We bitched and moaned about WTF snubs and inclusions earlier so now it's time to turn those frowns upside down. We polled Team Experience about their favorite Globe nominations in movies and tv and we hope you'll answer the same questions in the comments! Ready? Here we go...
FAVORITE NOMINATION, NON-ACTING?
Manuel: Neruda for Best Foreign Language film, because at least it means Larraín can schmooze his way to the Globes even after they mistreated his other anti-biopic.
Bill: Kenneth Lonergan for Best Director. It seemed a foregone conclusion even back in January that, at the very least, Lonergan would be cited for awards this year for his screenplay. It's gratifying that his work as a director—the tightness and build of his scenes, his unfussy blocking of the ensemble, his directness—seems also to be getting noticed. The film is not merely an achievement of words and structure.
Murtada: Moonlight for Picture. It's great that this film is a frontrunner.
Margaret: 20th Century Women for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy. La Bening is rightly getting showered in accolades for her beautifully funny and surprising and lovable performance, but the movie that houses it is a gem in its own right and exactly what things like the Globes' Comedy categories exist to elevate. Any person who is persuaded by this nomination to go see the film has been given a gift.
Chris Feil: Sing Street for Best Comedy/Musical. There is basically no campaign for this little gem (note the lack of a Best Original Song nomination) so this felt unlikely. This nomination will look pretty cool when everyone catches on to this movie any day now.
FAVORITE ACTING NOMINATION?
Tim: Colin Farrell, The Lobster. I took it for granted that this movie would glide throughout all of awards season without a solitary mention, and I'm glad to have been disproven so early.
Nick Davis: Colin Farrell for The Lobster, which apparently is not quite as good a movie as Deadpool. I guess I'll have to find out.
Murtada: Ruth Negga best actress drama. With Arrival's box office, Huppert dominance in critics awards and how good Hidden Figures makes us feel I thought she'd be toast. Happy to see her understated yet powerful performance continue to shine.
Manuel: Annette Bening. I keep fearing Mike Mills' wistful film will be lost in the shuffle, costing La Bening the recognition she deserves, but thankfully they came through.
Chris Feil: Hailee Steinfeld for The Edge of Seventeen. I'd mentioned in my review that a nomination for her might not be the likeliest, but I guess the world has some fairness to share after all.
Lynn: Toss-up between Viggo (yaaas!) and Hailee Steinfeld. I just saw The Edge of Seventeen the other day and she is so good in it. She shifts so naturally and seamlessly between all the different registers of being an outwardly tough, inwardly vulnerable teenage girl - from precociously angry at the world to heartbreakingly giddy at the prospect of going out with her crush to just plain heartbreaking during her final moment of emotional reckoning. That climactic scene with her brother is a little too pat from a narrative standpoint, but she nails it.
Bill: Isabelle Huppert for Elle. Proof that it may just be impossible to ignore the career achievement accolades for Huppert this year. Normally, those narrative don't make sense to me, but for Huppert, considering how she brings the same uncompromising intensity to Paul Verhoeven's Elle as she has done countless times before, it is well earned and deserved.
Eric: Wonderful to see Viggo Mortensen nail what should be a no-brainer nomination, and the continued momentum for Huppert.
Abstew: It seems a little silly to say, because it seemed so assured. But the lack of love in any other category (that score! that screenplay! the effortless and ingenious direction) makes the sole nomination for JACKIE's Natalie Portman all the more satisfying. Not only is it for her best performance to date, but now her inevitable win (fingers crossed) will not just be for her work, but for the film as a whole.
FAVORITE TV NOMINATION?
Joe Reid: Thandie Newton for "Westworld" is SO well-deserved.
Abstew: The ladies of Westworld. I know EVERYONE has an opinion on this show, but I think we can all agree if it works at all it's thanks to Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton's hosts with the most, breathing life and emotions into their programming.
Chris Feil: Olivia Colman for The Night Manager because I can just pretend that it's actually for Fleabag.
Nick Davis: Girl, you've met me. You know I don't know. I mean, I like seeing Riley Keough at least get nominated for *something* the year she was so great in American Honey.
Jose: SJP for Divorce, the show is shit, but they can't resist nominating Carrie Bradshaw (she even got a Family Stone nod!) and I will always love them for that.
Manuel: Charlotte Rampling, London Spy. If you haven't yet seen adorable moppet and Gay Twitter's boyfriend Ben Whishaw's sexy gay spy show, you really should get on it for on top of seeing Whishaw in full gay male leading man mode, you will get an icy Rampling performance to go along with the show's racy, sexy, convoluted espionage plot.
Murtada: Issa Rae for Insecure. It shouldn't be surprising since it's an HBO show but it's still amazing to see her make it.
Lynn: Issa Rae for Insecure. Everyone should be watching that show. Issa is a marvel - funny, perpetually conflicted, and so relatable even at the same time she says and does things that make you cringe.
YOUR TURN! WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITES MONDAY MORNING?