WASHINGTON, January 7The Golden Globes for Achievement in Film and TV Series will be presented in Los Angeles on the evening of January 7, the first ceremony to open the US film awards season since the reorganization of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which founded the award.
Nominees include “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer,” “The Lost and Lost,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Anatomy of a Fall.”
Old brand new life
The 81st awards ceremony will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and will be the first since the liquidation of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) that founded the award last summer. The HFPA has been at the center of high-profile scandals over recent years involving corruption, racism, sexism and other high-profile issues. The solution was found in a plan approved by the Attorney General of the State of California, according to which the Association, which was a non-profit structure, was abolished, and the award itself was registered as a commercial enterprise – with all the necessary reporting and associated contractual obligations of employees – by them, the media say, with a salary of 75 thousand dollars a year, became members of the Association created in 1943.
In the new format, the company was temporarily headed by the flamboyant American investor Todd Boeley, co-owner of the British football club Chelsea, and owner of Eldridge Industries, which combines an extensive portfolio of businesses in the fields of media, film production and real estate. These include a share in the ownership of the hotel where the ceremony will take place, as well as a number of major Hollywood print and online publications. As New York's Vulture reported in December, also partly through one of Boeli's subsidiaries, questions or suspicions of corruption may not be a thing of the past for the new Golden Globes.
Meanwhile, observers unanimously admit that whatever the reform may lead to, the threefold increase in the number of voting members over the past few years, and their number is 300 people from 75 countries, gives hope for a more representative assessment of the industry's achievements.
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As expected, the films “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” topped the list of nominees for the “Golden Globe” 2024. Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer” is nominated in eight categories and will compete for the title of best dramatic film of the year with the films “Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer, “Past Lives” ” by Korean-American director Celine Sohn, “Anatomy of a Fall” by French director Justine Trieu, “Maestro” by Bradley Cooper and “Killers of the Flower Moon” by Martin Scorsese.
Greta Gerwig's Barbie, which received nine nominations, will compete for the Golden Globe in the Comedy/Musical category, which also includes Ben Affleck's Air: The Big Leap, Cord Jefferson's American Fiction, and Alexander's The Leftovers Payne, May, December by Todd Haynes and the multi-festival and Best Film winner at the Venice Film Festival The Lost and Unfortunate by Yorgos Lanthimos.
In the category “Best Foreign Language Film” for the Golden Globe are the already mentioned “Anatomy of a Fall” (France), “Past Lives”, “Zone of Interest” (co-production of the USA, Great Britain, Poland, directed by Jonathan Glazer ), as well as “Fallen Leaves” (Finland, Germany), “I Am Captain” by Italian director Matteo Garrone, “Brotherhood of the Snow” (Spain).
Cartoons by Japanese directors “The Boy and the Bird” (Hayao Miyazaki) and “Suzume Closing the Doors” (Makoto Shinkai), as well as Disney’s “Elementary” and “The Cherished Wish”, “Spider-Man: Web” will compete for the title of best animated film. Universes” and “Super Mario Bros. in the Movies”.
The new category “Cinematographic and Box Office Achievement” includes “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer”, blockbusters “Guardians of the Galaxy Part 3”, “John Wick 4”, “Mission: Impossible: Deadly Reckoning – Part One”, cartoons ” Spider-Man: Web of Universes,” “Super Mario Bros. at the Movies,” and a cinematic visualization of singer Taylor Swift’s concert tour “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.”
Unlike many well-known film awards, the Golden Globe also recognizes merit in the genre of the series. The leader in the number of nominations this year, as expected, was the fourth and final season of the saga about the children of media mogul Logan Roy “Descendants,” receiving nine mentions. In the Drama Series category, it will compete with “1923,” “The Crown,” “The Diplomat,” “The Last of Us,” and “The Morning Show.” In the Comedy Series category are “Abbott Elementary School,” “Barry,” “Bear,” “Be a Jury,” “The Murders in the Same Building” and “Ted Lasso.” In the mini-series category, “All the Light We Cannot See,” “Rumble,” “Daisy Jones and the Six,” “Fargo,” “Hellow Travelers” and “Chemistry Lessons” will compete for the Golden Globe.
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Faces in and behind the frame< /h2>There are traditionally many recognizable faces in the acting nominations this year – Emma Stone for “The Lost and Lost,” Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Bradley Cooper for “Maestro,” Nicolas Cage (“Hero of Our Dreams”) , Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore for “May December”, Timothée Chalamet (“Wonka”), Joaquin Phoenix, who received a nomination for “The Fears of Bo” rather than “Napoleon”. Andrew Scott (“We're Strangers”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”), Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”) and Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”) are also up for the award for best actor in a dramatic role. Matt Damon (“Air: The Big Leap”), Paul Giamatti (“The Leftovers”) and Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) will also compete for the win in the category “Lead Actor in a Comedy or Musical.”
Annette Bening (“Diana Naked”), Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Greta Lee (“Past Lives”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) will compete for the title of best dramatic actress. ), Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”). Other nominees for Best Actress in a Comedy are Margot Robbie (“Barbie”), Jennifer Lawrence (“No Offences”), Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”) and Alma Pövsti (“Fallen Leaves”).
This year's Best Director category includes Celine Sohn (Past Lives), Greta Gerwig (Barbie), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer), Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Lost and Lost”) and Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”).
The host of the renewed Golden Globe ceremony will be American stand-up comedian Joe Koy. It is noteworthy that another new nomination this year concerns his profession – “Best Stand-Up Performance on Television.” For the first time since 1982, the ceremony, which is expected to last about three hours, will be broadcast on CBS.
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