2014 Golden Globes | experience it all.

The big winners at this year’s Golden Globes were 12 Years A Slave, American Hustle, Breaking Bad, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Slave took the coveted Best Motion Picture (Drama) home, and American Hustle nabbed four trophies for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Actress for Amy Adams, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, and Best Supporting Actor for Jared Leto. Though Gravity and Her didn’t win the big ones, they were recognized as the former movie’s director Alfonso Cuaron won Best Director and the latter’s writer/director Spike Jonze won Best Screenplay. Frozen won Best Animated Feature Film, but unfortunately it lost out to U2 for Best Original Song; “Let It Go” will have a shot at the Oscars.

Bad and Brooklyn dominated the TV side of things both scoring Best TV Series for a Drama and Comedy, respectively. Bad‘s star Bryan Cranston was named Best Actor and in a surprise turn of events Brooklyn‘s protagonist played by SNL alum Andy Samberg took home that award as well. And finally, Globes co-host Amy Poehler received an award for her turn as Leslie Knope in the low-rated but highly acclaimed sitcom Parks And Recreation.

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On Thursday the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the latest crop of Golden Globe nominees. The award show that celebrates the best in film and TV handed out the most nominations to movies 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle (they received 7 nods each) and series Breaking Bad and HBO movie Behind the Candelabra earned 7 nods in total.

12 Years A Slave, Captain Phillips, Gravity, Philomena, and Rush are in the running for Best Motion Picture Drama. American Hustle, Her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, and The Wolf Of Wall Street are competing for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The movies vying for Best Animated Feature Film are The Croods, Despicable Me 2, and Frozen.

In TV, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, The Good Wife, House of Cards, and Masters of Sex have all been nominated for Best Drama Series. The Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Girls, Modern Family, and Parks and Recreation are hoping to be named Best Comedy Series.

Personally, I’m excited about all the actors and actresses nominated in the TV categories. Dramatic actors like Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards), and even The Blacklist‘s James Spader are all up for Best Actor. And in the Best Actress category you’ve got Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany pitted against Kerry Washington (Scandal), Robin Wright (House of Cards), and Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black). Good stuff! And the good times keep on rolling in the comedy side. Jason Bateman and Andy Samberg have been nominated for their roles in Arrested Development and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, respectively, and Zooey Deschanel (New Girl), Amy Poehler (Parks and Rec), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) are recognized for their great work as well. In the supporting sections Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Corey Stoll (House of Cards), and Monica Potter (Parenthood) got nods, too. All in all, the HFPA did good selecting this year’s TV nominees.

That said, there will always the ones that got snubbed: The Walking Dead, Bates Motel, The Americans, Homeland, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Newsroom, Hannibal, Hello Ladies. And with all the wonderfully talented actors starring in those series, the list goes on and on.

The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards airs live Sunday, January 12 at 8PM ET on NBC hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Jump after the break to view the full list of nominees. Continue reading 2014 Golden Globe nods are in! →