Globes Nominees: A Who's Who of Hollywood

ANGELINA JOLIE

Nomination: Best actress in a drama as the widow of reporter Daniel

Pearl in A Mighty Heart.

A 'Mighty' Weight: "I felt huge pressure – so much so that I

didn’t sleep the night before [production started]," the

three-time winner, 32, said about playing Marianne. "It was a huge

responsibility."

Next Up: Between globe-trotting the world with Brad Pitt and their

four kids, she's making more movies, including an action-thriller about

real-life intelligence operative Kathi Lynn Austin.

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JOHNNY DEPP

WINNER

Nomination: Best actor in a comedy or musical for Sweeney

Todd (The eight-time nominee could finally win his first Globe!)

On Playing the Murderous Barber: "That was always the difficulty,

taking a character like that and attempting to make people feel for him,"

Depp, 44, told Entertainment Weekly.

Next Up: Depp has plans to produce and star in the thriller Shantaram, and he'll play American gangster John Dillinger in the drama

Public Enemies.

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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY

Nomination: Best actress in a drama, as a woman whose lover is

wrongfully accused of a crime in Atonement.

After-Party Girl: "It's just so exciting that we've got nominated

in so many categories," the British actress, 22, told the Associated Press.

"There's such a big group of us that can get to go together."

Next Up: The two-time nominee will star in The Dutchessabout the life of an 18th-century aristocrat and The Edge of Love, about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

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GEORGE CLOONEY

Nomination: Best actor in a drama for his turn as a crusading

lawyer in Michael Clayton.

But What He Really Wants to Do Is Direct: "My hope is that as time

goes on and people want to see less and less of me onscreen," Clooney, 46,

told Time, "I'll be able to direct."

Next Up: The two-time winner directs and stars opposite Renée Zellweger in the period comedy Leatherheads, which comes

out in April.

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JULIA ROBERTS

Nomination: The three-time winner is up for best supporting actress

in a drama for her role as a right-wing blue blood in Charlie Wilson's War.

An Honor Just to Be Nominated?: "Usually the triumph of my day is

everybody making it to the potty," Roberts, 40, told Matt Lauer on Today. "So, yes, I think it's thrilling."

Next Up: She'll star in the thriller Duplicity, which

reunites her with her Closer star Clive Owen.

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JAMES MCAVOY

Nomination: Best actor in a drama for his turn as a man wrongly

accused of rape in Atonement.

Lights! Camera! Lots of Action!: The first-time nominee filmed some

racy love scenes with costar Knightley. "The director gave us instructions

like, 'Pull the leg up, Keira, now grab his hair. Unbutton your flies.

James, kiss her on the neck,' " McAvoy, 28, told PEOPLE.

Next Up: The Scottish actor will star with Angelina Jolie in the

summer action film Wanted.

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KATHERINE HEIGL

Nomination: Best supporting actress in a TV series for Grey's Anatomy

Playing Against Type: "We're all familiar with how Jennifer Aniston

moves, how Courteney Cox speaks, because of 10 years on Friends,"

Heigl, 29, told Entertainment Weekly. "But I think if I can find

roles that are different enough from Izzie, I can find a way to shake

her."

Next Up: More movies! The Grey's star (and two-time

nominee) next appears in the romantic comedy 27 Dresses.

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SALLY FIELD

Nomination: Best actress in a TV drama for her turn as matriarch

Nora in Brothers amp Sisters.

Full Steam Ahead: "I don't think you can ever sit back and take

anything for granted," Fields, 61, said to Entertainment Weekly.

"I think that the minute you sit back and dust yourself off and say

"La-de-da" the lightning bolt will strike.'"

Next Up: Field, who has won a Globe twice already, is attached to

the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln.

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HUGH LAURIE

Nomination: Best actor in a TV drama as the cranky Dr. House in

House.

But Who Will Write His Acceptance Speech? "I'm extremely honored,"

Laurie, 48 and a two-time winner, told PEOPLE. "But now, especially now, I

have to emphasize how much I owe to David Shore and all the writers on

House. Without them, I wouldn't even know how to finish this

sentence without ... you know ..."

Next Up: Laurie will costar with Keanu Reeves in the crime drama

Night Watchman, about an LAPD veteran.

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CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

Nomination: Best actress in a TV comedy for her turn as an amnesiac

in Samantha Who?.

The Sweet Smell of Success: "Creatively, I'm at the height of my

life right now," Applegate, 36, told PEOPLE. "I'm playing a character that I

love playing. I get a thrill every day."

Next Up: The two-time nominee will appear with The

Office's Rainn Wilson in The Rocker, a comedy about a failed

musician who's given a second chance at fame.

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ALEC BALDWIN

Nomination: Best actor in a TV comedy as pompous Jack Donaghy on

30 Rock.

Being Typecast as the Mean Guy: "When you do a job, everybody keeps

offering you the same job over and over again," the 49-year-old Baldwin, who

won in 2007, has said. "I always tell people my dream role would be to

recreate Little House on the Prairie and play the Michael Landon

role, but no one has offered me that yet."

Next Up: He'll star in the family dramedy Limelife with

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Cynthia Nixon.

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JAIME PRESSLY

Nomination: Best supporting actress – her first Globe nod!

– for My Name Is Earl

The Joy of Playing Joy "I'm not apologizing for some of the jobs I

took because it kept me employed," Pressly, 30, told PEOPLE. "I've been

working toward this day when I would play a role with vulnerability, but

still with spunk and spirit. And that day is here, isn't it?"

Next Up: The Emmy winner lends her voice to the animated Horton Hears a Who!, based on the Dr. Seuss book.

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JEREMY PIVEN

WINNER

Nomination: His fourth, this time for best supporting actor in a TV

series as snarky superagent Ari on Entourage

Time of His Life "None of this is lost on me," says Piven, 42, who

started acting as a child in his parents' famed Piven Theater Workshop in

Chicago. "I love it. I'm having a great time."

Next Up: Piven will appear in Guy Ritchie's crime drama RocknRolla, which will be out this year.

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AMERICA FERRERA

Nomination: Last year's winner is up again for best actress in a TV

comedy for Ugly Betty.

On Betty vs. America: "I feel extremely comfortable being dressed

as Ugly Betty," Ferrera, 23, told PEOPLE. "It's always nice at the end of

the day to take the wig off and take my makeup off and just be myself. But I

am more comfortable being Betty than being on a red carpet all glammed up."

Next Up: Ferrera will appear in the sequel to Sisterhood

of the Traveling Pants.