‘One Battle after another’ leads Golden Globes Nominations with nine

Paul Thomas Andersons politically charged One Battle After Another leads the nominations for the Golden Globes with nine, organizers announced Monday, December 8, as the race to the Oscars kicked into high gear. The Globes, set for January 11, are widely seen as a predictor for the Academy Awards. Norwegian family dramedy Sentimental Value was second with eight nominations, followed by period horror movie Sinners with seven, and Shakespeare family drama Hamnet with six. Wicked: For Good ended up with five nominations a disappointing showing for the smash hit musical, which failed to secure a nod for best musical/comedy picture.  The Golden Globes offer separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals, which widens the field of stars and fuels the suspense. One Battle After Another, which centers on an aging revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti), leads the contenders in the comedy/musical categories.   The film is a rollicking ride featuring leftist radical violence, immigration raids, and white supremacists. It won a pile of nominations, including best comedy/musical picture, best director, and five acting nods for DiCaprio, Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del T, and Teyana Taylor.  On the drama side, the top contenders all delve into the past. Sentimental Value, a moving story of a fractured family, won nominations for Swedish legend Stellan Skarsgard and co-star Renate Reinsve.  It is one of several foreign language films to gain traction in the main categories, along with Brazils The Secret Agent and South Koreas No Other Choice.  Sinners, from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, stars Michael B. Jordan as twins in the criminal underworld who encounter a sinister force as they return home to racially segregated Mississippi in the 1930s. The film was a runaway box office success, and both Coogler and Jordan secured nominations. It led the nods for the Critics Choice Awards on Friday with 17. One editor noted that the film has so much going for it its a big moneymaker, it was a culturally significant hit. Hamnet, from Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao, stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare, who tries to forge a career as a playwright while his wife Agnes played by Jessie Buckley contends with the perils of plague and childbirth in Elizabethan England.  Both stars earned nominations, along with Zhao. Guillermo Del Toros adaptation of Frankenstein earned five nominations, including one for Jacob Elordi as the iconic monster.  Wicked: For Good, the blockbuster conclusion of the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, won nominations for Ariana Grande, as the bubbly pink-clad Glinda, and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo, as the green-skinned Elphaba. It also earned two nods for best original song, but failed to make the best picture short list. The best actress categories are a competitive field. The women up for comedy-musical lead acting honors include Oscar winner Emma Stone (Bugonia), Erivo, Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs, Id Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann L, Lee) and newcomer Infiniti.  On the drama side, past Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence (Die, My Love) and Julia Roberts (After the Hunt) will do battle with Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Reinsve, Tessa Thompson (He,dda) and Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby). Each main category will have six nominees, not five as in past years.  The Globes also honor the best in television, with HBOs black comedy anthology The White Lotus, sci-fi office thriller Severance, and searing teen murder saga Adolescence leading the contenders.  The gala, set for January 11 in Beverly Hills, will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, whose previous year’s performance was a hit with audiences, drawing more than 10 million viewers. Oscar nominations are due on January 22, so the picks for the Globes will begin to map the road to the Academy Awards.The post One Battle after another leads Golden Globes Nominations with nine appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.