82nd Golden Globe Nominations

The Globes seem to be going the same direction as the other two televised awards shows by going for 6 nominees in each category. The Globes already had too many bites at the Oscar-prognosticating apple and now they want more. The only major surprise so far was Payal Kapadia making it into the Best Director slate over Jon M. Chu. It was thought Wicked would be stronger than this and it’s doing well enough but not nearly as well as it could be. Several late releases aren’t showing up here as they are going for several films that released earlier in the year or films that played major festivals as all of the directing slate seems to be.

Speaking of Wicked, it only picked up four nominations, which belies its strength. The misses in Director, Screenplay, and Supporting Actor suggest a weakness. Of course, it was probably one of the last films Globes voters saw (if they even watched it), so it’s possible this is a fluke. Also a fluke is the fact that the Drama Actress category is filled with nominees that are their film’s only nomination with, strangely, Fernanda Torres from I’m Still Here being the only one whose film has one other nomination. Anora and The Substance did well in the Comedy/Musical category, which is strange considering their subjects. The international flavor of these nominations is very obvious with so many nominations outside of the non-English language film category. We may be seeing what an unfettered Globe voting body will do, though these are still very prognosticaty.

Nominations Tallies

(10) Emilia Pérez
(7) The Brutalist
(6) Conclave
(5) Anora, The Substance
(4) Challengers, A Real Pain, The Wild Robot, Wicked
(3) A Complete Unknown
(2) All We Imagine as Light, The Apprentice, Dune: Part Two, Gladiator II, I’m Still Here, Inside Out 2, The Last Showgirl
(1) Alien: Romulus, Babygirl, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Better Man, Deadpool & Wolverine, A Different Man, Flow, The Girl with the Needle, Heretic, Hit Man, Kinds of Kindness, Lee, Maria, Memoir of a Snail, Moana 2, Nickel Boys, Nightbitch, Queer, The Room Next Door, Saturday Night, September 5, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Sing Sing, Twisters, Vermiglio, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Nominations

Best Picture, Drama

The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

Best Picture, Comedy/Musical

Anora
Challengers
Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked

Best Picture, Animated

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best Director

Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker – Anora
Edward Berger – Conclave
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light

Best Actor, Drama

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

Best Actor, Comedy/Musical

Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle – Saturday Night
Jesse Plemmons – Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell – Hit Man
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man

Best Actress, Drama

Pamela Anderson – The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Tilda Swinton – The Room Next Door
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
Kate Winslet – Lee

Best Actress, Comedy/Musical

Amy Adams – Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Zendaya – Challengers

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
The Substance

Best Song

Beautiful That Way – The Last Showgirl
Compress/Regress – Challengers
Forbidden Road – Better Man
Kiss the Sky – The Wild Robot
El Mal – Emilia Pérez
Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez