Hollywood’s awards season heats up Sunday on the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez” – a couple of Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a lady – main the cost.
Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying movie earned 10 nominations, probably the most ever for a musical or comedy movie, together with for star transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who performs the title character, in addition to co-stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.
‘Far and away the favorite’
“Emilia Perez” – which is nearly totally in Spanish – is hoping to throw down the gauntlet within the race to the Academy Awards, which is able to happen in early March.
“The far and away favorite right here getting into has obtained to be ‘Emilia Perez’,” Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond advised AFP.
“I believe it’s obtained the worldwide factor going for it, and it simply swept the European Movie Awards.”
The Golden Globes supply separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals – widening the sector of stars who will stroll the purple carpet, and in addition providing extra choices for Academy voters set to quickly forged ballots for the Oscar nominations.
“Emilia Perez” began its march in direction of Hollywood glory on the Cannes movie competition, the place it received the Jury Prize.
Different nods for the movie, which is streaming on Netflix after debuting in theaters, embody greatest director, two entries for greatest authentic music, greatest rating, greatest non-English language movie, greatest screenplay, and greatest comedy or musical movie.
It would compete for prime musical-comedy honors with smash hit “Depraved,” Cannes darling “Anora,” tennis love-triangle movie “Challengers,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Actual Ache,” and physique horror movie “The Substance” starring Demi Moore.
“Depraved,” the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earned 4 nominations, together with for pop sensation Ariana Grande because the bubbly pink-clad Glinda and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo because the green-skinned Elphaba.
Hammond stated he believed “Depraved” can be at a “drawback” on the Globes, given its lack of nominations in key classes, however he favours Erivo to take house the prize for greatest lead actress.
She is going to compete with Gascon, “Anora” star Mikey Madison, Amy Adams (“Nightbitch”), Moore and “Challengers” star Zendaya.
Hammond calls “The Substance” his darkish horse of the season, and says its message in regards to the perils of growing old in Hollywood may resonate with voters.
‘Brutalist’ vs ‘Conclave’
The Globes are in yr two of a revamp, following a Los Angeles Occasions expose in 2021 that confirmed that the awards’ voting physique – the Hollywood International Press Affiliation – had no black members.
Now below new possession, and with the HFPA disbanded, organisers are hoping to capitalize on a rankings bump registered final January, and even perhaps burnish the gala’s standing as a predictor of Oscars success.
Hammond says the reorganization shines by way of with nominees like “The Brutalist,” starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the US.
The Globes are “undoubtedly extra worldwide. They’re extra open to totally different sorts of flicks,” he stated, citing “The Brutalist” – which earned seven nominations, behind “Emilia Perez” – for example.
It would do battle with papal drama “Conclave,” a fictionalised account of high-stakes Holy See horse-trading, depicting how the loss of life of a pope sends the church’s numerous factions into battle for its future. It’s based mostly on a novel by Robert Harris.
“Conclave” star Ralph Fiennes earned one of many movie’s six nominations.
The 2 favorites will compete for the very best drama prize with Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown,” sci-fi epic “Dune: Half Two,” “Nickel Boys,” and “September 5,” a have a look at the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage disaster from the media perspective.
“All of that is occurring three days earlier than the Oscars ballots go dwell,” Hammond stated.
“So this actually might be influential in a decent yr the place these items may go any which manner.”
The Globes additionally honor the very best in tv, with comedy “The Bear” incomes 5 nominations, and historic epic “Shogun” and comedy “Solely Murders within the Constructing” tied at 4.
Comic Nikki Glaser will host Sunday’s gala in Beverly Hills.
Record of key Golden Globe nominees
Listed below are the nominees in key classes for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, which will likely be handed out on Sunday.
Surreal musical “Emilia Perez” leads all contenders with 10 nods, adopted by “The Brutalist” at seven and “Conclave” at six.
FILM
Greatest movie, drama
“The Brutalist”
Promoting
“A Full Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Half Two”
“Nickel Boys”
“September 5”
Greatest movie, musical or comedy
“Anora”
“Challengers”
“Emilia Perez”
“A Actual Ache”
“The Substance”
“Depraved”
Greatest actor, drama
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Timothee Chalamet, “A Full Unknown”
Daniel Craig, “Queer”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Greatest actress, drama
Pamela Anderson, “The Final Showgirl”
Angelina Jolie, “Maria”
Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”
Tilda Swinton, “The Room Subsequent Door”
Fernanda Torres, “I’m Nonetheless Right here”
Kate Winslet, “Lee”
Greatest actor, musical or comedy
Jesse Eisenberg, “A Actual Ache”
Hugh Grant, “Heretic”
Gabriel LaBelle, “Saturday Night time”
Jesse Plemons, “Sorts of Kindness”
Glen Powell, “Hit Man”
Sebastian Stan, “A Completely different Man”
Greatest actress, musical or comedy
Amy Adams, “Nightbitch”
Cynthia Erivo, “Depraved”
Karla Sofia Gascon, “Emilia Perez”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Zendaya, “Challengers”
Greatest supporting actor
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “A Actual Ache”
Edward Norton, “A Full Unknown”
Man Pearce, “The Brutalist”
Jeremy Sturdy, “The Apprentice”
Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II”
Greatest supporting actress
Selena Gomez, “Emilia Perez”
Ariana Grande, “Depraved”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Margaret Qualley, “The Substance”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Perez”
Greatest director
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Perez”
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Edward Berger, “Conclave”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
Payal Kapadia, “All We Think about as Gentle”
Greatest non-English language movie
“All We Think about as Gentle”
“Emilia Perez”
“The Lady with the Needle”
“I’m Nonetheless Right here”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
“Vermiglio”
Greatest cinematic and field workplace achievement
“Alien: Romulus”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Gladiator II”
“Inside Out 2”
“Twisters”
“Depraved”
“The Wild Robotic”
Greatest animated function
“Circulation”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Moana 2”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robotic”
TELEVISION
Greatest drama collection
“The Day of the Jackal”
“The Diplomat”
“Mr & Mrs Smith”
“Shogun”
“Sluggish Horses”
“Squid Sport”
Greatest drama actor
Donald Glover, “Mr & Mrs Smith”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Presumed Harmless”
Gary Oldman, “Sluggish Horses”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Day of the Jackal”
Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shogun”
Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman”
Greatest drama actress
Kathy Bates, “Matlock”
Emma D’Arcy, “Home of the Dragon”
Maya Erskine, “Mr & Mrs Smith”
Keira Knightley, “Black Doves”
Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
Anna Sawai, “Shogun”
Greatest musical or comedy collection
“Abbott Elementary”
“The Bear”
“The Gents”
“Hacks”
“No one Needs This”
“Solely Murders within the Constructing”
Greatest musical or comedy actor
Adam Brody, “No one Needs This”
Ted Danson, “A Man on the Inside”
Steve Martin, “Solely Murders within the Constructing”
Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
Martin Brief, “Solely Murders within the Constructing”
Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
Greatest musical or comedy actress
Kristen Bell, “No one Needs This”
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
Selena Gomez, “Solely Murders within the Constructing”
Kathryn Hahn, “Agatha All Alongside”
Jean Good, “Hacks”
Greatest restricted collection or TV film
“Child Reindeer”
“Disclaimer”
“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
“The Penguin”
“Ripley”
“True Detective: Night time Nation”
Greatest restricted collection or TV film actor
Colin Farrell, “The Penguin”
Richard Gadd, “Child Reindeer”
Kevin Kline, “Disclaimer”
Cooper Koch, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
Ewan McGregor, “A Gentleman in Moscow”
Andrew Scott, “Ripley”
Greatest restricted collection or TV film actress
Cate Blanchett, “Disclaimer”
Jodie Foster, “True Detective: Night time Nation”
Cristin Milioti, “The Penguin”
Sofia Vergara, “Griselda”
Naomi Watts, “Feud: Capote vs the Swans”
Kate Winslet, “The Regime”
Greatest efficiency in stand-up comedy on tv
Jamie Foxx, “Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was”
Nikki Glaser, “Nikki Glaser: Sometime You’ll Die”
Seth Meyers, “Seth Meyers: Dad Man Strolling”
Adam Sandler, “Adam Sandler: Love You”
Ali Wong, “Ali Wong: Single Girl”
Ramy Youssef, “Ramy Youssef: Extra Emotions”
FILMS WITH MOST NOMINATIONS
“Emilia Perez” – 10
“The Brutalist” – 7
“Conclave” – 6
“Anora” – 5
“The Substance” – 5
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