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Dec 10, 2015 5:44 PM UTC  Rooney Mara, left and Cate Blanchett at Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 16, 2015 in New York City. Rooney Mara, left and Cate Blanchett at Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 16, 2015 in New York City.Michael Stewart—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 10, 2015 5:44 PM UTC The [nominations](http://time.com/4144233/2016-golden-globes-nominees/) for the 73rd annual Golden Globes were announced Thursday morning, ushering in awards season. While the Globes, which take place on Jan. 10, 2016, are often looked to as an indicator of who might take home an Oscar come February, they also tend to honor a wider variety of films than the Academy does—so, in the spirit of fist-raising and head-cocking, here are some of the biggest, strangest, and most pleasant surprises: **There were the shocker snubs, the bummer snubs and the make-room-for-comedy snubs:** There were a handful of actors whose absence from the list of nominations—especially given that the Globes recognizes 10 lead actors—seemed conspicuous. Chief among them: Charlotte Rampling for _45 Years_ and Johnny Depp for _Black Mass_. Others, like the lack of recognition of Kristen Stewart for _Clouds of Sils Maria_ and the young Jacob Tremblay for _Room_, are less surprising but still disappointing given the strength of the actors’ performances. On the Best Picture front, _Brooklyn_, _Bridge of Spies_ and _The Hateful Eight_ were absent from the pack. But the fact that the Globes splits its 10 nominations into one category for drama and another for comedy or musical means that the spots these films will probably snag at the Oscar went to (deserving) comedies like _Trainwreck_ and _Spy._ **The line between leading and supporting is highly malleable:** Perhaps the most interesting choices came not in _who_ got nominated but in _which categories_ they were nominated for. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association seems to be the first awards-giving body to acknowledge that Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara were co-leads in _Carol_, throwing a nod to both of them in the Best Actress category rather than recognizing Mara in the Supporting Actress race. It means that—unlike in the scenario in which Blanchett is nominated for lead and Mara for supporting—both can’t win. But it also feels like the nomination Mara deserves. The same goes for Alicia Vikander, whose name has come up frequently in conversations about the supporting actress race, though her turn opposite Eddie Redmayne in _The Danish Girl_ was arguably as much a leading role as his. Vikander was also the only actor to be nominated for two awards—she also received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her very human performance as an android in _Ex Machina_—suggesting that it’s quite likely we’ll hear her name called on Oscar Sunday, but the movie for which it is called may be a surprise. **Mark Ruffalo was nominated, but not for the expected movie:** It’s not altogether surprising to see Mark Ruffalo’s name in the mix, but it is a bit of a curveball that it’s not for _Spotlight_. Ruffalo was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of a bipolar father in _Infinitely Polar Bear_, released all the way back in that awards-season wasteland called June. It’s a relief to know that a movie released outside of the expected timeframe can still get love come awards season, even if it comes (arguably) at the cost of a slight to another movie. Which brings us to… **The cast of** **_Spotlight_** **was decidedly shut out of the spotlight:** _Spotlight_ got plenty of attention from the HFPA—with nominations for Best Picture (Drama), Best Screenplay and Best Director—but it got exactly zero nominations for its actors, who have been widely recognized as one of the strongest ensembles of the year. Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams have made plenty of awards-season shortlists, and it almost seems as though the repeated acknowledgement of the cast might have taken steam away from each of its individual contributors. **Most of the acting nominations were expected, but some were pleasantly surprising.** It is a beautiful thing to see Lily Tomlin get her due with a nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her tough-loving, lesbian poet grandmother in _Grandma_. The same goes for her _Grace and Frankie_ costar Jane Fonda, who makes the most of her limited screen time in _Youth_ as an aging movie star who fails to hide her desperation behind layers of mascara. Al Pacino also snagged a best actor nomination for _Danny Collins_, an all-but-forgotten dramedy released in March in which he plays an aging rocker who decides to change his hard-living ways. The Golden Globes’ acknowledgement that comedies and musicals are as worthy of celebration as Serious Dramas also allows for the inclusion of people like Amy Schumer and Melissa McCarthy—for, as Will Ferrell [reminded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5JAPkvnyso) us at the Oscars a few years back, we all know that a comedian at the Oscars is “the saddest \[wo\]man of all” (if she’s even invited). **Diversity is still a problem.** Out of 29 actors nominated for awards, all but two are white. Even as onscreen diversity sees steps forward—as with Viola Davis [becoming](http://time.com/4042100/emmys-2015-viola-davis-win/) the first black woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama back in September—change sometimes seems to happen not in leaps and bounds but in a slow trickle. In the case of the Golden Globe nominations, it’s not just about who gets a nod, but about who gets what role, and what roles are even available to actors of color in the first place. **_Mad Max: Fury Road_** **isn’t going anywhere.** Many people were [pleasantly surprised ](http://time.com/4131668/mad-max-national-board-of-review/)to see _Mad Max: Fury Road_ selected as the National Board of Review’s best film of 2015\. Though the prevailing sentiment was something along the lines of, “That’s nice, but it won’t be around come Oscar time,” George Miller’s feminist action flick isn’t exactly receding into the distance, either. 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