne out of a stolen pint glass and bought shots for random people to celebrate his Grammy nominations.
The 23-year-old singer had a "mad night" after discovering he had received nods for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Song for Visual Media at the prestigious awards by ordering Jagerbomb shots for people he had never met and he stole a mug to drink his bubbles out of.
He said: "[Sam Smith] and I went out for lunch and celebrated but in the evening when I found out I had the Best Album nomination I went wild.
"I went to a dive bar and just ended up outside and I ordered loads of rounds of Jagerbombs for everyone. People I hadn't even met, I was just buying drinks for everyone outside. It was good.
"I had this huge metal mug that I'd stolen and I was just filling it with champagne and drinking it like it was beer. It was a mad night."
The flame-haired singer is also planning to have a "mental" night celebrating if he manages to pick up the Best Album award at the ceremony in February next year.
Speaking to Yahoo Celebrity, he added: "I don't really know what I'll do if I win. If I did win the best album one I'd make it quite brief and let other people say something. Afterwards would be mental though."
Ed certainly seemed to have a lot more fun celebrating his nods than his pal Sam, who recently revealed the pair didn't have a drink during the daytime after finding out about their nominations, opting to celebrate with sushi instead.
He explained: "I was with Ed on the day it happened.
"We went for lunch and had sushi. But no drink was involved so it wasn't a proper celebration."

Cindy Crawford says being a party girl isn't in her "DNA".
The 48-year-old star shot to fame in the 1980s as one of the world's first supermodels and she admits there were a lot of bashes where drugs were readily available.
However, Cindy always avoided that side of the fashion industry, and thinks her upbringing played a big role in why she was able to turn her back on temptation.
In an interview with The Evening Standard newspaper, she revealed: "I guess for me, it wasn't that hard. It's just not who I am. I was raised in a small town in Illinois and I think those Midwestern qualities served me well. It just wasn't in my DNA to be a party girl, thank God!"
Cindy's 13-year-old daughter Kaia is just at the beginning of her modelling career and the catwalk legend insists she isn't worried about getting involved in the party scene because she was able avoid it.
The brunette beauty - who also has 15-year-old son Presley with her husband Rande Gerber - said: "When people ask me about my daughter, I feel like I could guide her in the right direction because I was able to navigate it. You can, it is do-able."

Zoe Saldana has given birth to her twins.
The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' star and her husband, artist Marco Perego, welcomed their first children into the world on Monday (08.12.14) and they are both "ecstatic" with the arrival of the babies.
A friend of the actress told the Mirror.co.uk website: "Zoe and Marco are delighted, Zoe has been ready to drop for some time and they are both ecstatic to be meeting the twins.
"This a dream come true for both of them, they are absolutely delighted. They have been looking forward this day for the last nine months. Both want a big family so this is the start."
No other details about the birth of the babies was available at the time of writing.
Zoe revealed she was expecting in July but it was her friend Britney Spears - whom she starred with in 2002 film 'Crossroads' - who let slip she was having twins.
The 36-year-old actress - who secretly married Marco in London in 2013 - previously insisted she would not be rushing back to work after having her children and wants to enjoy spending time with them as babies.
She said: "I know that we will work everything out. I have to say, I'm very lucky ... I've gotten nothing but support ... I'm not going to rip my child off my t*t to go work. And if I do that, then maybe you shouldn't hire me because I am willing to sell anything.
She added: "It's nature! Like, you just cannot do it. What kind of mother would I be? There's no choice. It's like, 'What, you want me to leave my newborn so that I can work 16 hours on your set? He's only a month old, are you out of your mind?' And the good thing is that half of the people you work with are all parents, and they get it."

Orlando Bloom is spending Christmas with Miranda Kerr.
The 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' actor split from the 31-year-old model last year but they have remained on good terms and will spend the festive season together for the sake of their three-year-old son Flynn.
Orlando said: "He's four in January. So his mom is really close, which is great. So we'll be able to do Christmas together.
"Her family, my family. We'll all kind of come together."
Meanwhile, the 37-year-old actor joked he is going to get a hair cut after he was compared with One Direction hunk Harry Styles.
He told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres: "Really? I'm trying to look like Harry Styles, hello. Wait a second! I'm trying to look like me, but I like Harry.
"I'm shooting a movie right now. That's why this mane is in place.
"[Will I cut it afterwards?] I think so, I don't know. If I'm getting compared to Harry Styles then maybe I should."
Orlando has previously stressed the importance of him and Miranda remaining amicable for their son.
He has said: "We're a family and we'll always love each other and we're going to be in each other's lives.
"What [Flynn] reads and knows about when he's a grown up is more important to me than anything, We both love and cherish each other and then our boy so it's great."

Angelina Jolie isn't planning to have more children.
The 39-year-old beauty already raises six kids, Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with husband Brad Pitt and though she doesn't think she wants to add to her brood, she won't rule it out entirely.
Asked if she wants more children, she told People magazine: "Not at the moment, no. Something could change tomorrow, so I don't know."
Angelina also admitted she was "extremely moved" by how much it meant to her children when she and Brad tied the knot after nine years together this summer, and she is focused on being the best possible wife and mother.
She said: "I want to have a strong marriage [and] I want to raise my children well."
Brad and Angelina have recently been working on a movie, 'By the Sea' - which the brunette beauty is also directing - together and she says the kids love accompanying them to work.
She said: "We spend so much time at home that the film aspect is a fun part of our lives. They come to the sets - but they also do so many other things with us."

Whoopi Goldberg let off a huge fart during a serious debate on 'The View'.
The 59-year-old star let rip on the US talk show on Wednesday (10.12.14) during a 'Hot Topics' debate in which singer Ashanti was discussing whether or not she thinks people should get a flu jab.
The camera was firmly focused on the 34-year-old singer when a sudden explosion of air could be heard.
Whoopi then sat in her seat looking sheepish and embarrassingly said: "Excuse me! Oooh, oooh."
The panel and studio audience erupted into a gale of laughter and Whoop then stood up, put her hand in the air and said: "Hold on for a minute."
Whoopi's fellow panellist Rosie O'Donnell then walked around the desk and started to jokingly wave her hands up and down in a desperate attempt to rid the studio of Whoopi's whiffy wind.
The other panellists joined in by picking up pieces of paper on their desks and frantically waving them up and down to try to exterminate Goldberg's gas.
Whoopi then declared: "Oh, I feel so much better now!"
Rosie joked: "You know those breakfast burritos, they kill us every day."
Whoopi added: "They kill you, I tell ya."
Ashanti quipped: "It was the flu shot, I told you."
Whoopi then managed to turn the stinky situation into a serious part of the programme by continuing the discussion on flu jabs.
She said: "Now, I have gotten a flu shot because I have to tell you, I think everyone should get one."
This is not first time Whoopi has managed to stink out a studio as in 2011 she broke wind while sitting on a sofa with 'Homeland' star Claire Danes and fellow host Joy Behar, who was particularly put out by the putrid pong.

Beyonce Knowles has arranged a play date for her daughter with Prince George in the new year.
The 32-year-old singer and her husband Jay Z met Duchess Catherine and Prince William at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn while watching a basketball game on Monday (08.12.14), and Beyonce is said to have bonded with the brunette royal about their children and arranged for Blue Ivy, two, to meet the 16-month-old prince.
A source said: "Bey was in awe of Kate and William and they found common ground talking about their babies. Now they've pledged to introduce Blue Ivy to Prince George when they come to England in the new year.
"They've already made a play date at George's nursery."
As well as enjoying the basketball game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets as part of her and William's three-day trip to New York, Catherine - who is pregnant with the couple's second child - also chatted to Beyonce about their Christmas present ideas for Blue and George.
The source told the Daily Star newspaper: "They were also discussing Christmas presents and how they didn't want to spoil their children.
"They agreed something small that their children can take to bed and cuddle is always a winner."
Another onlooker recently admitted it was like a "mob scene" around the two couples when they met at the match.
They explained: "Bey and Jay got up out of their seats during the break before the fourth quarter and walked across the court to say hi.
"Everyone was standing up and gawking. It's a mob scene around them."

Simon Cowell has told Lily Allen to "stop bleating" on about Fleur East.
The 55-year-old music mogul has rubbished claims by the 'Hard Out Here' singer which insinuated he had purposedly chosen the song 'Uptown Funk' for his contestant to sing on Saturday's episode of 'The X Factor' (07.12.14), because it would give the record company the chance to bring the release date forward on the Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson track.
In a series of tweets, Lily wrote: "Allow xfactor (sic)
"Is this even out yet ? #XFactor (sic)"
She then engaged in a lengthy discussion on the subject with the music website Pop Justice.
However, Simon has firmly told the 29-year-old pop star to mind her own business.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Lily should stop bleating on about all this. Fleur needed this break, got a chance, she totally killed it.
"Why not be happy for another artist and say congratulations instead of thinking of some stupid conspiracy theory."
Simon then admitted how he is pleased he never invited her to be the fourth judge on the show.
He said: "The irony is I spoke to Lily about being a judge. And from what I took from the meeting, she was seriously considering it.
"Thank God I said no. She'd be a barrel of laughs."
It appears as though the message has sunk in, after Lily tweeted: "Nothing says christmas quite like a new legal dispute.lawyers man, criminal (sic)"