Leading the nominees is The King’s Speech, directed by Emmy Award-winner Tom Hooper, with seven nominations, including Best Drama, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush, and Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter.
"[The King’s Speech] is incredibly good-natured in its appeal," Hooper told the Los Angeles Times. "I've traveled all over the world with the movie, and it makes people everywhere laugh. It makes people cry. There's something universal about it."
Following closely behind is the The Social Network, which landed six nominations, including Best Director for David Fincher and Best Actor for Jesse Eisenberg.
The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg as American boxer "Irish" Micky Ward, also received six nominations.
“It’s just so great," David O. Russell, nominated for Best Director, told Entertainment Weekly. "It’s just so fantastic to be recognized in a year with such good movies. You just want to savor the moment."
Glee, about a high-school glee club, leads in the TV category with five nominations, including for Best Television Series for a Comedy or Musical.
“Congrats Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and the whole cast and crew!” the show’s official Twitter recently posted.
The nominations were determined by the 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Golden Globe Awards will air live nationwide and in 160 countries on NBC, Sunday, January 16, 2011, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. (EST).
