Kenneth Branagh's Belfast and Ruth Negga among Irish Golden Globe nominees

Belfast, directed and written by Kenneth Branagh, has received multiple nominations at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards in a strong showing for Irish film.

The film from the Northern Irish director achieved nominations for Best Picture (Drama), Director, Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Caitríona Balfe), Supporting Actor (Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds) and Song (Van Morrison), tying with The Power of the Dog for the overall most nominations in film.

Its described in the pictures' synopsis as "a semi-autobiographical film which chronicles the life of a working-class family and their young son's childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital."

Belfast will be up against heavy hitters such as Dune, The Power of the Dog, King Richard, and Coda for the Best Motion Picture in Drama award.

Branagh also faces stiff competition for the Best Director nod, with Steven Spielberg also nominated for West Side Story.

The Oscar-nominated Limerick actress Ruth Negga was also shortlisted today in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work on the Rebecca Hall movie, Passing.

Released on Netflix, Negga also hosted a special screening of the film in Dublin this October, briefly introducing the film and its themes.

Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, Passing, starring Tessa Thompson and Clare Kendry alongside Negga, is the story of Irene Redfield and Clare Bellew, two black women who can 'pass' as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York.

The full list of Golden Globe nominees are as follows:

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy

• The Great
• Hacks
• Only Murders in the Building
• Reservation Dogs
• Ted Lasso

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama

• Brian Cox (Succession)
• Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game)
• Billy Porter (Pose)
• Jeremy Strong (Succession)
• Omar Sy (Lupin)

Best Performance by an Actress - Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television

• Jessica Chastain (Scenes From a Marriage)
• Cynthia Erivo (Genius: Aretha)
• Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision)
• Margaret Qualley (Maid)
• Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown)

Best Director

• Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
• Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
• Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
• Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Best Performance by an Actress - Musical or Comedy

• Marion Cotillard (Annette)
• Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
• Jennifer Lawrence (Don't Look Up)
• Emma Stone (Cruella)
• Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

Best Performance by an Actor - Drama

• Mahershala Ali (Swan Song)
• Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
• Will Smith (King Richard)
• Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Best Television Series - Drama

• Lupin
• The Morning Show
• Pose
• Squid Game
• Succession

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama

• Uzo Aduba (In Treatment)
• Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show)
• Christine Baranski (The Good Fight)
• Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale)
• Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose)

Best Performance by an Actor -  Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for Television

• Paul Bettany (WandaVision)
• Oscar Isaac (Scenes From a Marriage)
• Michael Keaton (Dopesick)
• Ewan McGregor (Halston)
• Tahar Rahim (The Serpent)

Best Performance by an Actor - Musical or Comedy

• Leonardo DiCaprio (Don't Look Up)
• Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)
• Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
• Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)
• Anthony Ramos (In the Heights)

Best Supporting Actor

• Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)
• Jamie Dornan (Belfast)
• Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
• Troy Kotsur (CODA)
• Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Best Original Score

• The French Dispatch (Alexandre Desplat)
• Encanto (Germaine Franco)
• The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
• Parallel Mothers — (Alberto Iglesias)
• Dune  — (Hans Zimmer)

Best Actress in a TV Series - Musical or Comedy

• Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)
• Elle Fanning (The Great)
• Issa Rae (Insecure)
• Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish)
• Jean Smart (Hacks)

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television

• Dopesick
• Impeachment: American Crime Story
• Maid
• Mare of Easttown
• The Underground Railroad

Best Supporting Actor - Television

• Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)
• Kieran Culkin (Succession)
• Mark Duplass (The Morning Show)
• Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso)
• O Yeong-su (Squid Game)

Best Picture - Musical or Comedy

• "Cyrano" (MGM)
• "Don't Look Up" (Netflix)
• "Licorice Pizza" (MGM)
• "Tick, Tick … Boom!" (Netflix)
• "West Side Story" (20th Century Studios / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress

• Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)
• Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
• Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
• Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
• Ruth Negga (Passing)

Best Picture - Foreign Language

• Compartment No. 6 (Finland, Russia, Germany)
• Drive My Car (Japan)
• The Hand of God (Italy)
• A Hero (France, Iran)
• Parallel Mothers (Spain)

Best Screenplay

• Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
• Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
• Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
• Adam McKay (Don't Look Up)
• Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos)

Best Performance by an Actress - Drama

• Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
• Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
• Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
• Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
• Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Best Motion Picture - Drama

• Belfast
• CODA
• Dune
• King Richard
• The Power of the Dog

Best Television Actor - Musical / Comedy Series

• Anthony Anderson (Black-ish)
• Nicholas Hoult (The Great)
• Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
• Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
• Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso)

Best Supporting Actress - Television

• Jennifer Coolidge (White Lotus)
• Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick)
• Andie MacDowell (Maid)
• Sarah Snook (Succession)
• Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso)

Best Original Song, Motion Picture

• 'Be Alive' from King Richard (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dixson)
• 'Dos Orugitas' from Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
• 'Down to Joy' from Belfast (Van Morrison)
• 'Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)' from Respect (Jamie Hartman, Jennifer Hudson, Carole King)
• 'No Time to Die' from No Time to Die (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell)

Best Motion Picture - Animated

• Encanto
• Flee
• Luca
• My Sunny Maad
• Raya and the Last Dragon