And the nominees are.....

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Globe Noms Slight SF&F

Science fiction and fantasy movies fared poorly in the Golden Globe nominations announced Dec. 14 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but SF&F TV shows did a little better.

NBC's new hit show Heroes won a nod for best television series, drama, joining returning nominee Lost, from ABC. Lost's Evangeline Lilly and Patricia Arquette, star of NBC's Medium, were nominated for best performance by an actress in a drama television series, and Heroes newcomer Masi Oka got a nomination for best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, miniseries or motion picture made for television.

In the film category, Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Pan's Labyrinth received a nod for best foreign-language film.

Renee Zellweger got a nomination for best performance by an actress in a motion picture, comedy or musical, for her starring role in the upcoming fantasy-tinged biopic Miss Potter. Johnny Depp was nominatd for best performance by an actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical, for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, along with Will Ferrell for Stranger Than Fiction.

The nominees for best animated feature film included Cars, Happy Feet and Monster House. Prince's "The Song of the Heart," from Happy Feet, also was nominated for best original song, motion picture.

Clint Mansell (The Fountain) and Hans Zimmer (The Da Vinci Code) both received nominations for best original score, motion picture.

Golden Globe winners will be named in a ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 15, 2007.

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Lost, Galactica Get WGA Nods

ABC's hit SF series Lost got two 2007 nominations for Writers Guild of America television awards, and SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica received one.

Lost received a nomination for best dramatic series, and the episode "Two for the Road," written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Christina M. Kim, received a separate nomination for episodic drama. Lost is written by J.J. Abrams, Monica Owusu-Breen, Carlton Cuse, Leonard d---, Drew Goddard, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Adam Horowitz, Dawn Lambersten Kelly, Christina Kim, Edward Kitsis, Damon Lindelof, Steven Maeda, Jeff Pinkner, Matt Ragghianti, Elizabeth Sarnoff and Alison Schapker.

The two-part Battlestar Galactica episode "Occupation/Precipice," written by Ronald D. Moore, got a nod for best episodic drama.

NBC's Heroes, meanwhile, received a nomination for best new series for its writing staff, which includes Jesse Alexander, Adam Armus, Natalie Chaidez, Aron Eli Coleite, Kay Foster, Bryan Fuller, Michael J. Green, Tim Kring, Jeph Loeb and Joe Pokaski.

Among the other nominations, "The End of the Whole Mess," an episode of TNT's Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King limited series, got a nod for best episodic drama; the teleplay was by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the short story by King.

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