Golden Globe Nominations - The Movies
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 9:20AM
NATHANIEL R in Golden Globes, Oscars (20), Sarah Jessica Parker, Taraji P Henson, precursor awards

by Nathaniel R

Hollywood was up early for the Globe nominations. They were read this time by Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P Henson. As per usual it was absolute chaos with nonsensical snubs, controversies, and weird inclusions (everyone surely googling "Kate Hudson Music"), and happy news too like Michelle Pfeiffer snagging her 8th Globe nomination. The full list of movie nominations is after the jump...

Drama 

Surprise ratio: Not much. This reads like a very Globe list.
What was left out: The most noticeable omission is that none of the three black dramas that have garnered so much awards press (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Da 5 Bloods, and One Night in Miami) were included. Also missing which might have happened are Minari and News of the World

Musical or Comedy 

Surprise Ratio: A little. Music is the obvious... what's that? Whenever the Globes throw in a "what's that" it's something that hasn't opened yet but screened for them. This film opens February 12th and stars Kate Hudson as the new guardian of her half sister "Music" who is austistic. 
Who was left out: Would have been nice to Emma. here, don't you think?

Actress, Drama


Surprise ratio: Andra Day gives a traditional strong biopic performance so it's absolutely not a surprise though the movie's low profile (to date) made it not a sure thing
Who was left out: Winslet, Loren, Zendaya, Coon, Beharie, Adams (who would have been a very Globe choice)... These five might actually transfer all the way to Oscar night.

Actress, Musical or Comedy


Surprise Ratio: OFF THE CHARTS. No Meryl Streep who the Globes love twice as much as the Oscars. Kate Hudson in Music? We'll have to look it up. Pike for a movie that only just barely started to screen. We expected to see Pfeiffer, Taylor-Joy, and Bakalova. This is Pfeiffer's 8th career nomination. Her first six were consecutive and all in Best Actress. How awesome is that? 
Who was left out: Sad to not see Cristin Milioti here for Palm Springs. And again it's very strange and atypical to see the Globes leave Meryl Streep out, not once but twice: The Prom and Let Them All Talk. 

Actor, Drama

Surprise Ratio: Tahar Rahim is a shock. He's a fine actor but usually when the Globes throw a surprise in its someone who is a mainstream US or UK star (like, oh, Kate Hudson)
Who was left out: Delroy Lindo, Mads Mikkelsen, Steven Yeun, Ben Affleck and Tom Hanks (either of whom woulda been a very Globe choice)

Actor, Musical or Comedy


Surprise Ratio: The Corden nod, while atrocious, would not have been a shock save for the fact that they DIDN'T nominate Meryl Streep who is 1,000 times better in the same movie. Bizarre. The rest is unsurprising and kind of lovely. 
Who was left out: We're drawing a blank. Surely there's someone.

Supporting Actor

Surprise Ratio: LOL. Leto. This is as embarassing as the Corden nomination. On the other hand it's not so unGlobe like. Isn't this rather like the Aaron Taylor Johnson nod for Nocturnal Animals that one year. AND HE WON.
Who was left out: Actual Supporting Actors (sigh) as three of the five are leads. 

 

Supporting Actress 

Surprise ratio: Helena Zengel is a teensy tiny bit of a surprise but not much since...
Who was left out: ...the  Globes were never going to go for Youn Yuh-jung in Minari. That's not the way the play the awards game (sigh). The big "snub" is surely Ellen Burstyn since they obviously watched Pieces of a Woman. 

Director


Surprise ratio: none. The Globes LOVE directors who are either very famous or are big buzzy names that season (sometimes that makes their list better than Oscars list and sometimes that makes it worse). This is the first time women have dominated the Best Director category.
Who was left out: Given the Best Picture backing, Florian Zeller in The Father but he doesn't fit the Globe standard criteria for this category as they probably didn't know who he was.

Screenplay

Surprise ratio: none.
Who was left out: who wasn't? The Globes only have one category for screenplay so a bunch gets left out every season. The biggest miss in terms of Oscar appeal is probably One Night in Miami.

Foreign Language Film


Surprise Ratio: None as we are never surprised by their foreign choices which are impossible to forsee
What was left out: Too much to mention!
Note: The Life Ahead and Minari are not eligible in the parallel category at the Oscars but the other three could turn up... though we suspect the only transfer will be Another Round. The Globes and the Oscars RARELY see eye to eye in this category

Score

Surprise ratio: None
What was left out: The buzz on scores this year has been next to non-existent since Reznor & Ross have hogged all the attention but it's sad not to see Emile Mosseri's work in Minari.

 Songs 

Surprise ratio: very minor as we never know what to expect in Song other than celebrities and we ggot that heer with Diane Warren, Leslie Odom Jr, and Andra Day. But it's sad that all of these are end credits songs. Nothing that's really part of the movie. 
Who was left out: It's worth noting that no musicals were nominated. Nothing from Over the Moon or The Prom or even Music (which has Sia behind it and which they obviously liked... but maybe none of it is new songs?) 

Animated Feature


Surprise Ratio: none. The Globes like it very mainstream in animated feature so this is exactly as expected. The Oscar list will not be the same.
What was left out: Anything unusual or from overseas (Wolfwalkers is from Ireland it has a high US profile)

 

What do you make of the Globe Movie nominations this year? (Abe will be covering the TV nods in a separate post) 

 

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