UPDATE: The Writers Guild nominations, along with an exclusive quote from Bryan Fuller, have been added below.
It may be time to move some of those Emmys and Lifetime Achievement Awards aside for yet another trophy. This morning the nominees for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced, and William Shatner was on the list in the Supporting Actor category for a TV series, miniseries or TV movie.
If he wins, it'll be the Shat's second Golden Globe. He took home the kudo in 2005 for Boston Legal, then in its first season and now in its fourth. Shatner has also won two Emmy Awards for the part of "Denny Crane," first as a guest actor in The Practice and then in his first season of Boston, and he's earned Emmy nominations for the latter show every year since.
In other Golden Globe categories, former Star Trek: Voyager writer/producer Bryan Fuller was honored when his creation Pushing Daisies was nominated for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical.
Also, the soon-to-be-released "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" written by John Logan ("Star Trek Nemesis") is up for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical.
Shatner's competition in the supporting TV actor field include Ted Danson — who hosted Star Trek's 30th anniversary special in 1996 — for Damages, along with Andy Serkis for Longford, Donald Sutherland for Bryan Singer's Dirty Sexy Money, and both Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven for Entourage.
Pushing Daisies goes up against Entourage, 30 Rock, Extras and Californication.
"Sweeney Todd," which hits U.S. theaters on December 21, is competing against "Across the Universe," "Charlie Wilson's War," "Hairspray" and "Juno."
The Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held exactly a month from today, on Sunday, January 13, and will be telecast live on NBC.
Good luck Bill, Bryan and John!
UPDATE: Even while its members are on strike, the Writers Guild of America is still in the spirit of awards season. Yesterday the WGA announced nominations for its 60th Anniversary awards to be held in February, and several Star Trek alumni were cited.
The facts are these: Bryan Fuller — age 38 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days — was nominated twice as writer for Pushing Daisies, both in the general category of New Series and for a specific script in Episodic Comedy (the pilot episode "Pie-Lette").
Even though the WGA and Golden Globe nominations come at a time of industry strife with the writers strike in full force, Fuller is excited about the nominations as they serve to highlight the role of the writer in Hollywood. "The Golden Globe nominations remind us all why we're here in this industry doing what we do," Fuller told STARTREK.COM. "To tell stories and create alternate realities for audiences to escape to, not quibble over money and fairness — which, don't get me wrong, are quibble-able issues — they're just not why most of us are working in entertainment."
André & Maria Jacquemetton, who served as story editors on Star Trek: Enterprise and wrote several episodes, are recognized as two of the writers of the AMC cable series Mad Men, nominated for Best Dramatic Series and Best New Series. (Mad Men was also listed as a Golden Globe nominee in Best TV Series - Drama.)
Competing against Daisies and Men in the New Series category is Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program, with Sarah Silverman ("Rain Robinson") named as one of the writer nominees.
Damon Lindelof, one of J.J. Abrams' fellow producers on the new "Star Trek" movie, is nominated as a writer on Lost in the Episodic Drama category. He was cited for the script "Flashes Before Your Eyes" which aired last February, which Lindelof co-wrote with Drew Goddard.
The 2008 Writers Guild Awards will be presented Saturday, February 9, in a joint Los Angeles/New York ceremony.
Once again, good luck to all!