Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Golden Globe Nominations Announced
Maybe it’s because TIFF is still echoing in my head, but waking up to this morning’s Golden Globe nominations brought a small jolt of delight. So many titles that lit up Toronto screens have returned, like familiar faces waving from across a crowded room, and so many carry theatre in their bloodstream. Not just cinema in conversation with the stage, but cinema borrowing the stage’s heartbeat: its breath, its architecture, its sense of presence.
Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall announced the nominees early Monday, marking the unofficial kickoff to that annual, slightly chaotic marathon where film (and now podcasts!!) attempt to remind us why they matter. Neon led the film side, Netflix dominated television, and tucked between the prestige entries and the buzzy comedies is a clear, surprising theme: how deeply theatre threaded itself through the year’s best screen work.
Maybe that’s why this year’s list feels personal. So many TIFF films I carried with me have resurfaced here, still vibrating with those first encounters. “Hamnet,” my favourite film of the year, and one I wrote about extensively with complete awe, continues its quiet, electric sweep: Best Motion Picture: Drama, Director, Screenplay, Actress, Supporting Actor. I felt the excited reverberations in Toronto when the film won the coveted People’s Choice Award at TIFF, and now, seeing Jessie Buckley’s name among the nominees only intensifies that feeling. And I couldn’t be more pleased.
“Wicked: For Good” continues its emerald-green (somewhat) victory lap. The legend-in-the-making Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande both picked up nominations. Erivo is making history again as the first Black actor to be nominated twice in Leading Actress, Musical or Comedy, and Grande is returning as Supporting Actress for Glinda. It’s oddly thrilling to see two performers essentially nominated for the same roles two years in a row. Yes, the film was left out of Best Picture: Musical or Comedy, but its presence in the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category (plus its double Schwartz song nods) suggests that this franchise occupies its own ecosystem: equal parts Broadway mythology, screen spectacle, and cultural moment. And I’m already planning my holiday escape to see it on the largest screen available (maybe while I’m in London, UK); some films demand that communal hush before the overture.
But the morning wasn’t only about Shakespeare and Oz. “Blue Moon” and Ethan Hawke’s turn as haunted, extraordinary Lorenz Hart, one of my TIFF obsessions, earned a nomination that feels like a quiet confirmation of every scribbled festival note I made. And “KPOP Demon Hunters“, nominated for Best Animated Film and for the song “Golden”, is a welcome reminder that theatre doesn’t just give us musicals. And I must admit I loved the film (even though I never wrote about it).
Television tells a similar story. Stage-trained performers continue to dominate comedy: Steve Martin and Martin Short for “Only Murders in the Building“, Sarah Snook, Michelle Williams, and Carrie Coon across a trio of projects. It’s a strong year for actors who understand how to fill a room, whether the room is a theatre or a camera lens.
The Awards season can feel like rituals or arguments, or endurance tests. But this morning, sipping coffee and scrolling through the nominees, it felt more like a reunion: of artists, of performances, of that unexpected thread stitching stage and screen into something richer than either could be alone.
A full list of this year’s Golden Globe nominees follows.
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Hamnet (Focus Features)
It Was Just an Accident (Neon)
The Secret Agent (Neon)
Sentimental Value (Neon)
Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Bugonia (Focus Features)
Marty Supreme (A24)
No Other Choice (Neon)
Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Best Motion Picture – Animated
Arco (Neon)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle(Aniplex, Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Elio (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Kpop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Gkids)
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
F1 (Apple Original Films)
Kpop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)
Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema)
Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
It Was Just an Accident (Neon) – France
No Other Choice (Neon) – South Korea
The Secret Agent (Neon) – Brazil
Sentimental Value (Neon) – Norway
Sirāt (Neon) – Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Willa) – Tunisia
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)
Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)
Tessa Thompson (Hedda)
Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein)
Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)
Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good)
Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)
Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)
Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)
Emma Stone (Bugonia)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
George Clooney (Jay Kelly)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Lee Byung-Hun (No Other Choice)
Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine)
Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)
Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)
Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)
Paul Mescal (Hamnet)
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Best Director – Motion Picture
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Guillermo Del Toro (Frankenstein)
Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)
Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie (MartySupreme)
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein)
Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)
Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another)
Kangding Ray (Sirāt)
Max Richter (Hamnet)
Hans Zimmer (F1)
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Dream as One” –– Avatar: Fire and Ash
Music By: Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen
Lyrics By: Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen
“Golden” –– Kpop Demon Hunters
Music By: Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun
Lyrics By: Kim Eun-Jae (Ejae), Mark Sonnenblick
“I Lied To You” –– Sinners
Music By: Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson
Lyrics By: Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson
“No Place Like Home” –– Wicked: For Good
Music By: Stephen Schwartz
Lyrics By: Stephen Schwartz
“The Girl in the Bubble” –– Wicked: For Good
Music By: Stephen Schwartz
Lyrics By: Stephen Schwartz
“Train Dreams” –– Train Dreams
Music By: Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner
Lyrics By: Nick Cave
Best Television Series – Drama
The Diplomat (Netflix)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
Severance (Apple TV)
Slow Horses (Apple TV)
The White Lotus (HBO Max)
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX on Hulu)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
The Studio (Apple TV)
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Adolescence (Netflix)
All Her Fault (Peacock)
The Beast In Me (Netflix)
Black Mirror (Netflix)
Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu)
The Girlfriend (Prime Video)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Kathy Bates (Matlock)
Britt Lower (Severance)
Helen Mirren (Mobland)
Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)
Keri Russell (The Diplomat)
Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Sterling K. Brown (Paradise)
Diego Luna (Andor)
Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
Mark Ruffalo (Task)
Adam Scott (Severance)
Noah Wyle (The Pitt)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This)
Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)
Selena Gomez (Only Murders In the Building)
Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)
Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
Jean Smart (Hacks)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This)
Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
Glen Powell (Chad Powers)
Seth Rogen (The Studio)
Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Claire Danes (The Beast in Me)
Rashida Jones (Black Mirror)
Amanda Seyfried (Long Bright River)
Sarah Snook (All Her Fault)
Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex)
Robin Wright (The Girlfriend)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Jacob Elordi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
Paul Giamatti (Black Mirror)
Stephen Graham (Adolescence)
Charlie Hunnam (Monster: The Ed Gein Story)
Jude Law (Black Rabbit)
Matthew Rhys (The Beast in Me)
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television
Carrie Coon (The White Lotus)
Erin Doherty (Adolescence)
Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)
Catherine O’hara (The Studio)
Parker Posey (The White Lotus)
Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus)
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television
Owen Cooper (Adolescence)
Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)
Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)
Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus)
Tramell Tillman (Severance)
Ashley Walters (Adolescence)
Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Bill Maher (Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?)
Brett Goldstein (Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life)
Kevin Hart (Kevin Hart: Acting My Age)
Kumail Nanjiani (Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts)
Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais: Mortality)
Sarah Silverman (Sarah Silverman: Postmortem)
Best Podcast
Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard(Wondery)
Call Her Daddy (SiriusXM)
Good Hang With Amy Poehler (Spotify)
The Mel Robbins Podcast (SiriusXM)
Smartless (SiriusXM)
Up First (NPR)
