(AP) – Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” a few Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgical procedure, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring 10 nods to guide it over different contenders just like the musical smash “Depraved,” the papal thriller “Conclave” and the postwar epic “The Brutalist.”
The nominations for the Globes, which shall be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+ on Jan. 5, have been introduced on Monday morning by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut.
The embattled Globes, that are not offered by the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, are nonetheless in comeback mode after years of scandal and organizational upheaval. Working within the Globes favor this yr: a particularly starry discipline of nominees. Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Denzel Washington, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Glen Powell and Selena Gomez all scored nominations.
The younger Donald Trump drama “The Apprentice” additionally landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Robust as Roy Cohn. The president elect has referred to as “The Apprentice” a “politically disgusting hatchet job” made by “human scum.”
How a lot the latest president election will determine into Hollywood’s awards season stays to be seen. Within the season’s first awards ceremony, the Gotham Awards, Trump went unmentioned however generally alluded to. Stan additionally acquired a nomination Monday for the darkish comedy “A Totally different Man.”
Whereas “Oppenheimer” and, to a lesser diploma, “Barbie,” sailed into the Globes nominations because the clear heavyweights of awards season, no such frontrunner has emerged this yr — and, apart from “Depraved,” many of the contenders are far lighter on field workplace. The Globes don’t typically align with the Academy of Movement Footage Arts and Sciences, a a lot bigger group that way more intently displays the movie business. However they may give films a serious increase, and ripe fodder for his or her awards advertising.
Netflix dominates
Netflix, which acquired “Emilia Pérez” after its Cannes Movie Competition debut, dominated the nominations, main all studios in each movie nods (13) and within the TV classes (23).
“Emilia Pérez,” an operatic genre-skipping film that mixes components of a narco thriller, a Broadway musical and a trans drama, scored nominations for its three stars: Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Gomez. No comedy or musical has ever acquired extra Globe nominations.
Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” landed seven nominations, together with greatest image, drama, and performing nods for Adrien Brody and Man Pearce. The soon-to-be-released movie, from A24, is uncommonly bold, with a runtime of three-and-a-half hours, together with an intermission.
A24 narrowly trailed Netflix within the movie classes, scoring 12 nominations total, together with greatest actor, drama, for Hugh Grant’s darkest flip but within the horror movie “Heretic.” Grant, in a press release, thanked the administrators, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods “for recognizing my have to kill.”
Shut behind it was Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal tasked with main the conclave to elect a brand new pope. It landed six nominations, together with greatest image, drama, and performing nods for Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” starring Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn intercourse employee who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, was nominated for 5 awards, together with greatest image, comedy or musical, and greatest feminine actor for Madison and greatest supporting actor for Yura Borisov.
The Globes shall be hosted by comic Nikki Glaser, who scored her personal nomination for greatest stand-up particular. CBS, which started airing the Globes final yr on a brand new deal, will hope Glaser manages to do higher than final yr’s emcee, Jo Koy, whose stint was broadly panned.
Who’re this yr’s high Globes nominees?
The nominees for greatest movement image drama are: “The Brutalist”; “A Full Unknown,”; “Conclave”; “Dune: Half Two”; “Nickel Boys;” “September 5.”
The nominees for greatest movie musical or comedy are: “Depraved”; “Anora”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Challengers”; “A Actual Ache”; “The Substance.”
What stood out?
Coralie Fargeat’s gory physique horror satire “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore as an actress who resorts to extremes to remain younger in a Hollywood obsessive about younger magnificence, landed 5 nominations total, together with nods for each Moore and her youthful doppelganger, Margaret Qualley.
Amongst animated films, DreamWorks’ “The Wild Robotic” additionally had an particularly good day. The story of the shipwrecked robotic got here away with 4 nominations, together with one for cinematic and field workplace achievement, a comparatively new class populated by massive ticket-sellers like “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Inside Out 2.” The robust exhibiting suggests the opposite animated nominees — “Move,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail,” “Moana 2,” “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — could have a tough time besting “The Wild Robotic.”
The Bob Dylan movie “A Full Unknown,” starring Chalamet, additionally had quite a bit to have fun. Coming off an endorsement from Dylan, himself, the movie landed nominations for Chalamet, Edward Norton (who performs Woody Guthrie) and greatest image, drama.
Pamela Anderson additionally landed her first Golden Globe nomination. In “The Final Showgirl,” Anderson performs an growing old Las Vegas showgirl, a efficiency that’s led to the perfect opinions of Anderson’s profession. She was nominated for greatest feminine actor, drama, alongside Jolie (“Maria”), Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Tilda Swinton (“The Room Subsequent Door”), Fernanda Torres (“I’m Nonetheless Right here”) and — in a shock — Kate Winslet (“Lee”).
Anderson, reached by video convention Monday, mentioned she put her complete life into the movie.
“I used to be making pickles and jam. I didn’t assume I’d be doing any extra on this business,” mentioned Anderson. “I used to be slightly upset in myself and was sort of reassessing a few of my life decisions. However then this got here up.”
How in regards to the TV classes?
“The Bear,” which dominated the 2024 Globes, led all collection with 5 nominations for its third season. That included nods for Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Liza Colón-Zayas and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Its stiffest competitors this yr may come within the FX collection “Shogun” (4 nominations, together with performing nods for Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada) or Apple TV’s “Gradual Horses” (nods for Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden).
“Solely Murders within the Constructing” once more led the comedy or musical class, with nominations for it stars Steve Martin, Martin Brief and Gomez, her second nomination to go together with hers for “Emilia Pérez.”
What’s the cope with the Golden Globes, anyway?
The Globes aren’t ever fairly drama-free, however issues have settled down for the embattled awards physique. After The Los Angeles Occasions reported that the HFPA voters included no Black members, amongst different points, most of Hollywood boycotted the present and the 2022 ceremony was scrapped.
Final January’s Globes have been the primary after the disbanding of the HFPA and their acquisition by Dick Clark Productions and billionaire Todd Boehly’s non-public fairness agency Eldridge Industries. Nonetheless, earlier this fall, the Ankler reported that former members of the HFPA filed a letter with the California legal professional basic’s workplace questioning “the validity of the acquisition.”
Although the 2024 Globes have been largely panned, rankings improved. In keeping with Nielsen, some 9.5 million watched, main CBS to present the present a five-year deal.
What’s new this yr?
Final yr, the Globes launched two new classes that stay this time round: the cinematic and field workplace achievement award and the perfect efficiency in stand-up comedy on tv. One tweak this time comes within the lifetime achievement awards. This yr, these are going to Ted Danson (for the Carol Burnett Award) and Viola Davis (for the Cecil B. DeMille Award). These shall be handed out in a gala dinner on Friday, Jan. 3, two days earlier than the Globes.
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AP’s Ryan Pearson in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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