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“The Shape of Water,” “The Post,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri” and “Lady Bird” all received multiple nominations. There were surprises and snubs.
• In the TV categories, expected nominees like “Big Little Lies” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” were joined by newcomers like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
Golden
Globes voters nominated a wide mix of movies on Monday, pulling smaller
dramas like “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” deeper into the
Oscar race, throwing support to Ridley Scott’s last-minute effort to
erase Kevin Spacey from “All the Money in the World” and embracing
diversity among the nominees.
But there were also prominent snubs.
“The Big Sick,” which was expected to get Globes love in the best
comedy and screenplay categories, among others, was completely ignored.
And among television shows, “Veep” and “Transparent” were unexpectedly
not invited.
The
largest number of movie nominations — seven — went to Guillermo del
Toro’s fantasy “The Shape of Water,” including ones for best drama,
director, actress (Sally Hawkins), supporting actress (Octavia Spencer)
and supporting actor (Richard Jenkins). Close behind with six apiece
were “The Post,” a Watergate-era drama about the struggles of Katharine
Graham to lead The Washington Post, and “Three Billboards,” about a
mother (Frances McDormand, a nominee for best actress) who pushes local
authorities to investigate her daughter’s murder.
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All
of those films come from 20th Century Fox, which led film companies
with 27 nominations, including 15 from its Fox Searchlight specialty
label.
“All
three come from filmmakers with something important to say —
uncompromised, singular, strong, auteur voices,” said Stacey Snider,
Fox’s movie chief. “I’m proud that we have differentiated ourselves as a
place for that kind of filmmaking.”
The
other nominees for best drama were “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s World
War II epic, and the romance “Call Me by Your Name.” Voters also gave
Mr. Nolan a directing nod but unexpectedly disregarded the “Call Me by
Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.
Long
seen as the most unserious stop on Hollywood’s awards circuit, the
Golden Globes are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
a group of mostly freelance journalists, only 89 of whom vote. Studios
see members as easy to manipulate, a reputation the group contends is
long outdated. (A lawsuit in 2011 alleged payola and kickbacks. The organization settled out of court.)
And
top prizes are split into dramatic and comedic categories, often in
confounding ways. This time around, the satirical horror film “Get Out”
was nominated in the best musical or comedy category. (Its backers at
Universal submitted it there, hoping to improve its chances, creating an internet brush fire
last month.) “Get Out” will compete against the P.T. Barnum musical
“The Greatest Showman”; the figure-skating dark comedy “I, Tonya”; the
movie-about-a-movie “The Disaster Artist”; and Greta Gerwig’s
coming-of-age comedic drama “Lady Bird,” which drew four nominations.
But
timing is everything in show business, and Academy Award voters (some
8,400) cannot help but pay attention to the Globes. The 75th Globes
ceremony will be hosted by Seth Meyers and broadcast live on NBC on Jan.
7. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce Oscar
nominations on Jan. 23.
The Oscar race, the first in nearly 30 years without Harvey Weinstein pulling strings, has so far been a free-for-all, with “The Post,” “Dunkirk,” “Call Me by Your Name,” “Lady Bird” and others jockeying for position.
Among
television categories, HBO’s “Big Little Lies” emerged as the one to
beat on Monday, taking six nominations, including for best limited
series and all four of its actresses — Reese Witherspoon and Nicole
Kidman in the lead category and Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley in
supporting. “Big Little Lies” helped push HBO to 12 total nominations,
the most of any television network.
Netflix
was second with nine, including best drama nods for “The Crown” and
“Stranger Things.” Other best drama candidates were the usual suspects:
“Game of Thrones,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “This Is Us.” Best comedy
nominations went to “Will & Grace,” “black-ish,” “Master of None” —
all expected — and two new series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
on Amazon (the latest from the “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy
Sherman-Palladino) and “SMILF,” a Showtime series that stars Frankie
Shaw as a working-class single mother in Boston.
The
nominations were announced by Alfre Woodard, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen
Bell and Sharon Stone in a pre-dawn presentation at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel timed for the East Coast-based morning news shows. The press
association handed out Champagne before 5 a.m. Pacific Time to toast the
75th anniversary of the awards.
‘The Post’ Makes Headlines
This movie,
which looks at Mrs. Graham’s role in publishing the Pentagon Papers,
has been trying to hang back: It won’t arrive in wide release until Jan.
12. But early buzz has been strong — the National Board of Review named it the best film of the year
— and Globes voters turned it white hot with nominations in the big
four categories: best drama, director (Steven Spielberg), actress (Meryl
Streep) and actor (Tom Hanks).
“The Post” also picked up nominations for its screenplay, written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, and the score by John Williams.
Recognition for ‘All the Money in the World’
Because
the press association gives a prize for best drama and best comedy,
Hollywood often looks to directing nominees for clues about what film
truly rose to the top at the Globes. Joining Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Nolan
and Mr. del Toro were Martin McDonagh, who wrote and directed “Three
Billboards,” and Mr. Scott, who abruptly reshot portions of his
kidnapping thriller “All the Money in the World” after one of its
original stars, Mr. Spacey, became embroiled in a sexual misconduct
scandal.
Mr.
Spacey’s replacement, Christopher Plummer, received a nomination for
his supporting role. In a surprise, Michelle Williams, who stars in “All
the Money in the World” as the desperate mother of J. Paul Getty III,
who was kidnapped in 1973, was nominated alongside Ms. Streep, Ms.
McDormand and Ms. Hawkins as best dramatic actress. Jessica Chastain
(“Molly’s Game”) filled out that category.
A Diverse List of Nominees
If you trust the handicappers at Gold Derby,
an entertainment honors site, this year’s Academy Award nominations
could be #OscarsSoWhite all over again. The prognosticators indicate
there’s a possibility that only the supporting actress category would
feature an actor of color: Mary J. Blige, for her sagacious matriarch in “Mudbound,” a Netflix drama about racial tension in rural Mississippi in the 1940s.
She
received two nominations on Monday — the second for contributing lyrics
to a “Mudbound” song — and was joined in the best supporting actress
category by Hong Chau,
a scene stealer in the social satire “Downsizing,” and Ms. Spencer, a
former Oscar winner who plays a brash janitor in “The Shape of Water.”
Daniel Kaluuya, who helped propel “Get Out” to box-office heights,
was nominated for best actor in a musical or comedy. Denzel Washington
got a best drama actor nod for his offbeat lawyer in “Roman J. Israel,
Esq.”
The
press association has worked hard in recent years to jettison its
reputation for oddball nominations that were interpreted more as efforts
to populate its televised banquet with stars than honor the year’s best
performances. The list on Monday contained no outright embarrassments.
But there were some nods that assured pretty young faces: Ansel Elgort,
an acting nominee for “Baby Driver,” for instance.
Foreign
film nominees were Angelina Jolie’s “First They Killed My Father”
(Cambodia), “A Fantastic Woman” (Chile), “In the Fade” (Germany and
France”) “Loveless” (Russia) and “The Square” (Sweden, Germany and
France).
Old and New Recognized in TV
Globes
voters like to make agenda-setting choices with their television
awards. They paid early attention to “Transparent,” “Mr. Robot” and “The
Crown,” helping to catapult those series into the cultural firmament.
But Emmys voters may have beaten them to the punch this year.
At the most recent Emmy Awards,
multiple trophies went to rookie shows like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and
“Big Little Lies,” both of which received numerous Globes nominations.
But
Globes voters also bestowed multiple nominations on “The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel” and “SMILF.” They even found ways to throw attention toward the
new ABC hit “The Good Doctor,” which has received middling reviews,
honoring its star, Freddie Highmore, in the best actor category. Joining
him is Jason Bateman — nominated for his work in the new Netflix crime
series “Ozark” — Sterling K. Brown (“This is Us”), Bob Odenkirk (“Better
Call Saul”) and Liev Schreiber (“Ray Donovan”).
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