With the Golden Globes, it’s best to expect the unexpected, and during an awards season it’s a higher chance of odd and crazy nominations. That’s why, even though big movies like ‘Nomadland’ and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ were achieved when the Golden Globe nominations were announced on Wednesday, it’s the selection outside the left field and striking exclusions that everyone in Hollywood is talking about. has.
Here are some of the Globes’ most striking buttons and surprises.
The Biggest Snubs
“Da 5 Bloods”: Only two years after the Golden Globes Spike Lee gave a nice distribution of four nominations for ‘BlacKkKlansman’, the group brutally slammed its new film: Lee’s Vietnam veteran drama ‘Da 5 Bloods’ deserves no nominations (for Delroy Lindo or Chadwick Boseman) and was also included in the categories drama, director and screenplay. To make things even more difficult? Lee’s children Satchel and Jackson have been selected to serve as Golden Globe ambassadors this year, as every year.
Black guided dramas: In a party year for black ensemble films such as ‘One Night in Miami’, ‘Da 5 Bloods’, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’, the Golden Globes chose absolutely none of them for the best drama. final five, choose instead “Nomadland”, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, “The Father”, “Mank” and “Promising Young Woman.” (The same five films were also nominated in the screenplay category.) Although ‘One Night in Miami’ won a directorial nomination for Regina King, and ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ the most important awards for nominations, the exclusion of the top category is still eyebrows.
Meryl Streep: The Golden Globes love Meryl Streep – she is by far the most nominated person in the history of these awards. (They are so eager to nominate Streep that even if she included her name in this article, it made it possible for a series of nominations – I will have to watch!) And yet, in a year where Streep was able to collect two new bests – the actress nods for her comic work in ‘The Prom’ and ‘Let Them All Talk’, the Globes punctually excluded her from the Zoom invitation.
The actors of “Minari”: The Golden Globes stick to an archaic rule that moves an American film like ‘Minari’ into the foreign film category, simply because of the amount of Korean dialogue. The same problem hit ‘The Farewell’ last year, although that film earned at least one other nomination in Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical category, which Awkwafina eventually won. Although the family drama “Minari” boasts two highly acclaimed performances by Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-Jung, it has earned nominations for neither.
The biggest surprises
“Music”: This musical direction from Sia previously received the bulk of its headlines when the musician-filmmaker splashed in a joke about the role of a neurotypical actress in an autistic role. Then, out of nowhere, the film won two Golden Globe nominations for best comedy or musical and starring Kate Hudson. Congratulations, “Music”: you are the designated Golden Globe puzzle this year!
Jared Leto: Instead of naming fans like Paul Raci, so wonderful in “Sound of Metal”, or Chadwick Boseman, whose role in “Da 5 Bloods” could have made him a double nomination, the Golden Globes chose Jared Leto for his “Criminal Minds” level performance as a possible serial killer in ‘The Little Things’. Astonishing!
“The Mauritanian”: This legal drama under the radar about a prisoner in Guantánamo Bay, excluded from most predictions of awards, gave a strong performance and a nomination for best actor for Tahar Rahim and a supporting actress for Jodie Foster. Rahim is going to face an uphill battle in an uphill year to break into the final fifth of the Oscars, but Foster got a chance and the film itself just moved to the top of many voters’ stacks .
Three women for best director: Three years ago, Natalie Portman made the Globes’ best director category very clear by saying, “Here are the candidates who are all male.” This year, the Globes took revenge on the history of the stumbling blocks of female directors: for the first time, a majority of the best directors nominated – Emerald Fennell (‘Promising Young Woman’), Regina King (‘One Night in Miami’ “) ) And Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) – were women, in a category where only five women had been nominated before.