Greta Gerwig鈥檚 鈥淏arbie鈥� dominated the nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs.
It was closely followed by its 鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥� which scored eight nominations, including best picture drama and for actors Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt.
The , now a for-profit endeavor with a larger and more diverse voting body, announced nominations Monday for its January awards show, after scandal and several troubled years, including one without a broadcast. Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place on Jan. 7.
Films nominated for best motion picture drama included 鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥� Martin Scorsese鈥檚 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon,鈥� Bradley Cooper鈥檚 鈥淢aestro,鈥� Celine Song鈥檚 鈥淧ast Lives,鈥� Justine Triet鈥檚 鈥淎natomy of a Fall鈥� and Jonathan Glazer鈥檚 鈥淭he Zone of Interest.鈥�
In the best motion picture musical or comedy category, 鈥淏arbie鈥� was joined by 鈥淎ir,鈥� 鈥淎merican Fiction鈥� 鈥淭he Holdovers,鈥� 鈥淢ay December鈥� and 鈥淧oor Things.鈥�
Yorgos Lanthimos鈥� 鈥淧oor Things鈥� and Scorsese鈥檚 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥� both received seven nominations each. 鈥淧oor Things鈥� saw nominations for Lanthimos, its actors Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Tony McNamara for screenplay and Jerskin Fendrix for score. 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥� got nods for Scorsese, for direction and co-writing the screenplay with Eric Roth, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro.
鈥淏arbie鈥� tied for second-most nominations in Globes history with 鈥淐abaret,鈥� from 1972. Robert Altman鈥檚 鈥淣ashville鈥� remains the record-holder with 11 nominations. It went into the morning as a favorite top, and got a big boost from its three original song nominations, including 鈥淚鈥檓 Just Ken,鈥� and one of the year鈥檚 new categories, recognizing cinematic and box office achievement. One person who was not nominated was America Ferrera, who delivered the movie鈥檚 most memorable monologue.
鈥淪uccession鈥� was the top-nominated television program, with nine nods including for series stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin.
The box office achievement category nominated eight films, including 鈥淭aylor Swift: The Eras Tour,鈥� 鈥淭he Super Mario Bros. Movie,鈥� 鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥� 鈥淪pider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,鈥� 鈥淢ission: Impossible -Dead Reckoning,鈥� 鈥淛ohn Wick: Chapter 4鈥� and 鈥淕uardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.鈥� Several years ago the Oscars attempted to add a similar 鈥減opular film鈥� category, but it proved to be an immensely unpopular decision and was scuttled amid backlash.
As always there were some big surprises, like Jennifer Lawrence getting nominated for her bawdy R-rated comedy 鈥淣o Hard Feelings鈥� for best performance by a female actor in a musical or comedy. She was nominated alongside Robbie, Stone and Fantasia Barrino (鈥淭he Color Purple鈥�), Natalie Portman (鈥淢ay December鈥�) and Alma P枚ysti (鈥淔allen Leaves鈥�).
鈥淭he Color Purple鈥� was expected to do better with the Golden Globes. The adaption of the stage musical got only two nominations total for Barrino and Danielle Brooks for her supporting performance.
Cord Jefferson鈥檚 comedy 鈥淎merican Fiction鈥� also came up with only two nods, best musical or comedy and for lead actor Jeffrey Wright.
Sofia Coppola鈥檚 widely acclaimed 鈥淧riscilla鈥� got only one nomination, for actor Cailee Spaeny鈥檚 portrayal of Priscilla Presley. Her category mates in best female performance in a drama include Gladstone, Annette Bening for 鈥淣yad,鈥� Sandra H眉ller for 鈥淎natomy of a Fall,鈥� Greta Lee for 鈥淧ast Lives鈥� and Carey Mulligan for 鈥淢aestro.鈥�
The Globes won鈥檛 have to worry about anyone criticizing its 鈥渁ll male鈥� directors this year, however. Gerwig was nominated as was Celine Song, for her romantic debut 鈥淧ast Lives,鈥� alongside Nolan, Scorsese, Cooper and Lanthimos.
Netflix got the most nominations overall, with 13 total for a slate which included 鈥淢aestro,鈥� 鈥淢ay December鈥� and 鈥淩ustin,鈥� followed by Warner Bros., which made 鈥淏arbie,鈥� 鈥淭he Super Mario Bros. Movie鈥� and 鈥淭he Color Purple鈥� with 12.
Ridley Scott鈥檚 鈥淣apoleon鈥� was not nominated at all. Instead, its star Joaquin Phoenix was recognized for 鈥淏eau is Afraid鈥� in the lead actor comedy/musical category, with Wright, Matt Damon (鈥淎ir鈥�), Nicolas Cage 鈥淒ream Scenario,鈥� Timoth茅e Chalamet (鈥淲onka鈥�) and Paul Giamatti (鈥淭he Holdovers鈥�). Michael Mann鈥檚 鈥淔errari,鈥� with Adam Driver, also got zero nominations.
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Here are a selection of other nominees:
Animated film: 鈥淭he Boy and the Heron鈥�; 鈥淓lemental鈥�; 鈥淪pider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse鈥�; 鈥淭he Super Mario Bros. Movie鈥�; 鈥淪uzume鈥�; 鈥淲ish.鈥�
Non-English language film: 鈥淎natomy of a Fall鈥�; 鈥淔allen Leaves鈥�; 鈥淚o Capitano鈥�; 鈥淧ast Lives鈥�; 鈥淪ociety of the Snow鈥�; 鈥淭he Zone of Interest.鈥�
Best actor in a television drama: Brian Cox, 鈥淪uccession鈥�; Kieran Culkin, 鈥淪uccession鈥�; Gary Oldman, 鈥淪low Horses鈥�; Pedro Pascal, 鈥淭he Last of Us鈥�; Jeremy Strong, 鈥淪uccession鈥�; Dominic West, 鈥淭he Crown.鈥�
Female actor in a television comedy: Rachel Brosnahan, 鈥淭he Marvelous Mrs. Maisel鈥�; Quinta Brunson, 鈥淎bbott Elementary鈥�; Ayo Edebiri, 鈥淭he Bear鈥�; Elle Fanning, 鈥淭he Great鈥�; Selena Gomez, 鈥淥nly Murders in the Building鈥�; Natasha Lyonne, 鈥淧oker Face.鈥�
Male actor in a television comedy: Bill Hader, 鈥淏arry鈥�; Steve Martin, 鈥淥nly Murders in the Building鈥�; Jason Segel, 鈥淪hrinking鈥�; Martin Short, 鈥淥nly Murders in the Building鈥�; Jason Sudeikis, 鈥淭ed Lasso鈥�; Jeremy Allen White, 鈥淭he Bear.鈥�
Screenplay: 鈥淎natomy of a Fall鈥�; 鈥淏arbie鈥�; 鈥淧oor Things鈥�; 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥�; 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥�; 鈥淧ast Lives.鈥�
Best stand-up comedy television special: Ricky Gervais, 鈥淎rmageddon鈥�; Trevor Noah, 鈥淲here Was I鈥�; Chris Rock, 鈥淪elective Outrage鈥�; Amy Schumer, 鈥淓mergency Contact鈥�; Sarah Silverman, 鈥淪omeone You Love鈥�; Wanda Sykes, 鈥淚鈥檓 an Entertainer.鈥�
WHAT鈥橲 NEW WITH THE GOLDEN GLOBES?
The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of awards season, with a . And while to audiences it might look similar on the surface, it鈥檚 been tumultuous few years behind the scenes following a bombshell report in the Los Angeles Times. The 2021 report found that there were in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on the awards.
Stars and studios boycotted the Globes and NBC refused to air it in 2022 as a result. After the group added journalists of color to its ranks and instituted other reforms to address ethical concerns, the in January 2023 in a one-year probationary agreement with NBC. The network did not opt to renew.
In June, billionaire Todd Boehly was granted approval to dissolve the HFPA and reinvent the Golden Globes as a for-profit organization. Its assets were acquired by Boehly鈥檚 Eldridge Industries, along with Dick Clark Productions, a group that is owned by Penske Media whose assets also include Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone and Billboard. In mid-November, CBS announced that it would air the ceremony on the network on Jan. 7. It will also stream on Paramount+.
WHAT ARE THE GLOBES KNOWN FOR?
The Golden Globe Awards had long been one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars.
The show was touted as a boozy, A-list party, whose hosts often took a more irreverent tone than their academy counterparts. It also only honored the flashiest filmmaking categories 鈥� picture, director, actors among them 鈥� meaning no long speeches from visual effects supervisors or directors of shorts no one has heard of.
But the voting body was a small group of around 87 members who wielded incredible influence in the industry and often accepted lavish gifts and travel from studios and awards publicists eager to court favor and win votes.
Some years, the HFPA were pilloried for nominating poorly reviewed films with big name talent with hopes of getting them to the show, the most infamous being 鈥淭he Tourist,鈥� with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. In the past decade, they鈥檝e more often overlapped with the Oscars. The show also recognizes television.
Before the expose and public relations crisis though, no one in the industry took much umbrage with who was voting on the awards. The show had become an important part of the Hollywood awards ecosystem, a platform for Oscar hopefuls and was, until recently, a reliable ratings draw. As of 2019, it was still pulling in nearly 19 million viewers to the broadcast. This year, NBC鈥檚 Tuesday night broadcast got its smallest audience ever for a traditional broadcast, with 6.3 million viewers.
WHO VOTES ON THE GLOBES?
The group nominating and voting for the awards is now made up of a more diverse group of over 300 people from around the world.
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
