The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Golden Globe nominees this morning, and I’m just gonna touch on the politically/socially themed nominees, though I freaking loved In Brughes and think it’s the best comedy since Rosemary’s Baby.

Milk didn’t shake up the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The biopic which swept the New York Critics’ Awards–Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor–scored only one nomination at the Globes: Sean Penn for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama.

Penn is up against Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon, which received five nominations including Best Motion Picture-Drama, Best Screenplay and Best Director nods.

One exciting entry in Best Foreign Language Film: The Baader Meinhoff Complex, a drama based on Stefan Aust’s best-selling nonfiction book about the Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s against what they perceived as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past.

Recount and John Adams garnered major notice in Best Made for Television Movie or Mini-Series noms  along with Best Performance and Supporting Role slots.

So, why was Milk overlooked, while Nazi-tinged The Reader, Doubt and Frost/Nixon scored major attention? Are the Globes a prescient indicator for the Oscars? Even more importantly: Will the Screen Actors’ Guild strike be called? The Globes won’t be affected either way, since the strike would hit after the ceremony, but the Academy Awards could see picket lines and no attendees…