Actor Ewan McGregor has been nominated for one of Hollywood's most prestigious awards, the Golden Globe.
The short lists for the annual awards – usually seen as a indicator for the Academy Awards – have Steven Spielberg's Lincoln leading nominations with seven, including best drama, best director for Spielberg and acting nods for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
McGregor, short-listed for the best actor in a musical or comedy film for his role in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, is joined by fellow Brit Damian Lewis, short- listed for his portrayal of Nicholas Brody in Homeland. Lewis, who also appeared in Band of Brothers, is nominated in the best actor in a television drama series category alongside Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Boardwalk Empire's Steve Buscemi.
His Homeland co-star, Claire Danes, faces competition from Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery for best actress in a TV drama series. Downton is also nominated for the best TVdrama series along with US shows including Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad and Homeland.
The BBC's Episodes is nominated for best TV comedy series.
Dame Helen Mirren is shortlisted for best actress in a dramatic film for Hitchcock, while Rachel Weisz is nominated for The Deep Blue Sea.
Singer Adele's James Bond theme, Skyfall, is nominated for best original song in a motion picture. The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be held in Los Angeles on January 13.
It was also revealed that Touch The Sky, from the animated film Brave, sung by Scottish singer Julie Fowlis and written by Alex Mandel, is in the long list for the Oscars Best Song category.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article