CLOSE It was a tough year to be named Ryan when it came to Golden Globe nominations. Here are some of the most notable Globes snubs for 2019. USA TODAY 
 
 Ryan Gosling missed out on an acting nomination for "First Man,' which wasn't nominated for best drama. (Photo: Daniel McFadden/Universal Studios) 
 
 The Hollywood Foreign Press Association showered awards praise on "Vice," which received six Golden Globe nominations on Thursday. But it was a bad morning for everyone named Ryan (Gosling, Coogler and Reynolds) at the 76th annual awards show, which reveals its winners on Jan. 6 (NBC, 8 p.m. EST/5 PST). 
 
 These were the most notable snubs: 
 
 Ryan Gosling, Ryan Coogler and Ryan Reynolds. It was a tough year for everyone's favorite Ryan. Gosling lost out on a nomination as astronaut Neil Armstrong in "First Man" (also overlooked for best drama). Coogler was passed over as director of "Black Panther" (nominated for best drama). And Reynolds, who earned nominations for best actor and best movie for 2016's "Deadpool," was overlooked for "Deadpool 2." 
 
 "This Is Us." The NBC drama was completely shut out, including from the best-drama category. Previous acting nominees Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz and Sterling K. Brown (who made history last year as the first African-American to win best actor in a TV drama series) all went missing. 
 
 Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan. "Black Panther" cruised into a best-drama nomination without lead actor Boseman, T'Challa himself, earning a best-actor spot. Jordan, as villainous Erik Killmonger, was also denied a nomination for best supporting actor. 
 
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 Clint Eastwood. The 88-year-old film legend's latest drama, "The Mule" – his first lead role since 2012's "Trouble With the Curve" – was stubbornly denied in all categories, including best actor. 
 
 "The Grinch." The animated film version of the Dr. Seuss classic, with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the Christmas-hating creep, has been a moviegoing favorite this holiday season. But it missed out on an animated-movie nomination. 
 
 "The Grinch" was denied an animated movie nomination by the Golden Globes. (Photo: Universal Pictures) 
 
 "Atlanta." The FX series, created and starring Donald Glover, took best comedy at the Golden Globes last year, but it failed to earn that nomination in 2018. Glover was nominated for best actor in a comedy, an award he won last year. 
 
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 "A Quiet Place." Director and star John Krasinski's box-office hit ($330 million worldwide), his first starring collaboration with wife Emily Blunt, has received rare critical raves for a horror film (an impressive 95% positive critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes), the kind that often warrant awards recognition. The film was nominated for movie of the year at the People's Choice Awards, but it scratched out only a nomination for best original score for the Globes. 
 
 Meryl Streep gives a little heartbreak in "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again." (Photo: UNIVERSAL) 
 
 "Widows." With an all-star cast (including Viola Davis and Liam Neeson), Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen's heist drama seems poised for awards glory. But it received nothing at the Golden Globes, not even a best-actress nomination for Davis. 
 
 The songs of "Mary Poppins Returns." Blunt (as Mary Poppins) and Lin-Manuel Miranda scored in the major acting categories, and the movie was nominated for best comedy or musical. Though Marc Shaiman's score earned a nomination, none of the songs in the musical, including "The Place Where Lost Things Go," were recognized. 
 
 “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” With both "A Star As Born" and Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" moved to the drama section, there was room for another actual musical to move into the best comedy or musical category. Ten years ago, the original "Mamma Mia!" took two nominations, for best comedy or musical, and best actress for Meryl Streep. The sequel was shut out in 2018. 
 
 Amandla Stenberg. Stenberg has earned raves for her performance in timely drama “The Hate U Give” as student Starr Carter, who witnesses the fatal police shooting of her childhood best friend. But the drama was overlooked. 
 
 Hugh Jackman. Given that Jackman nabbed a best-actor nomination last year for "The Greatest Showman," it would have seemed that the beloved Aussie could ride into this year's awards with a nomination for his serious political drama "The Front Runner," playing Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. But he did not. 
 
 Meryl Streep. Sure, Streep has a smaller role as Donna in "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!" than she did in 2008's first film, which earned her a best-actress nomination. And Streep has one memorable scene in "Mary Poppins Returns." But this is three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep, who has won eight Golden Globes. Any time she's overlooked, it's a snub. 
 
 Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/12/06/golden-globes-biggest-snubs/2221430002/ ||||| The 2019 Golden Globes nominations are out. Let’s first hit some surprises, because there were some rather huge ones on the TV side. 
 
 NBC’s fan favorite The Good Place was finally honored for best comedy series. Sacha Baron Cohen unexpectedly crashed the best actor in a comedy category for Showtime’s political prank series Who Is America? The excellent imported BBC/Netflix thriller Bodyguard got a best drama series nod. And Candice Bergen was nominated for CBS’ low-rated (and presumed canceled) Murphy Brown reboot. With the exception of The Good Place honor, top oddsmakers did not see any of those coming. 
 
 We’ll have more of surprises along the way. But here are the biggest snubs in the TV categories. 
 
 The Handmaids Tale (Hulu).The dystopian drama swept the Emmys for its debut season in 2017 and won for best drama series at the Globes last year. Yet season 2 failed to get a nomination in the top category, and it was a title on every prediction list (stars Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski were both nominated, as expected). This is a pretty shocking omission, though the latest season was admittedly more divisive among critics and fans than the first. 
 
 Westworld (HBO). Another big drama series snub. The second season cleaned up at the Emmys a few months ago, with four wins, but aside from a supporting nod for Thandi Newton, the Hollywood Foreign Press was apparently less impressed. Actors Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood were all left out. Also absent from the drama category: The second season of Ozark (Netflix) was snubbed, though star Jason Bateman was nominated. 
 
 Atlanta (FX): The second season of the innovative rap-scene comedy, despite being an Emmy favorite, was surprisingly shut out of the top comedy slots (though star Donald Glover was nominated). Also snubbed was another Emmy darling, Netflix’s ’80s wrestling dramedy GLOW (yet actress Alison Brie got a nod). There was an upside: The Good Place (NBC) finally broke into this category with its first Globes comedy series nomination, and star Kristen Bell was nominated for lead actress in a comedy too. 
 
 Sterling K. Brown, John Krasinski, Liev Schreiber, Milo Ventimiglia and Bob Odenkirk. The best actor in a drama category featured some serious upsets. Last year’s winner, Brown, was fully expected to at least get a nomination once again for This Is Us. Three-time nominee Odenkirk was fully expected to get recognized for Better Call Saul. Krasinski was fully expected to get nominated for his work in Amazon’s Jack Ryan. Five-time nominee Schreiber was fully expected to get nominated once again (due to the HFPA’s curious love for Showtime’s Ray Donovan). And Ventimiglia, well, he wasn’t fully expected to get a This Is Us nod, but some thought he might squeeze in. Instead, there were new additions like Stephan James for Amazon’s Homecoming and Billy Porter for FX’s Pose. 
 
 Jodie Comer. The Killing Eve actress was expected to get a nomination for lead actress in a drama series along with her co-star Sandra Oh (who was nominated), yet was shut out. Robin Wright was also snubbed for the final season of Netflix’s House of Cards. Instead, there was a minor surprise on the list: Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe, who was nominated last year, but wasn’t necessarily expected to make the list this time given the intense competition from newcomers like Oh and Homecoming‘s Julia Roberts. 
 
 Ted Danson. While The Good Place received nominations for best comedy series and an actress nod for Kristen Bell, Danson, who was considered the most likely nom of the three, was left out. Blame Sacha Baron Cohen? 
 
 Maniac (Netflix): Many thought the psychological dark comedy-drama was brilliant and unlike anything else on TV this year, so it was expected to get a nom in the movie-limited series category. Nope. Star Emma Stone was also left out for Maniac — the Globes snub which seemed to elicit the most Twitter upset this morning among the TV categories. Stone did receive a supporting nod for her work in the movie The Favourite, however. 
 
 Patrick Melrose (Showtime) was also skipped in the series limited series category, despite predictions, though that’s more understandable given the project’s somewhat lackluster reaction — all the praise was around the boozy performance of star Benedict Cumberbatch (who was of course nominated). Another Showtime snub in the movies-mini category: Benicio Del Toro, who was given strong odds to land a mention for his work in Escape at Dannemora. 
 
 Movie nominations snubs and surprises here. 
 
 Full list of Golden Globes nominations. ||||| CLOSE Academy President, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and Gil Robertson, President of African American Film Critics Association react to this years Oscar nominations which included no black actors in any category. USA TODAY 
 
 Samuel L. Jackson is a former Union soldier turned bounty hunter in 'The Hateful Eight.' (Photo: Weinstein Company) 
 
 What this year's Academy Awards nominations boast in well-reviewed blockbusters and A-list stars, they lack in diversity across most major categories. 
 
 For the second year in a row, all 20 slots in the lead and supporting acting categories went to white actors. Last year's "whiteout" (the first since 1998) sparked social media outrage and inspired the Twitter hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, which was revived Thursday in response to this year's picks. 
 
 "I thought I was watching a sequel," says Gil Robertson, president of the African American Film Critics Association. "It’s almost the exact same scenario, but more offensive. ... There needs to be changes across the board. It's like beating an old horse every year." 
 
 "The Academy Awards need to do a better job at acknowledging the diversity in Hollywood right now," Fandango managing editor Erik Davis says. "There are some great performances and films out there that are just being underlooked." 
 
 Among them: Idris Elba's menacing turn as an African warlord in Beasts of No Nation. The British actor earned Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for the role, and 21 out of 24 experts at awards prognisticator GoldDerby.com expected him to receive a supporting actor nomination. 
 
 Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight), Benicio del Toro (Sicario) and Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton) also missed out, though their films earned nominations in other categories (including a supporting actress nomination for Hateful's Jennifer Jason Leigh). 
 
 Earlier this awards season, Will Smith picked up a Golden Globe acting nomination for football drama Concussion, and Creed breakout Michael B. Jordan won a National Society of Film Critics Award for best actor. Still, both actors were snubbed by Oscar. 
 
 No women of color were represented in the acting fields, either. Although considered a long-shot contender, Tessa Thompson earned some critics' prizes this season for her understated work in Creed. Tangerine's transgender black stars Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor also received Independent Spirit Awards nominations for their performances, boosted by a history-making awards campaign from producers Mark and Jay Duplass. 
 
 Reaction to the lack of diversity came fast and furious on social media. 
 
 No love for Tangerine stars? Where's Will Smith? Why is the breakout star of 'Creed' a white dude? #Oscars still feel pretty....#Oscars2016 — Janet Mock (@janetmock) January 14, 2016 
 
 Why did the Oscars announce all the white nominees first? — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) January 14, 2016 
 
 All white Oscar nominations are another example of the lack of diversity in Hollywood. Like the Rocky Mts. The higher u climb the whiter. — Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) January 14, 2016 
 
 When are the black oscars? — adam pally (@adampally) January 14, 2016 
 
 The oversights may not seem surprising, considering the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: 94% white and 77% male, according to a 2012 Los Angeles Times study. Since becoming the Academy's first African-American president in 2013, Cheryl Boone Isaacs has made strides in shifting those demographics; more than 300 new members were invited to join the group last summer, many of whom are of different races, ages and ethnic backgrounds. 
 
 Speaking with USA TODAY, Isaacs expressed her frustration with this year's picks, calling them a "missed opportunity." 
 
 “I was disappointed," Isaacs says. "A lot of great work was done this year. However, we are not stopping. We are not deterred. We are moving forward, and will continue to move forward with a conversation and action. That needs to happen not just within the Academy, but the entire motion picture industry: to nurture, grow (and) promote talent, in front of or behind the camera." 
 
 This year, black filmmakers Ryan Coogler (Creed) and F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) were both considered on-the-bubble contenders, but were left out of the best director race. The only minority among the five male nominees is Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who won last year for Birdman. 
 
 The sole nominations Creed and Compton did receive were given to white men and women: Globe winner Sylvester Stallone, a best supporting actor hopeful for Creed, and Compton writers Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff, for best original screenplay. 
 
 "These were worthy movies," says Deadline awards columnist and film critic Pete Hammond. "Straight Outta Compton was very popular with Academy voters, I don’t know what happened there. People are going to talk about this, there’s no question." 
 
 Herman found the lack of diversity disheartening. "There should have been more people of color represented in the nominees," he said. "There would be no script without N.W.A — without Ice Cube and Eazy-E and Dr. Dre. We were just bringing to life a story that was already happening. Hopefully, we can continue that conversation and change things." 
 
 The shutout of minorities in major categories is reminiscent of last year's Oscar race, when Martin Luther King Jr. drama Selma was nominated for best picture, but director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo were passed over. 
 
 It's a step back from the 2014 Oscar nominations, when Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) earned nods for best director. Cuaron went on to win the prize, while McQueen shared in the best picture award for Slave. Chiwetel Ejiofor (Slave) and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) earned nods for actor and supporting actor, respectively, while Lupita Nyong'o won supporting actress for her breakout Slave performance. 
 
 The contenders were similarly more diverse in 2013, with acting nominations for Denzel Washington (Flight) and Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), and a director win for Ang Lee (Life of Pi). 
 
 Contributing: Bryan Alexander, Andrea Mandell andBrian Truitt 
 
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– Golden Globe nominations were announced Thursday, and along with a surprise frontrunner, there were a number of snubs. USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and Vanity Fair are among the outlets running them down: Ryan Gosling was not nominated as best actor for his role as Neil Armstrong in First Man—which was also not nominated as best drama. Black Panther was nominated for best drama, but stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan were denied best actor and best supporting actor nods. Atlanta, Donald Glover's FX series, won best comedy series at last year's Golden Globes, but wasn't even nominated this year.