Paramount Gets 15 Noms with Babel, Dreamgirls,
Iwo Jima and Flags
Paramount Motion Pictures Group today received
15 nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the 64th
Annual Golden Globe Awards – more than any other studio and a record
for Paramount.
Babel, the first film to be green-lighted by Paramount
Vantage, topped all films with seven nominations; Dreamgirls,
produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, followed with five
nominations; and the co-productions (with Warner Bros.) Flags of
Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima received
one and two nominations respectively.
Paramount is experiencing an awards-season resurgence not seen since the
studio received 13 nominations in 1999. Back then, The Truman Show
earned six Golden Globe nominations and Saving Private Ryan,
a DreamWorks co-production, took five. Saving Private Ryan
went on to win for Best Picture-Drama and Best Director (Steven Spielberg),
and The Truman Show took home three Golden Globes for Best
Actor (Jim Carrey), Best Supporting Actor (Ed Harris) and Best Original
Score.
Eddie Murphy had this to say on the Dreamgirls nominations:
“It’s exciting and flattering that the Hollywood Foreign Press
has acknowledged all the hard work that went in to Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls.
I am happily humbled and honored.”
Beyonce Knowles followed with:
"Being a part of Dreamgirls, and working with a director
as wonderful as Bill Condon, was an opportunity of a lifetime for me, enabling
me to grow as an actress. To be nominated in two categories (Best Performance
by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy and Best Original
Song – Motion Picture) by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association
is an honor that I graciously accept. I am so happy for the accolades being
given to the movie as a whole. I was thrilled to work with Oscar winner,
Jamie Foxx, and I am happy to share these nominations with fellow nominees
Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy."
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