Despite Rome Win, Scarlett Johansson Is Ineligible For The Golden Globes

Scarlett Johansson is ineligible for a prize at the Golden Globes for her performance as Samantha, an advanced computer operating system in Spize Jonze's Her.

The 29-year-old actress has received rave reviews for the role and won Best Actress at the Rome Film Festival.

However, the considerable awards buzz surrounding Johansson's performance has deflated given the Hollywood Foreign press Association's to deem her ineligible for a prize at the Golden Globes - often a barometer for Oscars success.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the decision was made several days ago and was appealed by Warner Bros. The HFPA is certainly consistent on the issue after disqualifying Andy Serkis' CGI-enhanced characterizations in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).

Johansson is theoretically still eligible for Academy Awards and Screen Actors Guild nominations, though the HFPA's decision to likely to persuade the famously traditional thinking Academy to do the same.

Regardless, a Warner Bros representative made it clear on Tuesday (December 26, 2013) that the studio plans to proceed full steam ahead with an awards campaign for Johansson.

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It shouldn't make much difference, with Cate Blanchett almost guaranteed to win Best Actress at the Oscar for her career-best performance in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine. The bookmakers have her as the odds-on favorite, ahead of Sandra Bullock for Gravity, Judi Dench for Philomena, Emma Thompson for Saving Mr Banks, Meryl Streep for August: Osage County and Amy Adams for _American Hustle_.

Next page: How 'Her' scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Her - set for release on January 10, 2013 - currently holds a perfect score of 100% on the reviews aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.

"Her is told from Theo's perspective, and all he can ever really know about Samantha is that she's infinite-and when it comes to another person, what's more real than that?" said Film Comment Magazine.

"With his new movie her... Jonze creates the splendid anachronism of a movie romance that is laugh-and-cry and warm all over, totally sweet and utterly serious," wrote Richard Corliss of Time Magazine.

"Spike Jonze's singular, wryly funny, subtly profound consideration of our relationship to technology - and to each other," wrote Scott Foundas of Variety.

"A screwball surrealist comedy that asks us to laugh at an unconventional romance while also disarming us with the realization that its fantasy scenario isn't too far from our present reality," said Ed Gonzalez of Slant magazine.

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