NEWS GOLDEN GLOBES 2021
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Here are the films, television shows, actors and directors chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The 78th Golden Globe Awards are scheduled for Feb. 28 and will be shown on NBC. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will return to host the ceremony, which they last led in 2015.
The Golden Globes typically take place in January. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the awards, pushed the ceremony to February this year, citing the coronavirus pandemic.
Streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon, dominated the list of nominees, both with their own films — like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “One Night in Miami,” which wouldn’t have relied on open movie theaters to find eyeballs even during a standard year — and with movies that the streaming companies purchased from traditional studios, including Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” The streaming services also did well in the television categories: Netflix hits like “The Queen’s Gambit” undoubtedly benefited from having a captive audience over the past year.
“The Queen’s Gambit undoubtedly benefited from having a captive audience over the past year."
See the list of nominees below:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
- "The Father”
- “Mank”
- “Nomadland”
- “Promising Young Woman”
- “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
- "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
- “Hamilton”
- “Music”
- “Palm Springs”
- “The Prom”
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The streaming service received a jaw-dropping 42 nominations, in a year where almost every film in contention has been released online. Three women were nominated for best director, a first.
Awards season has begun, with a diverse slate of nominees.
Golden Globe nominators pulled David Fincher’s sleepy “Mank” and the revenge-driven “Promising Young Woman” deeper into the Oscar race on Wednesday, while embracing female directors, reacting somewhat coolly to Black ensemble films and, as ever, sprinkling honors on a wide range of stars, from first-timers to living legends.The Golden Globes have always been a peculiar ritual. The statues are awarded by a clandestine group of foreign journalists, only 89 of whom vote. Top prizes are split into dramatic and comedic categories, often in confounding ways. Rather bizarrely, foreign-language films are not allowed to compete for the most prestigious awards.
This year, however, the surreal nature of the affair has been heightened by a pandemic-era question: The Globes are actually happening? Almost every film in contention has been released online or is still awaiting release. Many
cinemas have now been closed for 11 month.
The black-and-white “Mank,” a tale of Old Hollywood, led the nominations with six, including one for best drama. It will compete against “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Nomadland,” “The Father” and, in a surprise, “Promising Young Woman.” Shut out of the best drama race was the Netflix critical favorite “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” although Globes voters recognized the lead performances by Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis. In general, films with primarily Black casts did not receive as many nominations as awards handicappers had expected, and Spike Lee’s war drama “Da 5 Bloods” was completely snubbed. (His children, Satchel and Jackson, will serve as Golden Globe Ambassadors, a job that traditionally involves politely shooing winners off the stage.)
Competing for best comedy or musical of the year will be “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “Hamilton,” “Palm Springs,” “The Prom” and — out of nowhere —
“Music,” a coming video-on-demand film by Sia about a young woman on the autism spectrum. Sia’s film, which has been contentious among advocates for those with autism, focuses on a low-functioning teenager being cared for by her newly sober, drug-dealing sister (played by Kate Hudson, who was nominated for best actress in a comedy or musical).
Notable acting nominees included the fast-rising Anya Taylor-Joy, who was honored in the film categories for “Emma” and on the TV side for “The Queen’s Gambit.” Sacha Baron Cohen was also a double acting nominee, recognized for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” two polar-opposite roles. He picked up a third mention as a “Borat” producer.
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Over all, Black-led dramas were snubbed. Among the surprise inclusions were Jared Leto for “The Little Things” and Kate Hudson for Sia’s “Music.”
With the Golden Globes, it’s best to expect the unexpected, and during an awards season this atypical, there’s an even higher chance of weird and wacky nominations. That’s why, though major movies like “Nomadland” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” scored when the Golden Globe nominations were announced on Wednesday, it’s the out-of-left-field picks and startling exclusions that have everybody in Hollywood talking.
Here are some of the Globes’ most notable snubs and surprises.
The Biggest Snubs
“Da 5 Bloods”
Just two years after the Golden Globes gave Spike Lee a nice spread of four nominations for “BlacKkKlansman,” the group brutally snubbed his new film across the board: Lee’s Vietnam-veteran drama “Da 5 Bloods” earned no acting nominations (for Delroy Lindo or Chadwick Boseman) and was blanked in the drama, director, and screenplay categories, too. Making things even more awkward? Lee’s children Satchel and Jackson were chosen to serve as Golden Globe ambassadors this year, of all years.
Black-led dramas
In a marquee year for Black ensemble films like “One Night in Miami,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the Golden Globes picked absolutely none of them for the best-drama final five, instead selecting “Nomadland,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “The Father,” “Mank” and “Promising Young Woman.” (The same five movies were nominated in the screenplay category, too.) Though “One Night in Miami” scored a director nomination for Regina King, and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” earned key acting nominations, their exclusion from the top category is still eyebrow-raising.
Meryl Streep
The Golden Globes love Meryl Streep — she is, by far, the most nominated person in the history of this awards show. (They are so eager to nominate Streep that even including her name in this article may have made it eligible for a raft of nominations — I’ll have to check!) And yet, in a year where Streep could have collected two new best-actress nods for her comic work in “The Prom” and “Let Them All Talk,” the Globes pointedly excluded her from the Zoom invite.
The actors of “Minari”
The Golden Globes continue to abide by an archaic rule that shunts an American film like “Minari” to the foreign-language film category simply because of the amount of Korean dialogue. The same problem befell “The Farewell” last year, though that film at least managed one other nomination in the best actress in a comedy or musical category, which Awkwafina ended up winning. While the family drama “Minari” can boast two critically acclaimed performances by Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-Jung, it earned nominations for neither.
By Kyle Buchanan