Golden Globe Nominations To Reveal Hollywood Award Season Hopefuls
Muhammad Irfan Published December 07, 2019 | 08:30 AM
Los Angeles, Dec 7 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Dec, 2019 ) :Hollywood's award season hopefuls will start to take shape Monday with the nominations for the Golden Globes -- the first clear indicator of the movies and stars destined for glory.
The Globes are Tinseltown's second-most important film awards, and a strong bellwether for success at the season-ending Oscars.
Awards tracker Gold Derby predicts heartbreaking divorce saga "Marriage Story" will lead the way with six major nods.
The Netflix film portrays how a seemingly stable love can be ripped apart after Scarlett Johansson's actress moves from New York to Los Angeles, calling in the lawyers as she separates from a narcissistic theater director played by Adam Driver.
Hot on its heels are Martin Scorsese's three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic "The Irishman" -- also from Netflix -- and Quentin Tarantino's nostalgia-fest "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Each boasts major A-list power, with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino facing off against Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
With Vatican drama "The Two Popes" and Eddie Murphy comeback vehicle "Dolemite Is My Name" also on its roster, Netflix will expect to cement its place among -- or atop -- Hollywood's traditional studios.
"Just on sheer number of quality movies that seem to be doing well already, they should probably have the highest number," said Gold Derby's Chris Beachum.
Johansson could herself earn multiple nominations, with a supporting role in "Jojo Rabbit" -- the controversial satire about a 10-year-old Nazi and his imaginary friend Hitler.
It is among a batch of historic, wartime-set movies pushing for honors. Sam Mendes' trench epic "1917" and American Civil War-era "Little Women" are yet to hit theaters, but both are rapidly gaining momentum.
- 'The tastemakers' - In the acting categories, Joaquin Phoenix in dark comic tale "Joker" and Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland in "Judy" are hot favorites.
But previously unheralded films could begin a surge Monday -- as happened last year with Queen musical biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody." "The Globe voters choosing that as their best film of the year really told us... this might be doing way better than we expected," Beachum told AFP.
Despite negative reviews, star Rami Malek went on to bag the best actor Oscar.
Similarly, last year's controversial Oscar best film winner "Green Book" began its journey with the best drama Globe.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 90-odd voters last year selected every eventual Oscar winner in a major category except best musical score.
"They really are tastemakers, and the industry watches them to see what they're going to pick," said Beachum.
- Pre-dawn ceremony - Unlike the Oscars, the Globes split major categories into drama, and "comedy or musical." The awards also honor television. While these categories often mimic the small screen's showpiece Emmys, which take place in September, the Globes' later cut-off date can provide surprises.
Netflix's royal family drama "The Crown," featuring a new cast led by Olivia Colman, will be in contention.
So too will shows from Apple's new streaming service, including flagship "The Morning Show" led by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
HBO's "Succession" experienced a late popularity surge during its recent second season about the back-stabbing members of a powerful New York family.
Five nominees for each category will be revealed at a pre-dawn Beverly Hills ceremony presented by Dakota Fanning, Tim Allen and Susan Kelechi Watson.
The ceremony will be broadcast online and on NBC's "Today."The 77th Golden Globes will take place in Los Angeles on January 5, hosted by Ricky Gervais.
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