5 26 p.m. | Updated Tuesday's Republican National Convention schedule featured nominations, protests, keynotes and 3 Doors Down, and that was only the beginning.
The best female lead category features nominations for Annette Bening for 20th Century Women, Sasha Lane (American Honey), Ruth Negga (Loving), Natalie Portman (Jackie and Isabelle Huppertt for Paul Verhoeven's controversial drama Elle.
The votes are in for this month's Reading group, and after a close contest featuring nominations for more than a dozen of HG Wells's novels, not to mention a good number of short stories, Tono-Bungay has come out on top.
But the most whiplash-inducing line-up comes in the awkward Latin rock, urban or alternative album category — which features nominations for L.A. folk rockers La Santa Cecilia, Bay Area hip-hop act Los Rakas and indie vocalists Ile and Carla Morrison.
This year's figure of 20 nominated women is the lowest number of women to feature in nominations in the last six years.
In fairness to Lembit's new Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia, she's not an artist likely to feature in nominations here.
Thursday's Producers Guild of America feature film nominations provided a measure of clarity to the movies that might fill out the back end of the academy's best picture ballot.
The Globes were also good news for "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," whose best feature, comedy/musical nomination, coupled with its Actors Guild nomination for best ensemble, and some love for its star Judi Dench (and Maggie Smith at the Actors Guild), gives it a better-than-average shot for a best picture nod at the Oscars.
*"The Pianist," Focus Features, seven nominations, $3 million.
Actress Kate Winslet unveiled the shortlist today at the Bafta building in Piccadilly, London, which featured several nominations for Little Voice, including Michael Caine for best actor, after he was snubbed by the Oscars.
