Golden Globes 2023 nominations: Key takeaways and full list of nominees

The 80th Golden Globes take place next year, on 10 January - Copyright AP Photo

Published on 12/12/2022 - 18:42•Updated 18:48

The 2023 Golden Globe nominations have been announced.

The top films in the Best Drama race are Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tár and Top Gun: Maverick. Leading the way for Best Musical or Comedy are Babylon, The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Glass Onion and Triangle of Sadness.

You can see the full list of nominees below - but before the complete lowdown, here are the main talking points:

Wail, Banshees, Wail

Martin McDonagh’s terrific tragi-comedy The Banshees of Inisherin has emerged as early frontrunner.

It has picked up eight nominations: Best Picture – drama or comedy, as well as Best Director, Screenplay, Leading Actor in a comedy or musical (Colin Farrell), Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon), twice for Best Supporting Actor (Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan) and Best Score.

All deserving nods for one of our favourite films of 2022 – stay tuned to our daily Cultural Advent Calendar, which after celebrating the best of music and streaming, will be focusing on the very best of cinema in the coming days…

Close behind is Everything Everywhere All At Once, which picked up six nominations, followed by Babylon and The Fabelmans with five.

Fingers crossed for Everything Everywhere All At Once, which deserves every award it receives; and while it would be foolish to bet against Spielberg and his handsomely made but dispiritingly saccharine autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, here’s hoping that the award goes to a more deserving film.

But considering Hollywood's boundless love for itself, you can bet it won’t go home empty handed.

Notable snubs

Where are Keke Palmer and Stephanie Hsu, who both merited nods for their show-stopping performances, respectively in Jordan Peele's Nope and the aforementioned (and still brilliant) Everything Everywhere All At Once?

On that note…

Women, anyone?

No women are in the running for Best Director this year, and none of the 10 Best Picture nominees are directed by a woman.

This is somewhat baffling considering critically acclaimed films this year from Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King), Chinonye Chukwu (Till) and Sarah Polley (Women Talking).

Still, it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, as only nine women have been up for Best Director in the Globes’ 80-year history, and only three have won: Barbra Streisand for Yentl in 1983, Chloé Zhao for Nomadland in 2020 and Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog last year.

Let’s all remind ourselves of this moment in 2018 courtesy of Natalie Portman:

And this leads us to…

Who really cares at this point?

No one asked for the return of the Golden Globes.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2022 award show was dropped by NBC and rightly boycotted at the start of this year.

The Golden Globes have been plagued by scandals over the HFPA’s lack of diversity and questionable business practices (read: the privileged shenanigans from a provenly non-diverse group of so-called-influencers who dish out awards to the highest bidders). Despite the HFPA taking steps to reform itself by increasing the diversity of its voting pool and now banning its members from accepting gifts from studios (yep, that wasn’t the case before), it’s time to face facts: no one takes these nominations or awards seriously.

Tom Cruise, who has three Golden Globe statuettes, returned his awards last year as a mark of protest and this year’s Best Actor frontrunner Brendan Fraser (The Whale) announced last month he would not attend the awards ceremony after alleging that he was sexually assaulted in 2003 by Philip Berk, a longtime HFPA member and a former president of the organisation.

It’ll be interesting to see who else boycotts the ceremony come 10 January 2023 or if it’s all forgive and forget.

The organisation is clearly aware that it’s make-or-break time for them and they’re rather cynically trying to get the popular vote, luring in viewers with big blockbuster titles and safe bets for Best Drama: Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, The Fabelmans, and Top Gun: Maverick.

At least they got it right when they nominated Todd Field’s _Tár_…

So, begrudgingly, here's the full list of nominees:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Taron Egerton, Black Bird
Colin Firth, The Staircase
Andrew Garfield, Under the Banner of Heaven
Evan Peters, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Sebastian Stan, Pam and Tommy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Jessica Chastain, George and Tammy
Julia Garner, Inventing Anna
Lily James, Pam and Tommy
Julia Roberts, Gaslit
Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

F. Murray Abraham, The White Lotus
Domhnall Gleeson, The Patient
Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird
Richard Jenkins, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Seth Rogen, Pam and Tommy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Donald Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
Wednesday

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series Drama

Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Laura Linney, Ozark
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Hilary Swank, Alaska Daily
Zendaya, Euphoria

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus
Claire Danes, Fleishman Is in Trouble
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Under the Banner of Heaven
Niecy Nash-Betts, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus

Best Performance by an Actress, TV Comedy

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
Jean Smart, Hacks

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series

Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Julia Garner, Ozark
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series

John Lithgow, The Old Man
Jonathan Pryce, The Crown
John Turturro, Severance
Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
Henry Winkler, Barry

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Black Bird
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Pam and Tommy
The Dropout
The White Lotus: Sicily

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama

Jeff Bridges, The Old Man
Kevin Costner, Yellowstone
Diego Luna, Andor
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Adam Scott, Severance

Best Drama Series

Better Call Saul
The Crown
House of the Dragon
Ozark
Severance

Best Motion Picture, Animated

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Inu-Oh
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red

Best Original Score, Motion Picture

Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Women Talking
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
John Williams, The Fabelmans
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Song, Motion Picture

“Carolina,” Taylor Swift (Where the Crawdads Sing)
“Ciao Papa,” Guillermo del Toro & Roeban Katz (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
“Hold My Hand,” Lady Gaga and Bloodpop (Top Gun: Maverick)
“Lift Me Up,” Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
“Naatu Naatu,” Kala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR)

Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language