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Monday 11 December 2017

Awards Season 2018: Golden Globe Nominations


Today sees the announcement of the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The HFPA split their awards, giving certain categories for both Drama and Musical or Comedy, rather than just going for the out-and-out drama as most awards tend to do.

Below is a list of some of the nominees:


Best Picture - Drama
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape Of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya
Lady Bird

Best Director
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape Of Water)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Ridley Scott (All The Money In The World)
Steven Spielberg (The Post)

Best Actor - Drama
Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Tom Hanks (The Post)
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.)

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
Steve Carell (Battle Of The Sexes)
Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver)
James Franco (The Disaster Artist)
Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)

Best Actress - Drama
Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game)
Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Meryl Streep (The Post)
Michelle Williams (All The Money In The World)

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy
Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul)
Helen Mirren (The Leisure Seeker)
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
Emma Stone (Battle Of The Sexes)

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name)
Richard Jenkins (The Shape Of Water)
Christopher Plummer (All The Money In The World)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
Hong Chau (Downsizing)
Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Octavia Spencer (The Shape Of Water)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

Generally speaking, a lot of the names are familiar and were expected- Ronan, Robbie, Franco, Streep, McDormand- and momentum is definitely building to the Academy Award nominations in just over a month's time.

I do have to ask, though: is Get Out really a comedy? Are the producers stretching the definition to ensure the film gets nominated? It's on my watch-list (as I sadly missed it in the cinema) so I haven't seen it but the whole thing doesn't necessarily scream 'laugh riot'. I may be wrong. 

However, there are a couple of surprises, most notably the three nominations for All The Money In The World. This film has, to put it mildly, had a few production issues- with around six weeks to go before release, portions of the film were re-shot when Ridley Scott made the decision to recast the role of miserly millionaire J. Paul Getty in light of the allegations against Kevin Spacey. Christopher Plummer took the role, the reshoots were completed, and now Plummer has a Golden Globe nomination for it as well. 

The Shape Of Water leads the field with seven nominations, with The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri both on six each. 

The Golden Globes will be handed out on 7th January 2018, in a ceremony hosted by Seth Meyers. Congratulations to all nominees!

The next Awards Season post will be on Wednesday (13th December) as the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations are announced.

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