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The 69th Golden Globes puts silent movie "The Artist" on the spotlight by giving it six nods including the category Best Film Comedy or Musical. Coming in second place with five nominations is "The Descendants", starring George Clooney who receives the Best Actor nomination for the Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama.

Clooney's mate, Brad Pitt, is going to give the actor a competition in the same category for his role as baseball general manager Billy Beane in "Moneyball", which is pocketing four nominations. Clooney has been nominated eight times before and won twice while Pitt has been nominated four times and won once.

Meanwhile, the Best Actress in Drama category has Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady" and Rooney Mara for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" among others. Streep has won seven times out of 25 nominations while Mara is celebrating her first nomination.

The Golden Globe Awards, which will announce the winners on January 15, 2012 in a live broadcast by NBC, give good prediction of the nominees of the Academy Awards which will be held in February.

Nomination list in television.

Best Drama

• "The Descendants"
• "The Help"
• "Hugo"
• "The Ides of March"
• "Moneyball"
• "War Horse"

• "50/50"
• "The Artist"
• "Bridesmaids"
• "Midnight in Paris"
• "My Week with Marilyn"

• Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs"
• Viola Davis, "The Help"
• Rooney Mara, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
• Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
• Tilda Swinton, "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

• Jodie Foster, "Carnage"
• Charlize Theron, "Young Adult"
• Kristen Wiig, "Bridesmaids"
• Michelle Williams, "My Week With Marilyn"
• Kate Winslet, "Carnage"

• Shailene Woodley, "The Descendants"
• Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
• Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs"
• Berenice Bejo, "The Artist"
• Jessica Chastain, "The Help"

• George Clooney, "The Descendants"
• Brad Pitt, "Moneyball"
• Ryan Gosling, "The Ides of March"
• Michael Fassbender, "Shame"
• Leonardo DiCaprio, "J. Edgar"

• Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
• Brendan Gleeson, "The Guard"
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "50/50"
• Ryan Gosling, "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
• Owen Wilson, "Midnight in Paris"

• Kenneth Branagh, "My Week With Marilyn"
• Albert Brooks, "Drive"
• Jonah Hill, "Moneyball"
• Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"
• Viggo Mortensen, "A Dangerous Method"

• Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
• George Clooney, "The Ides of March"
• Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
• Alexander Payne, "The Descendants"
• Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"

• "Arthur Christmas"
• "Cars 2"
• "Rango"
• "Puss in Boots"
• "Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, The Tintin 2"

• "The Flowers of War"
• "In the Land of Blood and Honey"
• "The Kid With a Bike"
• "A Separation"
• "The Skin I Live In"

• Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
• Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
• Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Kaui Hart Hemmings, "The Descendants"
• Steve Zallian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin, Michael Lewis, "Moneyball"
• George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, "The Ides of March"

• Ludovic Bource, "The Artist"
• Abel Korzeniowski, "W.E."
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
• Howard Shore, "Hugo"
• John Williams, "War Horse"

• "Hello Hello", "Gnomeo and Juliet"
• "The Keeper", "Machine Gun Preacher"
• "Lay Your Head Down", "Albert Nobbs"
• "The Living Proof", "The Help"
• "Masterpiece", "W.E."