Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Miley Cyrus and Beyonce Knowles
are among the music-related nominees for the 2009 Golden Globe
awards. The ceremony will be broadcast live Jan. 11 on NBC.
Springsteen was nominated in the best original song category for
"The Wrestler" from the feature film of the same name. Knowles got
a nod as a co-writer on "Once in a Lifetime" from "Cadillac
Records." The song's other writers are Amanda Ghost, Scott
McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring and Jody Street.
Peter Gabriel was recognized for "Down to Earth" from "Wall-E." The
music was co-written with Thomas Newman. Cyrus and co-writer
Jeffrey Steele are nominated for "I Thought I Lost You" from
"Bolt." The category was completed by the title song to "Gran
Torino," whose writer credits include Clint Eastwood, Kyle
Eastwood, Jamie Cullum and Michael Stevens.
Eastwood is also nominated for his original score for "Changeling,"
where he's up against James Newton Howard ("Defiance"), A.R. Rahman
("Slumdog Millionaire"), Hans Zimmer ("Frost/Nixon") and Alexandre
Desplat ("The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button").
In the best picture -- musical or comedy category, Universal
Pictures' "Mamma Mia!" was among the nominees. The ABBA-themed
film's star Meryl Streep was also nominated for best performance by
an actress in a motion picture -- comedy or musical.