Hard drama is the dominant factor in this year's awards season, it seems, if the nomination lists for the CCAs and the Golden Globes are any indication.

The just-annouced nominations for the 2008 Golden Globe Awards, while promising a tight and interesting race in the mainstream categories, have left sci-fi and fantasy even further out in the cold than the Critics Choice Awards nominations announced earlier this week. This doesn't bode well for the recognition of genre films at this year's Academy Awards.

Amy Adams's nomination for best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy, for Enchanted, and a related nomination for her song "That's How You Know" stand alone in the motion picture categories. Otherwise, the closest the voters came was a few comedies that veer into the whimsical: Hairspray, for example, earned scattered nominations.

The animated fantasy-comedies Bee Movie, Ratatouille, and The Simpsons Movie were all nominated for best animated film. (I'll say again that Ratatouille deserves to win not only animated feature but best picture – but then, I'm an unabashed Brad Bird fan. My all-time favorite film is still The Iron Giant.)

Golden Globes are also given for television, and the good news is Pushing Daisies and its leads, Lee Pace and Anna Friel, all received well-deserved nominations, though the show's affected style makes wins for this gem a long shot. James Nesbitt also snuck in with a nod for the BBC-produced reenvisioning of Jekyll. Otherwise, all of the outstanding (and in some cases, as with key episodes of Battlestar Galactica, brilliant) work done this year in science fiction and fantasy on TV has been criminally ignored.

A full list of nominess may be found here. The Globes, awarded out each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are one of the main indicators and preliminary heralds to the Oscars. The Golden Globes will be given out on Jan. 13.