The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced the nominations for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards Thursday morning.

Receiving nominations under the category of Best Motion Picture and Best Screenplay is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the story of a man (Brad Pitt) who ages backwards. Pitt also picked up a nomination for Best Performance for his role in the movie, along with Best Director candidate David Fincher and Original Score composer Alexandre Desplat.

“Frost/Nixon,” a retelling of the interviews after the Watergate scandal between former president Richard Nixon and talk show host David Frost seems just as promising, as the film picked up a Best Picture nomination and actor Frank Langella received one for Best Performance for his role as President Nixon. Already familiar to the Golden Globe, director Ron Howard and composer Hans Zimmer also received nominations.

Meryl Streep was nominated for best actress for "Doubt" and best actress (musical or comedy) for "Mamma Mia!," her 22nd and 23rd career Globe nominations (she's won six awards), and Kate Winslet was nominated for best actress (drama) for "Revolutionary Road" and best supporting actress for "The Reader," her sixth and seventh career Globe nominations. She never succeeded in actually wining one.

Besides Streep, "Doubt" had three other acting nominations, in supporting categories for Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.

As far as the single nominations are concerned, Anne Hathaway got a best actress Golden Globe nomination for the drama “Rachel Getting Married.” "I was asleep and my mother actually called at the same moment as my publicist, and I answered my house phone because I don't get great cell reception at my house, and so he told me," she told People Magazine.
Apart from Hathaway and Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie is also nominated in the best actress category for her role in “Changling.”

In the best actor competition, Brad Pitt is joined by Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon." The others are Leonardo DiCaprio for the domestic drama "Revolutionary Road," Sean Penn for the Harvey Milk saga "Milk" and Mickey Rourke for the sports-comeback tale "The Wrestler."

The revelation of this competition is definitely HBO. Premium cable channel HBO seized the most recognition of any network in the Golden Globes' television race on Thursday with 22 nominations in all, led by five nods for the new psychiatric drama series "In Treatment."

This show was the most nominated TV program of all with five nods, including a best actor bid for Irish star Gabriel Byrne for playing a brooding psychotherapist as troubled as many of his patients.

The Globes are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of about 90 reporters for overseas outlets. Oscar nominees are selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a collection of about 6,000 filmmakers, actors and other industry professionals. Nevertheless the Globes traditionally help sort out the potential Oscar field.
The awards will be handed out on Sunday, January 11 and will be telecast live on NBC at 8 PM ET.