Golden Globe nominees listed

American Hustle and 12 Years A Slave are ahead of the pack in the nominations list for this year's Golden Globe Awards, which were announced in Beverly Hills this morning. Each has seven nominations in what is widely considered to be America's most important awards event prior to the Oscars, increasing the chance that they will go head to head when the big day comes.

Those nominations in full:-

Best Motion Picture — Drama

• 12 Years A Slave
• Captain Phillips
• Gravity
• Philomena
• Rush

Best Motion Picture — Comedy Or Musical

• American Hustle
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nebraska
• The Wolf Of Wall Street

Best Director — Motion Picture

• Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
• Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
• Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
• Alexander Payne, Nebraska
• David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
• Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
• Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
• Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
• Sandra Bullock, Gravity
• Judi Dench, Philomena
• Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
• Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

• Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
• Daniel Brühl, Rush
• Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
• Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
• Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

• Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
• Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
• Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
• Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
• June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Comedy Or Musical

• Christian Bale, American Hustle
• Bruce Dern, Nebraska
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf Of Wall Street
• Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Comedy Or Musical

• Amy Adams, American Hustle
• Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
• Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
• Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture

• 12 Years A Slave, John Ridley
• American Hustle, Eric Singer, David O. Russell
• Her, Spike Jonze
• Nebraska, Bob Nelson
• Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

Best Foreign Language Film

• Blue Is The Warmest Colour
• The Great Beauty
• The Hunt
• The Past
• The Wind Rises

Best Animated Film

• The Croods
• Despicable Me 2
• Frozen

Best Original Song — Motion Picture

• “Atlas,” Catching Fire
• “Let It Go,” Frozen
• “Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
• “Please, Mr. Kennedy,” Inside Llewyn Davis
• “Sweeter Than Fiction,” One Chance

Best Original Score — Motion Picture

• All Is Lost
• Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
• 12 Years A Slave
• The Book Thief
• Gravity

Cecil B. DeMille Award

• Woody Allen