Last chance for Golden Globes to shine again
After two years of reputation-battering headlines, and the cancellation of last year’s telecast, The Golden Globe Awards returns to television.
Pressure plagues this years Golden Globe Awards. After two years of reputation-battering headlines, culminating in NBC cancelling last year’s telecast, the chastened ceremony has one shot to get it right.
NBC, who has broadcast the Globes since 1995, agreed to return the ceremony to air for an 80th instalment under a one-year trial.
Australia has a few dogs in this year’s fight, with Cate Blanchett (Tar), Hugh Jackman (The Son), Margot Robbie (Babylon) and Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown) all up for acting awards.
Baz Luhrmann’s glitzed out Elvis will face off against Top Gun Maverick, The Fabelmans, Tar and Avatar: The Way of Water for best drama.
Martin McDonagh’s black comedy about the friendship fallout of two longtime drinking buddies, The Banshees of Inisherin, leads the nominees — nabbing eight nominations for best picture, director, screenplay, score, leading actor in a comedy or musical (Colin Farrell), supporting actress (Kerry Condon) and twice for supporting actor (Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan). With A24’s dizzying Everything Everywhere All at Once coming in at second with six nominations.
Cate Blanchett is the frontrunner for best drama actress for her role as Lydia Tar in Todd Field’s icy conductor drama. And Hugh Jackman will face off against critic’s favourite Brendan Fraser (The Whale) for best drama actor for his role in Florian Zeller’s The Son.
Brendan Fraser will not attend the ceremony after alleging that he was groped by Philip Berk, former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — the organisation that bestows the Globes — in 2003.
“I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” Fraser said in a GQ profile. Berk was expelled from the HFPA in 2021, after sharing an article that described Black Lives Matter as a “racist hate group”.
There’s been a major overhaul at the HFPA following a February 2021 Los Angeles Times Investigation, published in the days running up to the 78th ceremony, that enumerated the financial and ethical lapses at the organisation and revealed it had no Black members.
In the aftermath more than 100 Hollywood publicity firms signed an open letter calling for “profound and lasting change” at the organisation; Netflix, Amazon and WarnerMedia declared it would not work with the organisation unless additional changes were made. Scarlett Johansson urged fellow celebrities to “step back from the HFPA” writing in a statement that the organisations new conference “bordered on sexual harassment”; and Tom Cruise returned his three Golden Globe trophies in symbolic protest. Cruise was notably left out of this year’s best actor nominees for his performance in Top Gun: Maverick (the movie received a nomination for Best Drama).
In the two years since, new interim chief executive, Todd Boehly, has lead sweeping reforms in an effort to rectify the organisations including recruiting new members ‘with a specific focus on Black members’; enacting a stricter code of conduct; and announcing it will become a private, for-profit company.
Where and when to watch the Golden Globes
The Golden Globes will stream from 11am AEDT on Stan.
The Golden Globe Nominees
Best picture — Drama
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Elvis
- The Fabelmans
- Tar
- Top Gun: Maverick
Best picture — Musical/Comedy
- Babylon
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Prime Video)
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
- Triangle of Sadness
Best actress in a motion picture — Drama
- *Cate Blanchett — Tar
- Olivia Colman — Empire of Light
- Viola Davis — The Woman King (Prime Vide)
- Ana de Armas — Blonde (Netflix)
- Michelle Williams — The Fabelmans
Best actor in a motion picture — Drama
- Austin Butler — Elvis
- Brendan Fraser — The Whale
- *Hugh Jackman — The Son
- Bill Nighy — Living
- Jeremy Pope — The Inspection
Best actress in a motion picture — Musical/Comedy
- Lesley Manville — Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
- *Margot Robbie — Babylon
- Anya Taylor-Joy — The Menu
- Emma Thompson — Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Michelle Yeoh — Everything Everywhere All at Once (Prime Video)
Best actor in a motion picture — musical/Comedy
- Diego Calva — Babylon
- Daniel Craig — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
- Adam Driver — White Noise (Netflix)
- Colin Farrell — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Ralph Fiennes — The Menu
Best supporting actress — motion picture
- Angela Bassett — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Kerry Condon — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Jamie Lee Curtis — Everything Everywhere All at Once (Prime Video)
- Dolly De Leon — Triangle of Sadness
- Carey Mulligan — She Said
Best supporting actor — motion picture
- Brendan Gleeson — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Barry Keoghan — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Brad Pitt — Babylon
- Ke Huy Quan — Everything Everywhere All at Once (Prime Video)
- Eddie Redmayne — The Good Nurse (Netflix)
Best director — motion picture
- James Cameron — Avatar: The Way of Water
- Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan — Everything Everywhere All at Once (Prime Video)
- Baz Luhrmann — Elvis
- Martin McDonagh — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Steven Spielberg — The Fabelmans
Best screenplay — motion picture
- Todd Field — Tar
- Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan — Everything Everywhere All at Once (Prime Video)
- Martin McDonagh — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Sarah Polley — Women Talking
- Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg — The Fabelmans
Best picture — animated
- Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio (Netflix)
- Inu-Oh
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Turning Red
Best picture — non-English language
- All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany
- Argentina, 1985 — Argentina
- Close — Netherlands, France and Belgium
- Decision to Leave — South Korea
- RRR — India
Best original song — motion picture
- ‘Carolina’, from Where the Crawdads Sing — Taylor Swift
- ‘Ciao Papa’, from Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio — Alexandre Desplat
- ‘Hold My Hand’, from Top Gun: Maverick — Lady Gaga
- ‘Lift Me Up’, from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler
- ‘Naatu Naatu’, from RRR — M.M. Keeravani
Best score — motion picture
- Carter Burwell — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Alexandre Desplat — Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio
- Hildur Gudnadottir — Women Talking
- Justin Hurwitz — Babylon
- John Williams — The Fabelmans
Television categories
Best drama series
- Better Call Saul (Stan)
- The Crown (Netflix)
- House of the Dragon (Binge)
- Ozark (Netflix)
- Severance (Apple TV)
Best musical/comedy series
- Abbott Elementary (Disney+)
- The Bear (Disney+)
- Hacks (Stan)
- Only Murders in the Building (Disney+)
- Wednesday (Netflix)
Best limited series, anthology series or television motion picture
- Black Bird (Apple TV)
- Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
- The Dropout (Disney+)
- Pam & Tommy (Disney+)
- The White Lotus (Binge)
Best actress — drama series
- Emma D’Arcy — House of the Dragon (Binge)
- Laura Linney — Ozark (Netflix)
- Imelda Staunton — The Crown (Netflix)
- Hilary Swank — Alaska Daily (Disney+)
- Zendaya — Euphoria (Binge)
Best actor — drama series
- Jeff Bridges — The Old Man (Disney+)
- Kevin Costner — Yellowstone (Stan)
- Diego Luna — Andor (Disney+)
- Bob Odenkirk — Better Call Saul (Stan)
- Adam Scott — Severance (Apple TV)
Best actor — musical/comedy series
- Donald Glover — Atlanta (Binge)
- Bill Hader — Barry (Binge)
- Steve Martin — Only Murders in the Building (Disney+)
- Martin Short — Only Murders in the Building (Disney+)
- Jeremy Allen White — The Bear (Disney+)
Best actress — musical/comedy series
- Quinta Brunson — Abbott Elementary (Disney+)
- Kaley Cuoco — The Flight Attendant (Binge)
- Selena Gomez — Only Murders in the Building (Disney+)
- Jenna Ortega — Wednesday (Netflix)
- Jean Smart — Hacks (Stan)
Best actress — limited series, anthology series or television motion picture
- Jessica Chastain — George & Tammy (Paramount +)
- Julia Garner — Inventing Anna (Netflix)
- Lily James — Pam & Tommy (Disney+)
- Julia Roberts — Gaslit (Stan)
- Amanda Seyfried — The Dropout (Disney+)
Best actor — limited series, anthology series or television motion picture
- Taron Egerton — Black Bird
- Colin Firth — The Staircase (Binge)
- Andrew Garfield — Under the Banner of Heaven
- Evan Peters — Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- Sebastian Stan — Pam & Tommy (Disney+)
Best supporting actor — television series
- John Lithgow — The Old Man
- Jonathan Pryce — The Crown
- John Turturro — Severance
- Tyler James Williams — Abbott Elementary (Disney+)
- Henry Winkler — Barry (Binge)
Best supporting actress — television series
- Elizabeth Debicki — The Crown (Netflix)
- Hannah Einbinder — Hacks (Stan)
- Julia Garner — Ozark (Netflix)
- Janelle James — Abbott Elementary (Disney+)
- Sheryl Lee Ralph — Abbott Elementary (Disney+)
Best supporting actress — television limited series/motion picture
- Jennifer Coolidge — The White Lotus (Binge)
- Claire Danes — Fleishman Is in Trouble (Disney+)
- Daisy Edgar-Jones — Under the Banner of Heaven (Disney+)
- Niecy Nash — Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
- Aubrey Plaza — The White Lotus (Binge)
Best supporting actor — television limited series/motion picture
- Murray Abraham — The White Lotus (Binge)
- Domhnall Gleeson — The Patient (Disney+)
- Paul Walter Hauser — Black Bird (Apple TV)
- Richard Jenkins — Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
- Seth Rogen — Pam & Tommy (Disney+)