Eddie Redmayne scoops second consecutive Golden Globe nomination

British actor Eddie Redmayne has been nominated for Best Actor at the 2016 Golden Globe awards, putting him on course to win the accolade for the second consecutive year.
The Oscar winner, who took the 2015 Best Actor Globe for The Theory of Everything, has scored his second nomination in a row after winning acclaim for his portrayal of one of the world’s first recipients of gender reassignment surgery in The Danish Girl.
He will compete against Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs) and Will Smith (Concussion).
Redmayne’s co-star Alicia Vikander scoops a nomination for Best Actress and she faces tough competition from Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, both for Carol, Brooklyn’s Saoirse Ronan and Brie Larson for Room.
Carol is named in the Best Motion Picture – Drama category alongside The Revenant, Room, Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road, and the musical or comedy nominees include The Big Short, Joy, The Martian, Spy and Trainwreck.
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence lands a nomination for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Joy and she will go up against Melissa McCarthy (Spy), Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van) and Lily Tomlin (Grandma).
The Big Short co-stars Christian Bale and Steve Carell will go head-to-head for the Best Actor – Musical or Comedy accolade alongside Matt Damon (The Martian), Al Pacino (Danny Collins) and Mark Ruffalo (Infinitely Polar Bear).
In TV, Empire, Game of Thrones, Mr. Robot, Narcos and Outlander are nominated for Best Drama Series, while Casual, Mozart in the Jungle, Orange is the New Black, Silicon Valley, Transparent and Veep are in the running for the comedy series prize.
Lady Gaga is nominated for Best Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie for her role in TV series American Horror Story: Hotel, and she will go up against actresses including Kirsten Dunst (Fargo), Felicity Huffman (American Crime) and Queen Latifah (Bessie).
Sam Smith’s James Bond theme Writing’s on the Wall, which featured in Spectre, is nominated for Best Original Song, going up against Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do from Fifty Shades of Grey, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again from Furious 7 and One Kind of Love from Beach Boys movie Love & Mercy.
Denzel Washington will be honoured for his career with the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
The nominations were announced by Angela Bassett, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dennis Quaid, and America Ferrera at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday (10Dec15).
The 73rd annual Golden Globes will be held at the same hotel on 10 January (16). Comedian Ricky Gervais returns for his fourth stint as host.

The full list of nominees is as follows:

Best Motion Picture – Drama:
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama:
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Will Smith – Concussion

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama:
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Rooney Mara – Carol
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy:
The Big Short
Joy
The Martian
Spy
Trainwreck

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy:
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Steve Carell – The Big Short
Matt Damon – The Martian
Al Pacino – Danny Collins
Mark Ruffalo – Infinitely Polar Bear

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy:
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy
Melissa McCarthy – Spy
Amy Schumer – Trainwreck
Maggie Smith – The Lady in the Van
Lily Tomlin – Grandma

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture:
Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation
Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon – 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone – Creed

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture:
Jane Fonda – Youth
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Helen Mirren – Trumbo
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs

Best Director:
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – The Revenant
Todd Haynes – Carol
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott – The Martian

Best Screenplay:
Emma Donoghue – Room
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay – The Big Short
Aaron Sorkin – Steve Jobs
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight

Best Original Score:
Carter Burwell – Carol
Alexandre Desplat – The Danish Girl
Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
Daniel Pemberton – Steve Jobs
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto – The Revenant

Best Original Song:
Love Me Like You Do – Fifty Shades of Grey
One Kind of Love – Love & Mercy
See You Again – Furious 7
Simple Song #3 – Youth
Writing’s on the Wall – Spectre

Best Animated Feature Film:
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Brand New Testament
The Club
The Fencer
Mustang
Son of Saul

Best TV Series – Drama:
Empire
Game of Thrones
Mr. Robot
Narcos
Outlander

Best Actor in a TV Series – Drama:
Jon Hamm – Mad Men
Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
Wagner Moura – Narcos
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan

Best Actress in a TV Series – Drama:
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
Viola Davis – How to Get Away with Murder
Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Taraji P. Henson – Empire
Robin Wright – House of Cards

Best TV Series – Comedy:
Casual
Mozart in the Jungle
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep

Best Actor in a TV Series – Comedy:
Aziz Ansari – Master of None
Gael Garcia Bernal – Mozart in the Jungle
Rob Lowe – The Grinder
Patrick Stewart – Blunt Talk
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent

Best Actress in a TV Series – Comedy:
Rachel Bloom – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Jamie Lee Curtis – Scream Queens
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin
Lily Tomlin – Grace and Frankie

Best TV Miniseries or Movie:
American Crime
American Horror Story: Hotel
Fargo
Flesh and Bone
Wolf Hall

Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie:
Idris Elba – Luther
Oscar Isaac – Show Me a Hero
David Oyelowo – Nightingale
Mark Rylance – Wolf Hall
Patrick Wilson – Fargo

Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie:
Kirsten Dunst – Fargo
Lady Gaga – American Horror Story: Hotel
Felicity Huffman – American Crime
Queen Latifah – Bessie
Sarah Hay – Flesh and Bone

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie:
Alan Cumming – The Good Wife
Damian Lewis – Wolf Hall
Ben Mendelsohn – Bloodline
Tobias Menzies – Outlander
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie:
Uzo Aduba – Orange is the New Black
Joanne Froggatt – Downton Abbey
Regina King – American Crime
Judith Light – Transparent
Maura Tierney – The Affair.