- Colin Firth nominated for best actor in the movie while Helena Bonham Carter is up for best supporting actress
- The Fighter and Facebook movie The Social Network just behind The King's Speech with six nominations each
- Leonardo DiCaprio film Inception and Natalie Portman movie The Black Swan gets in with five bids
- Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel and Blair Underwood announce nominations list
Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter portray George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in The King's Speech and yesterday the film ruled over Hollywood by topping the list of Golden Globe nominations.
Firth, 50, has already emerged as the awards season front- runner with his performance as a monarch coping with a crippling stammer.
He has so far won six major acting prizes from American critics groups and the best actor statuette from the British Independent Film Awards.
Firth's best dramatic actor rivals include James Franco for 127 Hours, Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine, Jesse Eisenberg for The Social network and Mark Wahlberg for The Fighter.
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Unveiled: Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, centre, and Blair Underwood helped announce the Golden Globe 2011 nominations today at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles
Moment of truth: The stars read out the list, with the King's Speech, The Social Network and Inception leading the way in the major categories
The King's Speech took seven nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the Globes.
Films The Social Network and The Fighter each took six nominations.
Tom Hooper the British-born, London-based , director of The King's Speech was woken in his hotel room in Melbourne with news his picture had garnered the most Globe nominations including best director for him.
He noted that the film's timeless themes of triumph over adversity and friendship were possibly the reasons it has become such a popular film.
The King's Speech has opened in a handful of cinemas in America but goes on much wider release there over the Christmas holidays. It opens in the UK on January 7.
The sci-fi thriller Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio, Black Swan with Natalie Portman as a psychotic ballerina and The Kids Are Alright with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a lesbian couple at the centre of a family drama all received four nominations.
Front-runner: British film The King's Speech, starring Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mother and Colin Firth as George VI, was nominated for seven Golden Globe nominations including best film drama
The best actress category was one of the most competitive Golden Globe segments with Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams and Jennifer Lawrence vying for the best dramatic actress trophy.
The Globes split their awards along drama and comedy-musical lines. That allowed Angelina Jolie to snag a nomination in the best comedy or musical best actress section for her performance in The Tourist which has been viewed by many as not one of her finest on-screen roles.
Her leading man Johnny Depp found himself on the comedy-musical line-up where he was nominated twice for roles in The Tourist and and Alice in Wonderland.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore were nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy for The Kids Are Alright and are seen as the strongest contenders.
They were joined by Anne Hathaway in Love and other Drugs, and fast-rising American actress Emma Stone.
The five best drama nominees - The King's Speech, The Social Network, about the creation of Facebook, The Fighter - in which Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale play brothers who box - and Inception - are all expected to win places on the Oscar nominations list next month.
However, not all of the movies in the Golden Globes comedy or musical category are going to make the Oscar cut.
The Kids Are Alright will endure, and deservedly so, but the remainder of the musical- comedy list represents slim pickings.
Critical acclaim: Facebook film The Social Network followed close behind with six nods, seen here Jesse Eisenberg, left, and Joseph Mazzello
The incredibly camp musical Burlesque with Cher, The Tourist and Alice in Wonderland and the comedy-drama Red will not go on to garner Academy Award nominations.
Best supporting film actor was another strong section with Christian Bale nominated for The Fighter, Michael Douglas for Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps, Andrew Garfield, the new screen Spider-Man ,for The Social Network, Jeremy Renner for The Town and Rush for The King's Speech.
The King's Speech is set around the Abdication Crisis but it looks at the story by showing how George VI coped with his speech impediment by working with a speech therapist played Geoffrey Rush, who was nominated for best supporting actor today along with Bonham Carter whose portrait of the Queen Mother earned her a best supporting actress citation.
George VI ascended to the throne after his brother Edward VIII abdicated ,after less than a year, to marry twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.
Firth, who was travelling back from the Far East today said he was 'very pleased' that The King's Speech was finding recognition in America.
'I play a man who wasn't groomed for the throne ; he came from a family which can only be described as dysfunctional.
Science-fiction: Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page, received five nominations
'He had harsh schooling, he was very lonely ,his parents were distant and remote, he was beaten for being left-handed and he stammered.Then he became king', Firth said.
Helen Mirren won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for her portaryal of George VI's daughter in The Queen.
The Golden Globes also cover television and there was a healthy line-up of British talent vying for awards in various categories.
In the best actress in a TV mini-series of made-for-TV-film Judi Dench was mentioned for Return To Cranford, Hayley Atwell for Pillars of the Earth and Romola Garai for Emma.
Ian McShane was listed in the best mini series actor list for Pillars of the Earth as was Idris Elba for the BBC police drama Luther.
Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald was nominated in the best supporting tv actress category for her role in the HBO series Boardwalk.
Toy Story 3 was nominated in the best animated film category along with The Illusionist, How To Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me and Tangled.
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