Aussies dominate 2022 Golden Globe nominations

Cate Blanchett is the frontrunner for Best Actress, while Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is up for Best Drama Film.

Cate Blanchett is the frontrunner for best actress at the 2022 Golden Globes, while Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is up for best drama film.

Australian stars Cate Blanchett, Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman, Elizabeth Debicki, and Baz Luhrmann are amongst the stars vying to win at the Golden Globes next year.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the nominees for the 80th ceremony, held on January 11. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is up for best drama film against Top Gun Maverick, The Fabelmans, Tár and Avatar: The Way of Water.

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 25: Baz Luhrmann and Austin Butler depart the screening of "Elvis" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 25, 2022 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Martin McDonagh’s heavily-accented film about the friendship fallout of two longtime drinking buddies leads the pack, 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.)

Colin Farrell in Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin.

A24 epic Everything Everywhere All at Once, comes in second with six nominations. Whilst Steven Spielberg and Damien Chazelle’s respective love letters to cinema, The Fablemans and Babylon, tied third, earning five nominations each.

Cate Blanchett is the front-runner for best leading actress in a drama for her role as a predatory conductor in Todd Field’s acclaimed Tár.

Cate Blanchett in Todd Field's Tár.

Hugh Jackman will face off against critic’s favourite Brendan Fraser for best actor in a motion picture for his role in Florian Zeller’s The Son.

Fraser will not attend the ceremony, the actor previously alleged that he was groped by Philip Berk, former president of the HFPA, in 2003. Berk was expelled from the organisation in 2021 after sharing an article that described Black Lives Matter as a "racist hate group."

The Golden Globes reputation took a hit last year after a Los Angeles Times investigation found that the group then had no Black members. In the wake of the exposé actors like Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson condemned the HFPA. Cruise handed back his three trophies and Johannson urged a boycott. 

Margot Robbie is up for best supporting actress in Damien Chazelle’s poorly-recieved Bablyon. And Elizabeth Debicki has earned a best supporting actress in a television series nomination for her role of Princess Diana in The Crown.

On the small screen, comedy Abbott Elementary lead nominations with five nods, followed by The White Lotus, DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, The Crown, Pam & Tommy and Only Murders in the Building with four each.

Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki portraying Princess Diana in the latest season of The Crown.

Best picture — Musical/Comedy

• Babylon

• The Banshees of Inisherin

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

• Triangle of Sadness

Best actress in a motion picture — Drama

• *Cate Blanchett — Tár
• Olivia Colman — Empire of Light
• Viola Davis — The Woman King
• Ana de Armas — Blonde
• 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

Best actor in a motion picture — musical/Comedy

• Diego Calva — Babylon
• Daniel Craig — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Adam Driver — White Noise
• 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
• 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
• Eddie Redmayne — The Good Nurse

Best director — motion picture

• James Cameron — Avatar: The Way of Water
• Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan — Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Baz Luhrmann — Elvis
• Martin McDonagh — The Banshees of Inisherin
• Steven Spielberg — The Fabelmans

Best screenplay — motion picture

• Todd Field — Tár
• Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan — Everything Everywhere All at Once
• 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

• 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 Guðnadóttir — Women Talking
• Justin Hurwitz — Babylon
• John Williams — The Fabelmans

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Best drama series

• Better Call Saul

• The Crown

• House of the Dragon

• Ozark

• Severance

Best musical/comedy series

• Abbott Elementary

• The Bear

• Hacks

• Only Murders in the Building

• Wednesday

Best limited series, anthology series or television motion picture

• Black Bird

• Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

• The Dropout

• Pam & Tommy

• The White Lotus

Best actress — drama series

• Emma D’Arcy — House of the Dragon
• Laura Linney — Ozark
• Imelda Staunton — The Crown
• Hilary Swank — Alaska Daily
• Zendaya — Euphoria

Best actor — drama series

• Jeff Bridges — The Old Man
• Kevin Costner — Yellowstone
• Diego Luna — Andor
• Bob Odenkirk — Better Call Saul
• Adam Scott — Severance

Best actor — musical/comedy series

• Donald Glover — Atlanta
• Bill Hader — Barry
• Steve Martin — Only Murders in the Building
• Martin Short — Only Murders in the Building
• Jeremy Allen White — The Bear

Best actress — musical/comedy series

• Quinta Brunson — Abbott Elementary
• Kaley Cuoco — The Flight Attendant
• Selena Gomez — Only Murders in the Building
• Jenna Ortega — Wednesday
• Jean Smart — Hacks

Best actress — limited series, anthology series or television motion picture

• Jessica Chastain — George & Tammy
• Julia Garner — Inventing Anna
• Lily James — Pam & Tommy
• Julia Roberts — Gaslit
• Amanda Seyfried — The Dropout

Best actor — limited series, anthology series or television motion picture

• Taron Egerton — Black Bird
• Colin Firth — The Staircase
• Andrew Garfield — Under the Banner of Heaven
• Evan Peters — Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
• Sebastian Stan — Pam & Tommy

Best supporting actor — television series

• John Lithgow — The Old Man
• Jonathan Pryce — The Crown
• John Turturro — Severance
• Tyler James Williams — Abbott Elementary
• Henry Winkler — Barry

Best supporting actress — television series

• Elizabeth Debicki — The Crown
• Hannah Einbinder — Hacks
• Julia Garner — Ozark
• Janelle James — Abbott Elementary
• Sheryl Lee Ralph — Abbott Elementary

Best supporting actress — television limited series/motion picture

• Jennifer Coolidge — The White Lotus
• Claire Danes — Fleishman Is in Trouble
• Daisy Edgar-Jones — Under the Banner of Heaven
• Niecy Nash — Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
• Aubrey Plaza — The White Lotus

Best supporting actor — television limited series/motion picture

• Murray Abraham — The White Lotus
• Domhnall Gleeson — The Patient
• Paul Walter Hauser — Black Bird
• Richard Jenkins — Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
• Seth Rogen — Pam & Tommy