“Emilia Perez,” Jacques Audiard’s daring musical about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to become a woman, led the nominations at the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring 10 nods to lead the way over other contenders such as the musical smash, “WW.” the papal thriller “Conclave” and the postwar epic “The Brutalist.”
The nominations for the Globes, which will be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+ on Jan. 5, were announced Monday morning by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut.
The controversial Globes, which are not presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are still in comeback mode after years of scandal and organizational upheaval. Working on the Globes side this year: An especially star-studded field of nominees. Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Denzel Washington, Ariana Grande, Glenn Powell and Selena Gomez were all nominated.
The young Donald Trump drama “The Apprentice” also brought in nominations for its two central performances, Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. The president-elect has called “The Apprentice” a “politically despicable hatchet job” made by “human scum.”
It remains to be seen how much the recent presidential election will bring to Hollywood’s awards season. At the first awards ceremony of the season, the Gotham Awards, Trump went unmentioned but occasionally alluded to it. Stein also received a nomination on Monday for the dark comedy “A Different Man.”
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While “Oppenheimer” and, to a lesser extent, “Barbie,” entered the Globes nominations as the clear heavyweights of the awards season, no such front-runner emerged this year. The Globes are often not aligned with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, a much larger group that more closely reflects the film industry. But they can give movies a big boost, and ripe fodder for their awards marketing.
Following “Emilia Perez,” Brady Corbett’s “The Brutalist” took home seven nominations, including best picture, drama, and acting nods for Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce. The soon-to-be-released film from A24, with a runtime of three-and-a-half hours, is unusually ambitious, including interludes.
Behind it was Edward Berger’s “Conclave”, in which Ralph Fiennes was tasked with leading the conclave to elect a new Pope. It garnered six nominations, including best picture, drama, and acting nods for Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” starring Mickey Madison as a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, was nominated for five awards, including best picture, comedy or musical, and best actress for Madison. Best Supporting Actor for Yura Borisov.
The Golden Globes will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, who earned her own nomination for Outstanding Stand-Up Special. CBS, which began airing the Globes under a new deal last year, hopes Glazer manages to do better than last year’s emcee, Joe Coy, whose tenure was widely panned.
Here are the details of the candidature:
Who are this year’s Globes nominees?
Nominations for Best Motion Picture Drama are: “The Brutalist”; “a complete unknown,”; “The Conclave”; “Dunes: Part Two”; “The Nickel Boys;” “September 5th.”
Nominations for best motion picture musical or comedy are: “Wicked”; “Anora”; “Emilia Perez”; “Challenges”; “a real pain”; “Substance.”
The nominees for best actor in a motion picture musical or comedy are: Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”; Hugh Grant, “Heretic”; Gabriel LaBelle, “Saturday Night; Jesse Plemons, “Kinds of Mercy” Glenn Powell, “Hitman”; Sebastian Stein, “A Different Man.”
Nominees for Best Animated Film are: “Flow”; “Inside Out 2”; “Memoirs of a Snail”; “Moana 2”; “Wallace and Gromit: Revenge Most Foul”; “Wild Robot.”
Nominees for cinematic and box office achievement are: “Alien: Romulus”; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”; Deadpool and Wolverine”; “Gladiator II”; “Inside Out 2”; “Twisters”; “wicked”; “Wild Robot.”
Nominees for Best Original Score: “Conclave”; “The Brutalist”; “Wild Robot”; “Emilia Perez”; “Challenges”; “Dune: Part Two.”
How about TV categories?
Nominees for Best Television Drama are: “Shogun”; “The Diplomat”; “Slow Horses”; “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”; “The Day of the Jackal”; “The Squid Game.”
The nominees for TV series (comedy or musical) are: “Abbott Elementary”; “Bear; “Hacks”; “Nobody Wants This”; “Only Murder in the Building”; “Gentlemen.”
Nominees for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series are: Donald Glover, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”; Jake Gyllenhaal, “Flawless Guess”; Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”; Eddie Redmayne, “The Day of the Fox”; Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shogun”; Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman.”
Nominees for actress in a comedy series are: Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants It”; Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”; Ayo Adebiri, “The Bear”; Selena Gomez, “Only Murder in the Building”; Kathryn Hahn, “Agatha All Along”; Gene Smart, “Hacks.”
What’s new this year?
Last year, the Globes introduced two new categories that remain this time around: the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Awards and the Outstanding Performance in a Stand-Up Comedy on Television. This time there is a tweak to the Lifetime Achievement Award. This year, those are going to Ted Danson (for the Carol Burnett Award) and Viola Davis (for the Cecil B. DeMille Award). They will be handed out at a gala dinner on Friday, January 3, several days before the Globes.
What’s the deal with the Golden Globes, anyway?
The Globes are never drama-free, but things have settled down for the controversial awards body. Last year’s Globes were the first since the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was dissolved and acquired by Dick Clark Productions and billionaire Todd Bohley’s private equity firm Aldridge Industries. However, earlier this fall, Enkler reported that former members of the HFPA filed a letter with the California Attorney General’s office questioning the “legality of the purchase.”