Movies barbie And Oppenheimera duo of feature films that topped the box office this summer, dominated the Golden Globe nominations on Monday.
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A true cultural and commercial phenomenon, the film Barbie, by American Greta Gerwig, was nominated nine times, notably in the categories of Best Comedy, Best Director, and Best Song (with three titles in the running).
Oppenheimera tortuous portrait of the designer of the atomic bomb directed by Christopher Nolan, has eight nominations, notably in the Best Dramatic Film and Best Director categories.
In addition to the “Barbenheimer” duo, the nominations podium is completed by the films Killers of the Flower Moon, by Martin Scorsese, and Poor creatures, by Yorgos Lanthimos, with seven nominations each.
The Golden Globes, the first awards ceremony of the season in the United States, will also honor TV series Succession And The Last of Us.
They will be held in Beverly Hills (California) on January 7, and will be broadcast by the national network CBS, owned by the cinema giant Paramount, which replaced its competitor NBC.
With this change of broadcaster, a reshuffled jury and new owners, the Golden Globes are trying to boost their audiences and put aside the controversies of the past.
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Worst audience score
Once placed just behind the Oscars in terms of audience, the Golden Globes only attracted 6.3 million viewers in 2023, their worst audience score, after 18 million at the start of 2020, just before the COVID pandemic. 19.
A collapse despite the presence of heavyweights in the film industry like Steven Spielberg, Colin Farrell, Brad Pitt and Michelle Yeoh.
This year, other big names – Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan Gosling – are expected. We could also see Paul Giamatti, Bradley Cooper, Timothée Chalamet and Natalie Portman. Last January, Cate Blanchett shunned the ceremony.
It has lost its luster due to accusations of racism and corruption, and some critics in Hollywood say the reforms raise new ethical questions.
For decades, the Golden Globes were owned, operated and awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). An eclectic group of around a hundred journalists covering the entertainment section for international media, often criticized by industry professionals for its amateurism and opacity.
These behind-the-scenes barbs came to light in 2021, when the Los Angeles Times had revealed that the organization had no black people and that its members accepted incredible gifts.
Quest for redemption
The ceremony was then boycotted the following year by Hollywood and remains in search of redemption.
The Golden Globes were bought in June by investors, including American billionaire Todd Boehly. The HFPA was disbanded and a new plan was adopted to try to restore its former prestige.
Members of the old HFPA are now employees of the new Golden Globes corporation, paid to watch films, vote and write articles for the organization’s website.
A situation potentially leading to conflicts of interest.
Especially since some of the new owners are essential players in the industry. Like the production company Penske Media, which owns the magazines Variety And The Hollywood Postponeor the Eldridge company, which owns a stake in the A24 film studio, regularly in the running for Hollywood awards.
“There is something inappropriate about a Globes voter being paid to write on the Globes website about an actor he might nominate for a Golden Globe being brought back to the stage. a ceremony to the company for which he works”, recently pointed out the LA Times in an editorial.
For the newspaper, “the new model seems to be a gigantic public relations machine”.
But the new Golden Globes are defending themselves.
According to the organization, paying a salary of $75,000 to voters in Hollywood puts an end to a flawed system, where precarious journalists, often independent, accepted sumptuous gifts and luxurious all-expense-paid press trips from the studios.
More than 200 non-member, and therefore unpaid, voters from around the world were also designated for greater impartiality. And the new board includes respected industry veterans, like the ex-editor of VarietyTim Gray.
See also:
The main cinema nominations
Anatomy of a fall
The American note
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
The area of interest
- Best Musical or Comedy Film
Air: courting a legend
American fiction
barbie
Those who remain
May December
Poor creatures
Bradley Cooper for Maestro
Greta Gerwig for Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Creatures
Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese for The American Note
Celine Song for Past Lives
- Best Actor in a Drama Film
Bradley Cooper for Maestro
Leonardo DiCario for The American Note
Colman Domingo for Bayard Rustin
Barry Keoghan for Saltburn
Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott for All Of Us Strangers
- Best Actress in a Drama Film
Annette Bening for Unsinkable
Lily Gladstone for The American Note
Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee for Past Lives
Carey Mulligan for Maestro
Cailee Spaeny for Priscilla
- Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film
Nicolas Cage for Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet for Wonka
Matt Damon for Air: courting a legend
Paul Giamatti for Those Who Remain
Joaquin Phoenix for Beau is afraid
Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction
- Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Film
Fantasio Barrino for The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence for No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman for May December
Alma Pöysti for Dead Leaves
Margot Robbie for Barbie
Emma Stone for Poor Creatures
- Best Animated Film
The boy and the heron
Elementary
Spider-Man: Through the Spider-Verse
Super Mario Bros. The film
Suzume
The wish: Asha and the lucky star
- Best film in a language other than English
Anatomy of a fall (France)
Dead leaves (Finland)
Me, captain (Italy)
Past Lives (United States)
The Circle of Snow (Spain)
The area of interest (UK/US/Poland)