"La La Land" leads Golden Globe nominations

"La La Land", a musical about two aspiring artistes finding romance in Hollywood, is leading the Golden Globe Awards nominations while India-Australia set drama "Lion" bagged four nods, including the best supporting actor for Dev Patel.
Writer-director Damien Chazelle's ode to classic Hollywood musicals, "La La Land," won seven nods in all, including for its lead pair Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the comedy or musical categories.
Chazelle earned nominations for best director and best screenplay.
"La La Land" is facing competition from "20th Century Women", superhero drama "Deadpool", Meryl Streep-starrer "Florence Foster Jenkins" and "Sing Street" and "Moonlight" in the best comedy/musical film at the Golden Globes.

Coming-of-age drama "Moonlight" scored six nods, including directing and screenplay for Barry Jenkins and best supporting nominations for Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali.
Both "La La Land" and "Moonlight" have emerged as awards favourites and if the Globe nominations are an indication, they are expected to be a front-runner at the Oscars too.

"Lion", a moving true story about an Indian man finding his lost family through the help of Google map, also cemented its position in the Oscar race by earning four nods.
Patel will be pitted against Ali ('Moonlight'), Jeff Bridges ('Hell or High Water'), Simon Helberg ('Florence Foster Jenkins') and Aaron Taylor Johnson ('Nocturnal Animals') in the best supporting actor category.

Kidman, who plays Patel's adoptive Australian mother, is nominated in the best supporting actress role. The movie has also earned best motion picture - drama and best original score nominations.
"Manchester By The Sea" and "Moonlight" were nominated for best movie, drama, along with "Hacksaw Ridge," "Hell or High Water" and "Lion."
"Manchester By The Sea," a drama about a family grappling with tragedy, earned five nominations.
Casey Affleck, Joel Edgerton, Andrew Garfield, Viggo Mortensen and Denzel Washington will vie for best actor in a motion picture drama while Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, Isabelle Huppert, Ruth Negga and Natalie Portman are competing for best actress in that category.

Amy Adams' performance as a linguist in sci-fi movie "Arrival" has earned her a nod in best actress in a drama category, in which she will be competing with Jessica Chastain ('Miss Sloane'), Ruth Negga ('Loving'), Natalie Portman in "Jackie" and French star Isabella Huppert for "Elle".
In the musical or comedy actress category, Stone will compete with Lily Collins ('Rules Don't Apply'), Meryl Streep ('Florence Foster Jenkins'), Annette Bening ('20th Century Women') and Hailee Steinfeld ('The Edge of Seventeen').
Gosling is pitted against fellow Canadian and namesake Ryan Reynolds ('Deadpool') in the best actor musical or comedy category. Others who have made it to the list are -- Collin Farrell for the "Lobster", Hugh Grant for "Florence Foster Jenkins" and Jonah Hill for "Wardogs".

"Deadpool" about a funny superhero, surprised everyone with its multiple nominations.
The 2017 ceremony, produced by Dick Clark productions and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will take place on January 8. Comedian Jimmy Fallon will host the ceremony.
Streep, a multiple Globe winner and this year's nominee, will receive the Cecil B DeMille award.