The folks at TV’s Big Four networks might as well have slept in Thursday morning and skipped the announcement of the Golden Globes nominations.
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Meanwhile, FOX’s “Empire” manages to get nominated for best drama series against HBO’s “Game of Thrones”, USA’s “Mr. Robot”, Netflix’s “Narcos”, and Starz’s “Outlander”.
In the best director category Ridley Scott (The Martian), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant), Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight”, Todd Haynes’s “Carol” and George Miller for “Mad Max: Fury Road” have been nominated. Cate Blanchett was nominated for “Carol”, as was Saoirse Ronan for “Brooklyn”, Rooney Mara for “Carol”, Alicia Vikander for “The Danish Girl”, and Brie Larson for “Room”. Along with Elba and Rylance, the supporting-actor category was rounded out by Paul Dano (Love & Mercy) and Michael Shannon (99 Homes).
This year’s Golden Globe nominations have the streaming leader Netflix dominating, as the New York Times reports here. Also surging was Adam McKay’s finance farce The Big Short, which earned four nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Comedy, and nods for Steve Carell and Christian Bale. For best supporting actress, Kate Winslet was nominated for “Steve Jobs”, as were Vikander for “Ex Machina”, Jennifer Jason Leigh for “The Hateful Eight”, Helen Mirren for “Trumbo”, and Jane Fonda for “Youth”.
The Globes nominations were announced a day after the Screen Actors Guild award contenders.
For best actor in a drama, the nominees are Cranston, Redmayne, Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Revenant”, Michael Fassbender for “Steve Jobs” and Will Smith for “Concussion”, a story about a pathologist who diagnosed degenerative brain disease in American football players. And while their drama choices – Room, Spotlight, The Revenant, Carol and Mad Max: Fury Road – are all films with plenty of Oscar talk around them, their comedies – Trainwreck, Spy, The Big Short, Joy and The Martian – include a couple of popular but not necessarily award-seeking films.
Netflix scored its first Globe in a film category for African war drama “Beasts of No Nation”, which debuted a few months ago simultaneously on Netflix’s streaming service and in a select number of theaters.
Hit shows such as Empire, Fargo and American Horror Story: Hotel helped Television Studios FX and Fox Broadcasting win nine more nominations.
It will be hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais. Ruffalo, however, was nominated for best actor in a comedy for his performance as a bipolar father in Infinitely Polar Bear.
In the Best Animated Film category, the Charlie Kaufman-scripted, stop-motion drama Anomalisa slotted in alongside a quartet of more family-friendly releases: Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, The Peanuts Movie and Shaun the Sheep Movie. The nominees are Hulu’s “Casual”, Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle”, Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black”, HBO’s “Silicon Valley”, Amazon’s “Transparent”, and HBO’s “Veep”. On top of Wright, Abuda and Light’s nominations, Wagner Moura of Narcos, Aziz Ansari of Master of None (Netflix) and Gael Garcia Bernal of Mozart in the Jungle also received acting nominations in their respective categories.
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The best actress in a TV series- comedy contenders are Rachel Bloom, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gina Rodriguez, Lilly Tomlin, Grace & Frankie, besides Louis-Dreyfus.
