The 64th annual Golden Globe awards will be handed out at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Hollywood on Sunday.

California governor and former Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce the nominations and present the Golden Globe for best motion picture in the drama category, according to the awards' organizer Sunday.

"Babel" could walk away from the Golden Globes ceremony with more awards than any other contenders, while Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood will celebrate an entertainment milestone as the first actor and director, respectively, with double nominations in the same category.

The film "Babel," the tale of a single rifle shot that reverberates on four continents, goes into the gala ceremony with seven nominations including those for best drama picture, best actor and best screenplay.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which gives the awards, tends to favor edgy material, and this year the black humor mockumentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" apparently fit the bill, judging from its best picture nomination in the comedy or musical category.

Close behind "Babel" and its seven nominations was the mob story "The Departed," with six nominations, including DiCaprio's for best actor in a drama picture. His other best actor nomination is for "Blood Diamond."

British actress Helen Mirren is a three-time nominee. She has nominations for playing Queen Elizabeth I in the TV miniseries of the same name and for playing Elizabeth II in "The Queen." She is also nominated for best actress in a miniseries or TV movie for "Prime Suspect: The Final Act."

Eastwood is nominated for best director twice -- for "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima," both based on the World War II battle for the Pacific volcanic island of Iwo Jima between U.S. and Japanese forces.

Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" about the collapsing Mayan empire is nominated for best foreign language film, along with "Letters from Iwo Jima," which is also made by an American studio but mostly in Japanese. They will compete with "The Lives of Others" from Germany, "Pan's Labyrinth" from Mexico and "Volver" from Spain.

During the ceremony, veteran director and actor Warren Beatty is expected to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. It will put the 69-year-old Beatty in the company of former recipients such as Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson.

Nicholson's 16-year-old daughter, Lorraine, will be Miss Golden Globe at the ceremony to assist nearly 50 presenters, including director Steven Spielberg and Oscar winner Tom Hanks, to hand out the trophies.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with about 85 members, has drawn criticism for its small size, which theoretically makes it more susceptible to influence by studios and publicists, the absence of members from internationally renowned publications, and the practice of some members of posing for photographs with stars, which would be an ethics breach at most U.S. publications.