2:36pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
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George Clooney movie Up In The Air has received the most Golden Globe nominations, including Best Drama and Best Dramatic Actor for the star.
The recession drama received six nods, while the musical Nine ran second with five nominations, including Best Musical Or Comedy and acting slots for Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz and Marion Cotillard.
Meanwhile Brits Carey Mulligan, Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt and Colin Firth are all up for acting honours.
Firth - nominated for his performance in A Single Man - and Clooney are joined by Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart, Morgan Freeman for Invictus and Tobey Maguire for Brothers in the Best Dramatic Actor category.
Blunt's leading role in The Young Victoria, Mirren's portrayal of the imperious wife of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, and Mulligan's 1960s British teen in An Education won them nods for Best Dramatic Actress.
They are joined in the category by Gabourey Sidibe for Precious and Sandra Bullock for sporting drama The Blind Side.
Other picks for Best Drama were the space fantasy Avatar, Iraq war tale The Hurt Locker, Second World War saga Inglourious Basterds and the Harlem drama Precious.
Also competing for Best Musical Or Comedy are the romance (500) Days Of Summer, The Hangover and two Meryl Streep films, It's Complicated and Julie And Julia.
Streep had two nominations for Best Musical Or Comedy Actress, as chef Julia Child in Julie And Julia and a woman in an affair with her ex-husband in It's Complicated.
The 67th annual Globes will be handed out on January 17, six days before nomination voting closes for the Oscars.
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