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. ||||| From left, Ethan Hawke stars in First Reformed, KiKi Layne and Stephan James in If Beale Street Could Talk, Sam Elliott in A Star is Born. 
 
 Each year, the roughly 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association both confirm and upend various awards-season narratives with their Golden Globe nominations. This year was no different. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest snubs and surprises from this morning’s nominations. 
 
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 Sam Elliott’s Momentum Slows? 
 
 The supporting-actor category looks much as we expected it to this morning, except for one glaring omission: where is Sam Elliott for his rich, tearful work in the otherwise generously nominated A Star Is Born? Elliott has long been thought of—in some circles, anyway—as the supporting-actor front-runner. But just a week after winning the prize from the National Board of Review, Elliott finds himself without a nomination at the pre-prom. No disrespect to the fellow who likely snatched his nod, BlacKkKlansman’s Adam Driver—but this is a pretty big upset for a campaign that had been looking a lot sturdier than many other hopefuls.’ Ah, well; we’ll just chalk it up to the Hollywood Foreign Press being weird, as we do with everything Golden Globes-related every year. 
 
 Mary Poppins’s Magic Burns Out 
 
 Mary Poppins Returns was richly rewarded Thursday: for Emily Blunt’s and (surprisingly?) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s lead performances, for best musical or comedy, and for Marc Shaiman’s score. But curiously, especially given that last nomination, the sequel could not secure a spot in the best-original-song category. Perhaps all the film’s songs bled together into one pleasant blur, or maybe it was just up against competition that proved too tough: who do you say no to in that category to make room for Mary? Annie Lennox? Lady Gaga? Dolly Parton?? Maybe Poppins could have taken Boy Erased’s spot, but “Revelation” is a gorgeous song, one that closes out an Important Issue movie. Whatever the reason for the snub, Disney’s London skies are looking a little dimmer this morning. 
 
 The Ethan Hawke-aissance May Not Be Televised 
 
 He’s won some critics’ awards, yet First Reformed star Ethan Hawke couldn’t land a nomination for best actor in a drama—even though he didn’t even have to compete with Viggo Mortensen or Christian Bale, who are in the comedy/musical category. That may mark a serious impediment to the rest of his awards-season campaign, despite his film being easily one of the best-reviewed of the year. Maybe the movie is too small, too alienating for the H.F.P.A. Or maybe they loved Lucas Hedges in Boy Erased too much. Or maybe if Rami Malek and Bradley Cooper had been run in musical/comedy, where they belong, Hawke would have gotten what’s owed to him. In any case, the First Reformed folks better start praying to keep Hawke in the hunt. 
 
 Peter Farrelly and Adam McKay Spoil Everything 
 
 Well, they’re not spoiling everything. But the respective directors of Green Book and Vice are taking up spots that could have been occupied by The Favourite’s Yorgos Lanthimos, If Beale Street Could Talk’s Barry Jenkins, or Can You Ever Forgive Me?’s Marielle Heller. Farrelly and McKay, two older comedy guys working more serious than usual, are pretty dull, mainstream choices in a year that offered exciting and different options. Heller’s nomination would have been particularly heartening, given that the Globes have only had a handful of female-director nominees in the last few decades, and Can You Ever Forgive Me?—nominated for two major acting prizes—is one of the strongest titles of the year. But, no. Instead, the H.F.P.A. opted for Farrelly’s incredibly straightforward direction and McKay’s messy collage of a reviled vice president. We’ll forgive them someday, but not today. 
 
 _If Beale Street Could Sing 
 
 Craft categories don’t frequently lend themselves to surprises—partially because they aren’t as closely watched; partially because the right answers are often predictable—but it was admittedly strange not to see Nicholas Britell, who wrote the lush, jazzy score for If Beale Street Could Talk, missing among the nominees this morning. In addition to having some of the best music, that movie had some of the most music—it seems impossible that voters didn’t notice it. Other great scores that are missing, if not quite snubbed, include Nate Heller’s marvelous work for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and David Lang for Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Wildlife. 
 
 Cold War Gets Iced Out 
 
 In the foreign-language-film category, it was a slight shock not to see Pawel Pawlikowski’s beloved Cold War in the running. Pawlikowski’s last film, Ida, was a nominee for this award in 2015, eventually going on to win the trophy in this category at the Academy Awards. Cold War is the better movie, but it likely lost its slot to Roma, which, by the H.F.P.A.’s rules, was ineligible to compete in the best-drama category—where it might otherwise have practically been guaranteed a nomination. 
 
 Television 
 
 Stars Are Blindsided 
 
 The Globes are typically the awards most likely to present a nomination to anyone who sounds famous doing something on TV—or are they? Because in a strange new trend, stars Al Pacino and Kevin Costner weren’t nominated for their roles slumming it on the boob tube—even though Costner’s Yellowstone has been a ratings success on the newly rebranded Paramount Network. EGOT king John Legend also failed to sway the H.F.P.A. for his much-lauded turn as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar Live, and even Robin Wright’s complex tightrope act behind the scenes of a House of Cards in upheaval didn't impress Globes voters. 
 
 An Actor Shake-Up 
 
 Julia Roberts, for her part, earned a nomination for Homecoming. But so did her 24-year-old breakout co-star, Stephan James—beating out Costner to enter a bizarre, but fascinating category for best actor in a drama series. Edging out worthies like Bob Odenkirk, Sterling K. Brown, Jeffrey Wright, and Globes perennial favorite Liev Schreiber are James, Jason Bateman, Emmy winner Matthew Rhys, and two more big surprises: Billy Porter from FX's queer ballroom drama Pose, and Richard Madden from Netflix's word-of-mouth hit Bodyguard. 
 
 The H.F.P.A. Doesn’t Like Shows That Age 
 
 Several veteran series in contention at the Emmys—and on critics’ best-of lists—failed to draw the H.F.P.A.’s attention. Atlanta, which won outstanding comedy series in 2017, wasn't even nominated in the category for its second season. Neither were the later seasons of This Is Us, Westworld, and The Handmaid’s Tale, reflecting the Globes’ interest in what’s up and coming. 
 
 Broadcast Isn’t Dead 
 
 Apparently, the H.F.P.A. also has a thing for network comedies. In the category for best actress in a comedy, three out of the five actresses nominated come from sitcoms—Debra Messing, Candice Bergen, and Kristen Bell. Who says we have to let the old ways die? 
 
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 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. 
 
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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.