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“I’m excited and curious,” says the husky voiced Alicia Vikander about the upcoming award season. She is taking a break from shooting Bourne, and reflecting on a string of roles that have defined her as the new it girl.

Lily Tomlin is a double nominee as Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Grandma directed by Paul Weitz, and Best Actress in a TV Series Comedy for Grace and Frankie, where she co-stars with Jane Fonda, her friend since she convinced Lily to star with her and Dolly Parton in 9 to 5 (1980), a film that Fonda produced. Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian and became famous for the characters she created on the television variety show Laugh-In (1969-1973), such as Ernestine the telephone operator and Edith Ann the 5-year-old girl sitting in a chair.

Paul Dano, 32, receives his first Golden Globe nomination as Best supporting actor for portraying composer and Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson as a young man in Love & Mercy directed by Bill Pohlad, while John Cusack plays him in the later years when he was fighting mental illness. Dano talked to HFPA about this experience: “In the spirit of Brian, I did try to summon any ghosts or angels that might come visit us, because he felt connected to something bigger than himself, while he was in the studio recording Pet Sounds back in the 60s.

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Jane Fonda, nominated as Best supporting actress for playing an aging Hollywood movie star in Youth, explains why she chose this role. “I wanted to work with Paolo Sorrentino even before I read the script, because I had seen Il Divo and The Great Beauty, and directors like this don't come along all the time.