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Film News: Org voters feared reality shows killed off genre — News about the death of broadcast sitcoms has been greatly exaggerated, certainly if the Golden Globe nominations are any indication.

Film News: Exotic or foreign-set films dominate film category — The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. filled its drama category with a potential blockbuster, a star-driven small-scale vehicle, two war movies and an inner-city tale of adolescent perseverance.

Film News: Unusual for them, foreign journalists like gross-out comedy — Tennessee Williams more or less got it right: Sometimes there’s God — or Paramount — so quickly.

Film News: Race draws on a more animated world at the box office — When the HFPA voted last month to expand this year’s number of nominations for animated feature from three to five slots, it constituted a long-overdue recognition of animation’s increasingly high profile and box office heft. In addition to recognizing the sheer number of animated projects that deserve inclusion, the expansion also allows other contenders to join the club that has been dominated by Disney-Pixar, which has produced the previous three Globes winners: “Wall-E,” “Ratatouille” and “Cars.”

Film News: Studios eye gains; ‘Up in the Air’ bumped to Dec. 23 — For the first time in years, the Golden Globe nominations love mainstream films.