Golden Globe nominations: The ‘Barbenheimer’ effect is not over

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By David Mouriquand

Published on 11/12/2023 - 16:02•Updated 12/12/2023 - 09:00

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After scandal plagued years, the Golden Globes are ready for a comeback. Here are the nominees for January’s 81st edition of the awards - with 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' leading the pack, and European cinema shining bright.

The Golden Globe Awards, one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts after the Oscars, has announced its nominations.

The revamped organisation, now a for-profit endeavor with a larger and more diverse voting body, has listed the nominees for its January awards show, after several troubled years.

Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place on 7 January.

Greta Gerwig's Barbie dominates the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods, including Best Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs.

It was closely followed by its meme companion, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which scored eight nominations, including Best Picture Drama and for performers Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt.

Competiting with Oppenheimer in the Best Picture Drama cartegory are current awards darling Anatomy of a Fall; Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon; Bradley Cooper’s stunning Bernstein biopic Maestro; one of our favourite films of the year – Celine Song’s Past Lives; and Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest.

For Best Picture Musical or Comedy, Barbie faces off against Air; American Fiction; The Holdovers; the knotty and memorable May December; and the deliriously brilliant Poor Things.

Of note is the strong European contingent, with France’s Anatomy of a Fallcontinuing its steady awards rise, with four nominations (Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Screenplay, Best Picture Non-English Language, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama), and the UK’s The Zone of Interest racking up three nominations (Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Picture Non-English Language, and Best Original Score Motion Picture).

Scroll down for the full list of nominees.

The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of awards season, with a new home on CBS.

It has been a tumultuous few years behind the scenes for the Golden Globes, following a bombshell report in the Los Angeles Times in 2021, which found that there were no Black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on the awards.

Stars and studios boycotted the Globes and NBC refused to air it in 2022 as a result.

After the group added journalists of colour to its ranks and instituted other reforms to address ethical concerns, the show came back in January 2023 in a one-year probationary agreement with NBC. The broadcast got its smallest audience ever, with 6.3 million viewers. The network did not opt to renew.

In June, billionaire Todd Boehly was granted approval to dissolve the HFPA and reinvent the Golden Globes as a for-profit organization.

In mid-November, CBS announced that it would air the ceremony on the network and also stream it on Paramount+.

Here is the full list of nominees:

FILM

Best Motion Picture Drama

Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
Anatomy of a Fall

Best Picture Musical or Comedy

Barbie
Poor Things
American Fiction
The Holdovers
May December
Air

Best Director

Bradley Cooper — Maestro
Greta Gerwig — Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things
Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song — Past Lives

Best Screenplay

Barbie — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Poor Things — Tony McNamara
Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan
Killers of the Flower Moon — Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
Past Lives — Celine Song
Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Sandra Hüller - Anatomy of a Fall
Annette Bening - Nyad
Greta Lee - Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny - Priscilla

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Barry Keoghan - Saltburn
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence – No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman – May December
Alma Pöysti – Fallen Leaves
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Nicolas Cage - Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet - Wonka
Matt Damon - Air
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Joaquin Phoenix - Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction

Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture

Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Julianne Moore - May December
Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture

Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Charles Melton - May December
Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

Best Picture - Non-English Language

Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Io Capitano (Italy)
Past Lives (United States)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Motion Picture - Animated

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Wish

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate Films)
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (AMC Theatres)

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix — Poor Things
Robbie Robertson — Killers of the Flower Moon
Mica Levi — The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Joe Hisaishi — The Boy and the Heron

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

Barbie — “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas
Barbie — “Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
Barbie — “I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
She Came to Me — “Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
The Super Mario Bros. Movie — “Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, and John Spiker
Rustin — “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz