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',' 'True Detective' Lead TV Golden Globe Nominees

12.11.2014

Two Emmy-winning limited series - FX's Fargo and HBO's True Detective - led the TV series nominations for the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards, to be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 11, on NBC at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out five nominations to Fargo - including best actor in a TV movie or mini-series nods to and - and four to True Detective. Thornton and Freeman will go head to head with two other movie stars - Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson - in that category. A fifth movie star, Mark Ruffalo, scored the fifth nod for his performance in HBO's AIDS drama The Normal Heart.

Putting True Detective in the mini-series category, along with the end of AMC's Breaking Bad, opened up the TV drama category a bit, with Showtime's new series, The Affair, scoring three nominations for best TV drama, best actor in a TV drama for Dominic West (who was repeatedly passed over for HBO's The Wire) and best actress in a TV drama for .

Also scoring three nominations were CBS' , including best TV drama, Netflix's House of Cards and Orange is the New Black in the best drama and best comedy categories, respectively; and HBO's two minis, The Normal Heart and Olive Kitteridge, starring Frances McDormand as a woman facing her own aging.

Overall, HBO scored the most nominations with 15, followed by Showtime with 9, FX with 8, Netflix with 7 and CBS with 4. Amazon Instant Video came in with two, tying The CW, Starz and PBS. This is the first time The CW has been nominated for a Golden Globe since the network launched in 2006. Notably, ABC and NBC only had one nomination each, tying Cinemax with Clive Owen's nomination in The Knick, and Sundance TV, with Maggie Gyllenhaal's nomination for An Honorable Woman.Â

On the drama side, two major dramas were left out: AMC's Mad Men, which aired the first half of its last season this year, and Showtime's Homeland, which has been applauded for its creative reboot in season four.Â

The five TV drama nominees are: Showtime's The Affair, CBS' The Good Wife, PBS' , HBO's Game of Thrones and Netflix's House of Cards.

Nominees for best actor in a TV drama were Owen, West, House of Cards' Kevin Spacey, Ray Donovan's Liev Schreiber, and multiple Emmy winner James Spader for NBC's The Blacklist, the broadcast net's only nomination.Â

Nominees for best actress in a TV drama were Homeland's , a four-time Golden Globe winner; last year's winner House of Cards' ; 2010's winner The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies and new entry for How to Get Away with Murder.

On the comedy side, three major shows were shut out: ABC's five-time Emmy winner Modern Family, CBS' The Big Theory and last year's winner, Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine.Â

Four out of five of this year's comedy nominees feature women in prominent roles and are directed by women, while one barely includes women: HBO's Girls, The CW's Jane the Virgin, Netflix's Orange is the New Black, Amazon's Transparent and HBO's Silicon Valley.Â

Accordingly, nominees for best actress in a comedy were Girls' Lena Dunham; Orange is the New Black's Taylor Schilling; Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez, the only actor or actress from a broadcast comedy to garner a nomination; Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who's won the Emmy three times for this role and been nominated once for a Golden Globe; and Nurse Jackie's , who won the Emmy for this part in 2010.

Nominees for best actor in a comedy are Louie's Louie C.K, House of Lies' Don Cheadle, Derek's Ricky Gervais, Shameless' William H. Macy and Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor. Nominees for best TV mini-series were HBO's The Normal Heart, HBO's True Detective, HBO's Olive Kitteridge, FX's Fargo and Starz' The Missing. Left out of this category was FX's American Horror Story: Freak Show, although both and Kathy Bates are nominated as best actress in a mini-series and best supporting actress in a series, mini-series or made-for-TV movie, respectively.

Image courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter.Â