British drama '12 Years a Slave' leads Golden Globe nominations

12 Years A Slave, a movie directed by Steve McQueen, has picked up seven nominations including best film drama at the Golden Globes.

16:17 13 December 2013

British film drama 12 Years a Slave, which is directed by Steve McQueen and which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, has picked up seven nominations including best film drama at this year’s Golden Globe Awards. McQueen, who is nominated for best director, will compete against David O’ Russell whose film American Hustle also received seven nods.

Meanwhile, Idris Elba, who is nominated for his role as Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom, will compete with fellow British actor Ejiofor for best actor in a film drama.

Other actors that were nominated for the same category include Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club, Robert Redford for All is Lost, and Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips.

Elba said: "I'm truly humbled and honoured to be acknowledged for two projects that, though very different from one another, are both extremely personal and special to me."

Meanwhile, Ejiofor said that the nomination is an “incredible recognition.”

He added: "The response to 12 Years A Slave and Dancing On The Edge [a TV project fpr which he is also nominated] from the public and media alike has been overwhelming and I am so very grateful. To have been a part of these amazing projects was a gift in itself.”

Below is the full list of nominations:

Best motion picture - drama
12 Years A Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush

Best motion picture - musical or comedy
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf Of Wall Street

Best director
Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
David O Russell - American Hustle

Best actor - drama
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford - All is Lost

Best actor - musical or comedy
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf Of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix - Her

Best actress - drama
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr Banks
Kate Winslet - Labor Day

Best actress - musical or comedy
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Julie Delphy - Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Enough Said
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Best supporting actor
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl - Rush
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best supporting actress
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

Best screenplay
Her - Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Bob Nelson
Philomena - Jeff Pope, Steve Coogan
12 Years A Slave - John Ridley
American Hustle - Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell

Best original score
Alex Ebert - All Is Lost
Alex Heffes - Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Steven Price - Gravity
John Williams - The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer - 12 Years A Slave

Best original song
Atlas - Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion
Let It Go - Frozen - Kristen Anderson Lopez, Robert Lopez
Ordinary Love - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Brian Burton
Please Mr Kennedy - Inside Llewyn Davis - Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Sweeter Than Fiction - One Chance - Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff

Best foreign language film
Blue is the Warmest Color - France
The Great Beauty - Italy
The Hunt - Denmark
The Past - Iran
The Wind Rises - Japan

Best animated feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen