
Clockwise from top left: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Keira Knightley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Emily Blunt, David Oyelowo
The Golden Globes are due to kick off Hollywood’s awards season later, with British stars expected to fare well.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne go head-to-head for the best movie actor prize, for their respective roles as Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking.
Rosamund Pike and Felicity Jones also compete in the best actress category.
Both are newcomers to the ceremony, with Pike shortlisted for the thriller Gone Girl, and Jones for the Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything.
But to win, they must defeat seven-time nominee Julianne Moore, who is hoping to win her first Globe, for Still Alice, in which she portrays a woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
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Source:: BBC Entertainment