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The collapse-era tale “Up in the Air” led Golden Globe skin contenders Tuesday with six nominations, among the best drama and acting honors for George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.

Other drama picks were the universes fantasy “Avatar,” the Iraq War tale “The Hurt Locker,” the World War II saga “Inglourious Basterds” and the Harlem drama “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push’ by Sapphire.”

The musical “Nine” ran jiffy with five nominations, plus best musical or comedy and acting slots for Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz and Marion Cotillard.

Also competing for musical or comedy are the romance “(500) Days of Summer,” the single-someone bash “The Hangover” and two Meryl Streep films, “It’s Complicated” and “Julie & Julia.” Streep is competing against herself as best actor in the musical or comedy, as chef Julia Child in “Julie & Julia” and a female in an event with her ex-spouse in “It’s Complicated.”

In TV categories, nominations for drama cycle went to HBO’s “Big Love,” Showtime’s “Dexter,” Fox’s “House,” AMC’s “Mad Men” and HBO’s “True Blood.” Musical or comedy chain bids went to NBC’s “30 Rock,” HBO’s “Entourage,” Fox’s “Glee,” ABC’s “Modern Family” and NBC’s “The Office.”

Nominees in the miniseries or movie type went to Lifetime Television’s “Georgia O’Keeffe,” PBS’ “Little Dorrit,” and three HBO offerings, “Grey Gardens,” “Into the Storm” and “Taking Chance.”

“Up in the Air” commonly has been considered a comedy, but its inclusion in the video drama group could give it more weight as a likely desired for the Academy Awards, where dramatic films cultivate to dominate. The sheet also earned best-boss and screenplay nominations for Jason Reitman.

“I can’t put into terms how exciting it is to feel and to know that I’ll be untaken to the Golden Globes with each, I worked with on this coating,” Reitman said. “This was one of those ensembles that we truly enjoyed working together. We’re a stern-unite family. The idea that we’re going together is just great.”

The directing class depths “Avatar” filmmaker James Cameron against ex-companion Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker.” Other directing nominees were Clint Eastwood for the South African rugby drama “Invictus” and Quentin Tarantino for his World War II reshape “Inglourious Basterds.”

Playing an everyday-flyer junkie in “Up in the Air,” Clooney had a nomination for best dramatic actor, along with Jeff Bridges as a boozy country vocalist in “Crazy Heart,” Colin Firth as an anguished gay academic in “A Single Man,” Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in “Invictus” and Tobey Maguire as a prisoner of war in “Brothers.”

“I irregular we will do a little bit of celebration, not an unbroken lot, you know. Nevertheless it’s amazing gossip,” said Freeman, who got the nomination hearsay in South Africa, where he is appearing for premieres of “Invictus.”

With four nominations, Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” had a surprisingly zealous showing. The skin was a hit with audiences and critics, but it was considered a bit of the awards longshot past a performance by Christoph Waltz, a supporting-actor candidate as a joyfully savage Nazi.

Tarantino also was nominated for the screenplay, in which he changes the war’s ending with an intense massacre at a Paris cinema.

“I’m extremely excited and overwhelmed,” said “Inglourious Basterds” co-star Diane Kruger, who helped announce the nominations. “It’s the first time I’ve been parted of such a big movie that encountered so much winner and love. I’m extremely cheerful for Quentin and Christoph. I think he gave one of those inspiring performances that only come around once in a while.”

Along with Streep, Sandra Bullock also had two nominations, as dramatic actor in the football report “The Blind Side” and as a dragon-woman boss forcing her supporter to pose as her fiancee in “The Proposal.”

“I am past stunned,” Bullock said. “Just to be included in the visitors of these amazing women I have so admired through the time has left me floppy-jawed with awe.”

Matt Damon picked up two nominations, as well, as musical or comedy actor live a whistleblower rotating crazy fabrications in “The Informant!” and as supporting actor singing a South African rugby star in “Invictus.”

Other dramatic actor nominees were Emily Blunt as Britain’s monarch in her early reign in “The Young Victoria,” Helen Mirren as the arrogant spouse of Leo Tolstoy in “The Last Station,” Carey Mulligan as a 1960s British teenager in an issue with an older man in “Education” and Gabourey Sidibe as an illiterate, abused teen spiraling her life around in “Precious.”

Sidibe was nominated for a powerhouse performance in her divider debut after she won the task at an open casting call. One of her big thrills was over the star who announced her nomination.

“I’m scrutiny it with my roommates, with my director and all these people, and we’re watching at the same time, and we all jumped. Well, I jumped, indeed, because Justin Timberlake said my name,” Sidibe said.

Julia Roberts were an amaze entrant for musical or comedy actor as a corporate spy in “Duplicity,” a box-staff underachiever that generally was not on the awards radar. Along with Roberts, Streep and Bullock, Cotillard rounded out the sort as the companion of an unfaithful filmmaker in “Nine.”

Day-Lewis as the “Nine” filmmaker scored a nomination for musical or comedy actor. Besides Damon, the class also includes Robert Downey Jr. as the London detective in “Sherlock Holmes,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a pining man in “(500) Days of Summer” and Michael Stuhlbarg as a 1960s Jewish academic besieged by crises in “A Serious Man.”

“Up in the Air” co-stars Farmiga, live Clooney’s numerous-flyer soul mate, and Anna Kendrick, playing a smart but inexperienced efficiency practiced, are competing against one another for supporting actor. Also nominated are Cruz as the filmmaker’s insecure mistress in “Nine,” Mo’Nique as a horrible welfare mother in “Precious” and Julianne Moore as a grief-injured professor’s best pal in “A Single Man.”

Damon and Waltz are coupled in the supporting-actor category by Woody Harrelson as a martial man delivering bad newscast to next of kin in “The Messenger,” Christopher Plummer as aging cause Tolstoy in “The Last Station” and Stanley Tucci as a soap killer in “The Lovely Bones.”

Hollywood’s instant main record honors after the Academy Awards, the Globes are a key ceremony that sort out the prospects foremost up to the Oscar nominations Feb. 2.

The 67th annual Globes will be handed out Jan. 17, six being before nomination voting closes for the Oscars. Globe winners can get a last-flash bump for an Oscar nomination, particularly on slighter films such as 1999’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” whose Globe triumph for Hilary Swank helped put her on the map for a best-actor win at the Oscars.

Last year’s best drama winner at the Globes, “Slumdog Millionaire,” went onto win best picture and dominate at the Oscars. Other Globe recipients who followed with Oscar wins included Heath Ledger as supporting actor for “The Dark Knight” and Kate Winslet, who won supporting actor at the Globes for “The Reader” and best actor for that film at the Oscars.

The Hollywood presented the Globes Foreign Press Association, a group of about 85 critics and reporters for overseas outlets.

Idea by Associated Press

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