Following The Artist among top nominees for the key film awards were The Descendants, starring George Clooney as a man struggling to keep his family together, and civil rights movie The Help with five nods each, including both in the key category of best film drama.
Joining Descendants and The Help among the films vying for top drama director Martin Scorsese's 3D Hugo and Steven Spielberg's War Horse, baseball movie Moneyball and Clooney's political film The Ides of March.
"I see great versatility, there is a variety of subjects being brought up in a variety of formats," said Aida Takla-O'Reilly, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the Golden Globe Awards.
People really love the movie, and I guess there's something special about it for people in the United States, because it's about your movie history," added the filmmaker, who said he was in a cafe when told the news.
The Golden Globe winners will be announced on January 15, in a show hosted for a third time by provocative British comic Ricky Gervais, invited back despite allegedly ruffling feathers at last year's show.
"The Artist" was nominated for categories including best comedy or music film, best comedy or music actor, best director, and best supporting actress -- for Hazanavicius's wife Berenice Bejo.
The movie had already created a buzz after winning best film and best director at the New York Film Critics Circle two weeks ago.
Distributed by The Weinstein Company -- veteran Oscar-backers who produced last year's winner "The King's Speech" -- it tells the story of silent film star George Valentin whose career is torpedoed by the arrival of speech.
As his fortunes plummet, a young dancer and actress who initially idolizes him -- Peppy Miller, who catches his eye, and heart -- is on her way up to Hollywood stardom in the new movies-with-sound era.
Jean Dujardin, who plays Valentin, said: "I was proud and thrilled. It?s such an honor to be nominated alongside such great actors. I feel like a spoiled child."
"The Help" won the most nominations -- four -- on Wednesday for the Screen Actors Guild awards, which along with the Globes are seen as a key indicator to success in the all-important Oscars.
On Thursday, the movie was nominated for best drama picture, best actress for Viola Davis, best supporting actress for Jessica Chastain, and best song for "The Living Proof" sung by Mary J. Blige.
"I got up and watched the nominations live. I cheered out loud," its director Tate Taylor told the Hollywood Reporter from Martha's Vineyard, where is working on his latest project.
Notable absentees from the Globes shortlists were Terrence Malick's critically acclaimed "The Tree of Life" -- which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes -- as well as Cold War thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
They could yet win gongs though: nominations for the Oscars are due to be announced on January 24, ahead of the 84th Academy Awards show which climaxes Hollywood's awards season on February 26.
On the small screen, the most nominations went to Emmy-winning British period drama "Downton Abbey" with four, while other top nominees included HBO drama "Boardwalk Empire," NBC's "30 Rock" and Fox's "Glee."
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