Margot Robbie, Sarah Snook and Elizabeth Debicki lead Australia’s chances at the Golden Globes
Margie Robbie could officially be crowned Hollywood’s golden girl, while two other Aussies are also in the running for a gong at the Golden Globes, as awards season kicks off in Tinseltown.
She headlined the highest grossing movie of 2023 and took home a reported $US50m pay cheque for her efforts, but Margot Robbie could be officially crowned Hollywood’s golden girl on Monday.
The 33-year-old is up for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical at the Golden Globes in Hollywood for her performance in Barbie, the biggest movie of the year.
With nine nominations – including for Robbie’s scene partner Ryan Gosling in Best Supporting Actor, filmmaker Greta Gerwig in Best Director and three original songs – Barbie is the most decorated film at the Golden Globes, taking place in Los Angeles.
The Golden Globes have had a checkered history: cancelled in 2022 after a Los Angeles Times report revealing the awards ceremony was voted on by a group containing not a single black member, the organisation was sold to new owners in 2023 and returns triumphantly this year as the first awards show of the season, throwing Hollywood’s first party of the year in partnership with Moet & Chandon.
And with the Golden Globes’ return, a new award. Enter the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award, in which Barbie competes against the Christopher Nolan historical epic Oppenheimer, the animated hit Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. Also nominated is Taylor Swift, for her concert film The Eras Tour, which grossed $US250m worldwide to become the most profitable concert film of all time. Rumours on the ground in Hollywood are whispering that Swift will be making an appearance at the ceremony, though given Barbie is the highest grossing movie of the year, surely this award is Margot’s to lose?
The Golden Globes also celebrates the stars of television, which is where you’ll find the other Australian acting nominees this year.
Sarah Snook is the frontrunner to win Best Actress in a Drama for the series finale of Succession, in which she starred as Shiv Roy, the ruthless daughter of a media magnate vying for top position in his empire. In previous years, Snook has competed – and won – in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance, but this year, after Succession’s indelible final season, Snook was elevated to the top category.
Her move leaves an opening in Best Supporting Actress for Elizabeth Debicki, nominated for embodying Princess Diana’s final moments in the last season of The Crown, to win. It is conceivable all three of Australia’s golden girls could take home awards today.
Other names to look out for include Australian screenwriter Tony McNamara, nominated for writing Poor Things, his second collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos and third with star Emma Stone, who is Robbie’s biggest competition in the Best Actress category.
The Best Actor race is shaping up to be a major showdown, in which Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro is up against Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Fleabag’s Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers and Cillian Murphy as the titular Oppenheimer.
It’s one of the tightest races of the season and pundits are struggling to predict a winner. With new owners and an increased voting body, anything could happen at the Golden Globes this year.
More Coverage
It was brutal, but Guy Pearce got lucky
The actor, nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for his scene-stealing turn in The Brutalist, talks money, Neighbours and why he was terrible in Memento.
‘Can we show someone being shot on live television?’
Journalists who witnessed the terrorist attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics tell the story in the tense thriller September 5.