Golden Globe Noms: Good for Winslet, Streep & Field, Not for Desperate Housewives, Grey's

<img height="59" alt="" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/JDtpYIkBkC61/photos/86f93d7d78f6d9fa6bc7db3970d9f047/ori_c30003492e9769.jpg?ug_____DG64iU4h5" width="59" align="left">By Meredith O&#39;Brien/<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mommytrackd.com/golden-globe-nominations">Mommy Track&#39;d<br></a><br>The recently announced&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/001index.html">nominations</a> for the January 11 Golden Globe awards ceremony feature a number of Mommy Track&#39;d&#39;s favorites in the TV category, as well as several women who played working or at-home mothers on the silver screen.<br><br>On the movie front (cue the infectious ABBA&nbsp;soundtrack) . . . gliding, sashaying and belting out tunes this year was perennial awards bait,&nbsp;Meryl Streep, who was nominated for best actress in a comedy/musical for her role in <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mammamiamovie.com/">Mamma Mia</a></em>!. Streep&nbsp;played a fearlessly independent single mom who owns a hotel on a Greek island. (Streep&nbsp;is also nominated in the best actress in a drama category for playing a stern, moralizing nun/school principal in <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://doubt-themovie.com/">Doubt</a></em>). The conceit of this Greek-isle-cavorting flick is that Streep&#39;s&nbsp;grown daughter invites three men, one of whom could&nbsp;be her father (she doesn&#39;t know who her dad is), to her wedding. Chaos and hilarity ensue.<br><br>Mother of the world Angelina Jolie is also up for a best actress in a drama for her role in <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.changelingmovie.net/">Changeling</a></em>, an adapted, real life tale of a working mom in the late 1920s whose 9-year-old son was abducted from her home after she had to unexpectedly go into work and leave him in the house alone. With her husband serving time in prison for robbery, Jolie&#39;s character fought with police who, months after her son was kidnapped, tried in vain to convince her that the boy they presented to her was her child when she knew he wasn&#39;t.<br><br>Then there&#39;s Kate Winslet, always a favorite of mine. She&#39;s nominated for best actress in a drama for the soon-to-be-released film <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.revolutionaryroadmovie.com/">Revolutionary Road</a></em>. Set in the 1950s, it reunites Winslet with Leonardo DiCaprio as a young couple who move out of the big city into the &#39;burbs, where they go on to have two kids. He works long days. She labors at household tasks. They&#39;re bored silly and crave passion, so they hatch a plan to move to Paris, where Winslet&#39;s character says she wants to find a job. <em>New York Magazine</em> said Winslet gave the &quot;best performance of the year&quot; in this film, adding that Winslet&#39;s turn in <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://thereader-movie.com/">The Reader</a></em> as a&nbsp;Nazi prison guard for which she&#39;s also nominated as a supporting actress, was &quot;pretty great&quot; too.<br><br>Over on the small screen,&nbsp;cable networks kicked some serious Globe nomination behind, with cable shows&nbsp;snagging a total of 35 nominations to the four broadcast networks&#39; 19.<br><br>Among the nominees in the TV drama categories were the actors who play the troubled up-and-coming couple in the New York City suburbs circa 1962, Don and Betty Draper (Jon Hamm and January Jones) on AMC&#39;s <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/">Mad Men</a></em>. Their storyline this past season -- where Betty finally made Don pay a price for fooling around on her, the mother of his two young children -- dramatized the growing malaise and discontent educated, upper-middle class women felt in that period as they were on the cusp of the mainstreaming of feminism.<br><br><em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/brothersandsisters/index">Brothers &amp; Sisters&#39;</a></em> Sally Field and Rachel Griffiths, who play the Walker family&#39;s matriarch, Nora Walker, and the eldest sister Sarah Whedon respectively, were again nominated for their work on the ABC drama. Throughout the new season, after years spent devoted to her family and childrearing Nora has been creating a charity from scratch, while Sarah came to grips with being a divorced, under-employed mom of two.<br><br>In the comedy category, would-be adoptive-mom-workaholic Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) on NBC&#39;s <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/">30 Rock</a> got her props with another best actress nomination, as did Debra Messing, as a divorced mom kicking off a new writing career on USA&#39;s <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://usanetwork.com/series/starterwife">The Starter Wife</a></em> and Mary-Louise Parker, as a widowed, pot-dealing suburban mom on Showtime&#39;s <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do">Weeds</a></em>.<br> <p>Who was left out? <br><br><strong><em>Read about who got shafted over on Mommy Track&#39;d&#39;s <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mommytrackd.com/golden-globe-nominations">Pop Culture and Politics column</a>.</em></strong></p>