Irish actress Caitriona Balfe has been nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama award for the fourth year in a row in the list of the 2019 Golden Globes’ nominees.
Dublin-born Balfe plays Claire Fraser in the Starz drama series Outlander, for which she has won two People’s Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and an IFTA.
The other nominations include Elisabeth Moss for The Handmaids Tale, Sandra Oh for Killing Eve, Julia Roberts for Homecoming and Keri Russell in The Americans.
The period comedy-drama The Favourite, co-produced by Irish company Element Pictures, has also been nominated in the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category.
Also nominated in that category are Crazy Rich Asians, Mary Poppins Returns, Vice and Green Book. Olivia Colman, who stars in The Favourite, has been nominated for the best actress in a comedy or musical prize.
‘Black Panther’, ‘BlacKkKlansman’, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ and ‘A Star Is Born’ have all been nominated for the best drama motion picture award.
Bradley Cooper, Lucas Hedges, Willem Dafoe, Rami Malek and John David Washington will all be hoping to take home the best performance by an actor in a motion picture award, for which they are all nominated.
The nominations for best director are Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born, Alfonso Cuaron for Roma, Peter Farrelly for Green Book, Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman and Adam McKay for Vice.
The 2019 Golden Globes, which will be hosted by Killing Eve star Sandra Oh and Brooklyn Nine-Nine comedian Andy Samberg, will take place in Los Angeles on January 6.
