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| 12 Years A Slave leads Golden Globe nominations | |
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| 12 Years A Slave, directed by Britain's Steve McQueen, and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor is leading the nominations at this year's Golden Globe Awards. | 12 Years A Slave, directed by Britain's Steve McQueen, and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor is leading the nominations at this year's Golden Globe Awards. |
| The movie about a man forced to live as a slave picked up seven nominations, including film drama. | The movie about a man forced to live as a slave picked up seven nominations, including film drama. |
| McQueen will go head to head for the best director trophy with American Hustle's David O Russell, whose film also received seven nods. | McQueen will go head to head for the best director trophy with American Hustle's David O Russell, whose film also received seven nods. |
| Ejiofor will vie with fellow Brit Idris Elba for best actor in a film drama. | Ejiofor will vie with fellow Brit Idris Elba for best actor in a film drama. |
| Elba was nominated for his role as Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom. | |
| The British pair face stiff competition from Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, Hollywood royalty Robert Redford in All is Lost and Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips. | |
| Ejiofor and Elba are also rivals for the best actor in a TV movie or mini-series category for their respective performances in Dancing on the Edge and Luther. | |
| They will be competing against Behind the Candelabra leads Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and Al Pacino as the eponymous Phil Spector. | |
| 12 Years A Slave is joined by Captain Phillips, Gravity, Formula One drama Rush and Philomena in the best film drama category. | |
| It also picked up nominations for Ireland's Michael Fassbender in the best supporting actor category, Lupita Nyong'o for supporting actress, best screenplay and best score. | |
| American Hustle is shortlisted in the best film comedy or musical category, alongside Her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. | |
| Nebraska's Alexander Payne joins O Russell on the best director shortlist, alongside Gravity's Alfonso Cuaron, McQueen and fellow Briton Paul Greengrass for Captain Phillips. |