Barbie tops Golden Globe Awards with 9 nominations, Oppenheimer follows with 8

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie dominated the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and nominations for three of its original songs. It was closely followed by its release date and meme companion Oppenheimer which scored eight nominations, including best picture drama and for actors Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt. The revamped group, now a for-profit endeavour with a larger and more diverse voting body, announced nominations on Monday for its January awards show, after scandal and several troubled years. Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place on January 7. Selected categories Best drama movie Anatomy of a Fall Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives The Zone of Interest Best comedy or musical movie Air American Fiction Barbie The Holdovers May December Poor Things Female actor in a dramatic film Annette Bening, Nyad Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla Carey Mulligan, Maestro Greta Lee, Past Lives Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Barbie opens in Japan after atomic bomb controversy Male actor in a dramatic film Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers Barry Keoghan, Saltburn Bradley Cooper, Maestro Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Colman Domingo, Rustin Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon Female actor in a musical or comedy film Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves Emma Stone, Poor Things Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings Margot Robbie, Barbie Natalie Portman, May December 10 of the best films at Venice Film Festival 2023, with Emma Stone and more Male actor in a musical or comedy film Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction Jaoquin Phoenix, Beau is Afraid Matt Damon, Air Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Timothée Chalamet, Wonka Female actor in a television drama Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us Emma Stone, The Curse Helen Mirren, 1923 Imelda Staunton, The Crown Keri Russell, The Diplomat Sarah Snook, Succession ‘A profound sense of tragedy’: Princess Diana actress on The Crown season 6 Male actor in a television drama Brian Cox, Succession Kieran Culkin, Succession Gary Oldman, Slow Horses Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us Jeremy Strong, Succession Dominic West, The Crown Female actor in a television comedy Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary Ayo Edebiri, The Bear Elle Fanning, The Great Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face Male actor in a television comedy Bill Hader, Barry Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building Jason Segel, Shrinking Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso Jeremy Allen White, The Bear In addition to nominations for films, shows and actors, segmented between comedy/musical and drama, the 2024 show will have two new categories: cinematic and box office achievement and best stand-up comedian on television. Analysts expect films like Barbie, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Poor Things and The Color Purple will be among the top nominees. The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of awards season, with a new home on CBS. And while to audiences it might look similar on the surface, it’s been tumultuous few years behind the scenes following a bombshell report in the Los Angeles Times. The 2021 report found that there were no black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on the awards. Stars and studios boycotted the Globes and NBC refused to air it in 2022 as a result. After the group added journalists of colour to its ranks and instituted other reforms to address ethical concerns, the show came back in January 2023 in a one-year probationary agreement with NBC. The network did not opt to renew. In June, billionaire Todd Boehly was granted approval to dissolve the HFPA and reinvent the Golden Globes as a for-profit organisation. Its assets were acquired by Boehly’s Eldridge Industries, along with Dick Clark Productions, a group that is owned by Penske Media whose assets also include Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone and Billboard. In mid-November, CBS announced that it would air the ceremony on the network on January 7. It will also stream on Paramount+. The Golden Globe Awards had long been one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars. ‘Barbenheimer’ is big on social media – and Japan isn’t happy about it The show was touted as a boozy, A-list party, whose hosts often took a more irreverent tone than their academy counterparts. It also only honoured the flashiest filmmaking categories – picture, director, actors among them – meaning no long speeches from visual effects supervisors or directors of shorts no one has heard of. But the voting body was a small group of around 87 members who wielded incredible influence in the industry and often accepted lavish gifts and travel from studios and awards publicists eager to court favour and win votes. Some years, the HFPA were pilloried for nominating poorly reviewed films with big name talent with hopes of getting them to the show, the most infamous being The Tourist, with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. In the past decade, they’ve more often overlapped with the Oscars. The show also recognises television. Before the expose and public relations crisis though, no one in the industry took much umbrage with who was voting on the awards. The show had become an important part of the Hollywood awards ecosystem, a platform for Oscar hopefuls and was, until recently, a reliable ratings draw. As of 2019, it was still pulling in nearly 19 million viewers to the broadcast. This year, NBC’s Tuesday night broadcast got its smallest audience ever for a traditional broadcast, with 6.3 million viewers. The group nominating and voting for the awards is now made up of a more diverse group of over 300 people from around the world. Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse

Barbie tops Golden Globe Awards with 9 nominations, Oppenheimer follows with 8

Barbie dominated the Golden Globe Award nominations with nine nods, including best picture, while meme companion Oppenheimer scored eight nominations The Golden Globe Awards had long been one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars

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Barbie dominated the Golden Globe Award nominations with nine nods, including best picture, while meme companion Oppenheimer scored eight nominations

The Golden Globe Awards had long been one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars