Golden Globe Nominees: "Belfast" and "Power of the Dog" lead
Monday, December 13, 2021 at 10:58AM
NATHANIEL R in Belfast, Golden Globes, Power of the Dog, precursor awards

by Nathaniel R

Kenneth Branagh's childhood memoir Belfast and Jane Campion's stirring psychosexual western Power of the Dog lead the 79th annual Golden Globe nominations with seven each. Among comedies or musicals, which are always the highlight of the Globes since that's the only award bodies to take those genres of film seriously, early releases like Cruella and In the Heights had to settle for just one nomination each (in acting) ... but December arrivals Cyrano, Don't Look Up, Licorice Pizza, tick tick..BOOM!, and West Side Story all snagged multiple nominations including Best Picture. 

This year, the HFPA threw no surprises at all into their top-of-the-line nominations (which is not like them) unless you count Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos and Mahershala Ali in Swan Song as Drama Actor nominees but the Globes have always been kind to December films led by high profile stars, whether or not they have opened or proved anything like conversational staying power. But perhaps this 'no surprise... only assumed future Oscar nominees' field is because the Globes have had other things on their mind than screenings and their ballots...

They've been working on reforms and overhauls after being shunned by Hollywood (naturally after Hollywood came out to collect their prizes from the same group). NBC may have dealt the group a death blow by refusing to televise them this year. Without television, Hollywood simply won't care but as we saw for years and years, Hollywood will gladly look the other way past all of  your internal and ethical problems, if you have a prime-time show that does big numbers. 

As for television, well there are plenty of surprises there (nearly a complete shut-out for White Lotus for example) but that's probably because they have far too few categories to correctly honor TV. It's insane (and very much like the stingy SAG Awards) that there are only two categories (i.e. ten slots) to cover the entirety of supporting casts across limited series, anthology series, drama series, comedy series, and made for television movies.  

Full list of nominations follows (post still in progress so refresh your screens).

FILM PRIZES

BEST PICTURE, DRAMA 

BEST PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

BEST DIRECTOR 

BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA

BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL/COMEDY 

BEST ACTOR, DRAMA

BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL/COMEDY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST PICTURE, ANIMATED 

BEST PICTURE, NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BEST SCORE

BEST SONG 

 

TELEVISION PRIZES

 DRAMA SERIES

 

 

DRAMA ACTRESS

 

 

DRAMA ACTOR

 

 

COMEDY SERIES

 

 

COMEDY ACTRESS

 

 

COMEDY ACTOR

 

 

LIMITED SERIES, ANTHONY SERIES, OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

 

 

LIMITED SERIES ACTRESS

 

 

LIMITED SERIES ACTOR

 

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (ANY TELEVISION)

 

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR (ANY TELEVISION)

 

 

 

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