Up In The Air soared above the rest of the pack in terms of Golden Globe Award nominations in the announcement earlier today.
Jason Reitman's recession-themed tale is in the running for six awards, including best drama, best screenwriter and best director. Actors George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick are also up for acting awards for their roles in the film about a corporate downsizing executive who faces being grounded.
Musical Nine was second in terms of nominations scored, notching up five, including best musical/comedy and acting nods for Penelope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis.
James Cameron's 3D extravaganza Avatar also made a strong showing, with four nominations, including best drama and best director.
Duking it out alongside Avatar and Up In The Air for best drama are Sundance winner Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq exploration The Hurt Locker and Quentin Tarantino's World War II film Inglourious Basterds.
Elsewhere, Sandra Bullock showed she's firmly back on the radar with two acting nominations for her roles in American football drama The Blind Side and comedy The Proposal.
The Hangover, (500) Days Of Summer, Julie & Julia and It's Complicated will stand up against Nine for best musical or comedy, while Meryl Streep will compete agasinst herself for acting honours, with nominations for both Julie & Julia and It's Complicated.
Matt Damon also pulled a double nomination - for comedy acting in Steven Soderbergh's whistleblower comedy drama The Informant! and his supporting role in South African rugby flick Invictus.
The best actress in a drama section is dominated by Brits, with rising star Carey Mulligan (for coming-of-age tale An Eduation), Emily Blunt (as the queen in The Young Victoria) and veteran Helen Mirren (for her role as the wife of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station) all in the running alongside Bullock and Gabourney Sidibe, who has got to be considered the front runner after already picking up several roles for her starring part in Precious.
Colin Firth will fly the British flag in the drama acting category, for his role as a college professor coming to terms with the loss of his long-term boyfriend in A Single Man. He'll face off against Clooney, Jeff Bridges (for his turn as a heavy-drinking country singer in Crazy Heart), Morgan Freeman (for the role of Nelson Mandela in Invictus) and Tobey Maguire (for his portrayal of a PoW in Brothers).
Fighting it out for the comedy/musical female acting gongs alongside Streep's double showing and Bullock are Marion Cotillard (Nine) and Julia Roberts (Duplicity). Day-Lewis and Damon, meanwhile, face competition Robert Downey Jr (Sherlock Holmes) and first-time nominees Joseph Gordon-Levitt (for quirky rom-com (500) Days Of Summer) and Michael Stuhlbarg (who plays the lynchpin of Coen Brother's comedy A Serious Man).
Full nominations are below:
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Up In The Air
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Drama
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based On The Novel
Push By Sapphire
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up In The Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Tobey Maguire - Brothers
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Comedy Or
Musical
Sandra Bullock - The Proposal
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Julia Roberts - Duplicity
Meryl Streep - It's Complicated
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Comedy
Or Musical
Matt Damon - The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - (500) Days Of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
Best Animated Feature Film
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess And The Frog
Up
Best Foreign Language Film
Baaria (Italy)
Broken Embraces (Spain)
The Maid (La Nana)(Chile)
A Prophet (Un Prophete)(France)
The White Ribbon
(Das Weisse Band - Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte)(Germany)
Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A
Motion Picture
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air
Monique - Precious: Based On The Novel
Push By Sapphire
Julianne Moore - A Single Man
Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A
Motion Picture
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Best Director - Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Nancy Meyers - It's Complicated
Jason Reitman - Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino - Up
Marvin Hamlisch - The Informant!
James Horner - Avatar
Abel Korzeniowski - A Single Man
Karen O,
Carter Burwell - Where The Wild Things Are
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Cinema Italiano - Nine -
Music & Lyrics By: Maury Yeston
I Want To Come Home - Everybody's Fine -
Music & Lyrics By: Paul Mccartney
I Will See You - Avatar -
Music By: James Horner, Simon Franglen;
Lyrics By: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell
The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart) - Crazy
Heart -
Music & Lyrics By: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
Winter - Brothers - Music By: U2; Lyrics By: Bono
