British stars led the way as the nominations for the Golden Globes were announced yesterday.

The actress Kate Winslet and her husband, the director Sam Mendes, are both up for honours in their first joint project, Revolutionary Road. Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Danny Boyle and Dame Judi Dench were also among the British hopes as the nominations were revealed in Beverly Hills. The awards, which will be handed out next month, are often seen as a pointer to Oscar winners.

Frost/Nixon, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt, received the most nominations, with five each.

Winslet earned two nominations: Best Dramatic Actress for Revolutionary Road, in which she is reunited with her Titanic co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, who is nominated for Best Dramatic Actor; and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader.

The drama, about the strains of 1950s suburbia, is directed by Mendes, who is nominated for Best Director.

Fiennes was nominated for Best Actor in a Mini-Series for Bernand and Doris and Best Supporting Actor for The Duchess.

Dame Judi’s nomination is for Best Actress in a Mini-Series for Cranford. Her co-star, Dame Eileen Atkins, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

The late Heath Ledger was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his final role as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Brad Pitt was nominated for his lead role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who is born aged 80 and grows younger every day. Pitt’s partner, Angelina Jolie, is nominated for a Best Actress Globe for her role in The Changeling, about a woman whose child goes missing.

Other Britons nominated included Kristin Scott Thomas for Best Dramatic Actress for I’ve Loved You So Long, and Hugh Laurie for Best Actor in a Television Drama for House.

Danny Boyle earned a Best Director nomination for Slumdog Millionaire. He will be up against the Britons Stephen Daldry, for The Reader, and Mendes. Boyle said: “You know public displays in Britain are reserved, but inside you’re dancing.”

Tom Wilkinson is nominated for Best Actor in a Mini-series for Recount and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Made-For-Television Film for John Adams. Peter Morgan is nominated for Best Screenplay for Frost/Nixon, and will be up against fellow Britons Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and David Hare (The Reader).

And the nominations are . . .

Film Drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; The Reader; Revolutionary Road; Slumdog Millionaire; The Visitor

Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire); Stephen Daldry (The Reader); David Fincher (Curious Case of Benjamin Button); Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon); Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road); Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon); Sean Penn (Milk); Brad Pitt (Curious Case of Benjamin Button); Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Actress Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married); Angelina Jolie (Changeling); Meryl Streep (Doubt); Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long); Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)

Supporting Actor Tom Cruise (Tropic Thunder); Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder); Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess); Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt); Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Supporting Actress Amy Adams (Doubt); Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona); Viola Davis (Doubt); Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler); Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Screenplay Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire); David Hare (The Reader); Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon); Eric Roth (Curious Case of Benjamin Button); John Patrick Shanley, (Doubt)

Actor, TV drama Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment); Michael C. Hall (Dexter); Jon Hamm (Mad Men); Hugh Laurie (House MD); Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors)

Actress in TV mini-series or film Dame Judi Dench (Cranford); Laura Linney (John Adams); Catherine Keener (An American Crime); Shirley MacLaine (Coco Chanel); Susan Sarandon (Bernard and Doris)

Actor in a TV mini-series or film Ralph Fiennes (Bernard and Doris); Paul Giammatti (John Adams); Kevin Spacey (Recount); Keifer Sutherland (24: Redemption); Tom Wilkinson (Recount)

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