After conquering the summer season field workplace, “Barbenheimer” is staging an Oscar-season sequel – starting on the Golden Globes.
On Monday, blockbuster hit “Barbie” earned 9 nominations, together with greatest comedy or musical and greatest actress for star Margot Robbie, whereas atomic bomb biopic “Oppenheimer” scored greatest drama as a part of its eight nods on the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards airing Jan. 7 (8 p.m. ET/5 PT). This yr’s occasion additionally marks a brand new period for the Hollywood International Press Affiliation’s annual shindig: The embattled group weathered a diversity controversy and now has a brand new dwelling on CBS and Paramount+.
Fresh off a National Board of Review win for greatest movie, Martin Scorsese’s crime epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” is contending for high drama, a discipline which additionally consists of “Oppenheimer,” Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” love story “Previous Lives,” French courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” and unsettling Holocaust movie “The Zone of Curiosity.”
Greta Gerwig’s runaway phenomenon “Barbie” heads the pack tussling for greatest comedy or musical. Additionally within the combine is the fantastical story “Poor Issues,” Seventies vacation throwback “The Holdovers,” Ben Affleck’s Nineteen Eighties sneaker film “Air,” and cultural satires “American Fiction and “Might December.”
The class for greatest actress in a comedy/musical is stacked, that includes Robbie, Emma Stone (“Poor Issues”), Natalie Portman (“Might December”), Fantasia Barrino (“The Coloration Purple”), Jennifer Lawrence (“No Exhausting Emotions”) and Alma Pöysti (“Fallen Leaves”). Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) is up for greatest actor in a comedy/musical alongside Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”), Timothée Chalamet (“Wonka”), Nicolas Cage (“Dream Situation”), Joaquin Phoenix (“Beau Is Afraid”) and Matt Damon (“Air”).
Cillian Murphy’s acclaimed flip within the title function of “Oppenheimer” garnered him a Globes nomination for greatest actor in a drama, and he is competing towards Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”), Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers”) and Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”). DiCaprio’s “Flower Moon” co-star Lily Gladstone is up for greatest actress in a drama vs. Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Annette Bening (“Nyad”), Greta Lee (“Previous Lives”) and Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”).
Previous supporting actor nominees – and Marvel superhero friends – Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Issues”) are again within the class alongside Ryan Gosling (“Barbie”), Robert De Niro (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Charles Melton (“Might December”) and Ruffalo’s “Poor Issues” co-star Willem Dafoe. The contingent of supporting actress contenders consists of Danielle Brooks (“The Coloration Purple”), Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph (“The Holdovers”), Julianne Moore (“Might December”), Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), Jodie Foster (“Nyad”) and Rosamund Pike (“Saltburn”).
The Golden Globes are rising from a interval of tumult: In 2021, the Los Angeles Times reported that not one of the HFPA’s 87 voting journalists had been Black, spurring studios and publicists to threaten a boycott. NBC dropped the Globes amid the controversy however aired the 2023 version of the awards present after the HFPA took steps to handle representation in the group. In 2022, a pandemic-era occasion was held with out nominees or an viewers in attendance.
This text initially appeared on USA TODAY: Golden Globes 2024: ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ lead nominations
