Golden Globe Nominations 2017
Monday, December 11, 2017 at 8:34AM
NATHANIEL R in All the Money in the World, Golden Globes, Gyllenhaalic, Oscars (17), The Greatest Showman, precursor awards

by Nathaniel R

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has reached its diamond anniversary. Alfre Woodard and Sharon Stone announced the nominations. Here are the Globe nominations in all their glory and folly (it's always a combo of the two with any awards body... though people tend to be harsher on the Globes in this perception matter). The biggest surprise was the big love for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World (which no other awards group had screened to date) but the Golden Globes do like to be first as is always evident in their TV nominations which are generally quite favorable to new series (note the love for The Handmaid's Tale, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and more). As is also their habit they embraced a musical for their comedy/musical category giving a Best Picture nomination to The Greatest Showman

Among the saddest snubs (discussed in fuller detail here) were Jake Gyllenhaal for Stronger (though sister Maggie was nominated again for her amazing work on The Deuce), Regina Hall for Comedy Actress (somehow they needed Helen Mirren again), and a complete shutout for three high profile Comedies or Musicals: Girls Trip, Beauty and the Beast, and The Big Sick

FILM NOMINATIONS

Motion Picture Drama
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

No surprises and all solid bets for Oscar nominations for Best Picture. The film arguably hurt most by an omission here is Darkest Hour since The Florida Project and Mudbound never seemed like "Globe" films, if you know what I mean. All the other nominations with commentary are after the jump...

Motion Picture Comedy/Musical
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I Tonya
Lady Bird

These results are as to be expected too. The HFPA rarely pass up the chance to honor a musical in the category so it was either The Greatest Showman or Beauty and the Beast. They opted for the more recent watch (and also the better movie, if you ask me, but I am a known B&B hater -- a stiff awkward gawdy copy of the classic animated feature).

The film that has to be hurting from this lineup is The Big Sick which was tailor-made for this kind of honor and has been campaigning a lot (something the Globes usually respond to) and was somehow passed over. I blame the recency effect of I Tonya and The Disaster Artist.

Comedy/Musical Actress
Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker
Margot Robbie, I Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes

Three cheers for Emma Stone's best work since Easy A getting at least one awards season honor. What is Helen Mirren doing here for a film no one cares about? Well the HFPA are known Mirren obsessives with 15 nominations and 3 wins over the years. The big conspicuous miss here is Emma Watson (Beauty and the Beast) who seemed right up their alley celebrity-wise but we were rooting for Regina Hall (Girls Trip)

Comedy/Musical Actor
Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
James Franco, Disaster Artist
Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Ansel Elgort is the surprise (though we did predict him for fun) since people like Baby Driver a lot and the only reason it isn't competing for bigger prizes (given the fanfare for it this year) is that it's neither "serious" nor brand new. It'll be interesting to see if Franco takes this with ease or if the Globes (which have known to be surprising with Comedy winners) go in a different direction.

Drama Actress
Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game
Sally Hawkins, Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards
Meryl Streep, The Post
Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World

Michelle Williams arrives as a last moment spoiler. Does she deliver in the film or is this just the Globes being their 'we like whatever we just watched!' selves? This lineup is, alas, not good news for Annette Bening in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool who probably needed it to boost her not opening till the very last second profile.

Drama Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Tom Hanks, The Post
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman Israel, Esq

Where is Jake Gyllenhaal for Stronger? Why did people skip that movie? If you're curious about the lack of public response to Roman Israel Esq though Denzel is usually so bankable, I'd read this review from Pajiba. I haven't yet seen the film but this seems as astute a call as anyone as to why no one seemed to care when the film arrived. 

Supporting Actress
Mary J Blige, Mudbound
Hong Chau, Downsizing
Allison Janney, I Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

This list is 60% women of color despite the fact that Tiffany Haddish who has been rising in Oscar nomination buzz for Girls Trip missed out. Holly Hunter, long expected to show at the Oscar nominations for The Big Sick, was also pushed out. But then the HFPA clearly didn't respond to The Big Sick. It seems remarkable that Hong Chau, who is not yet a celebrity in the way the Globes prefer, has been able to maintain buzz given the huge downward buzz turn on Downsizing. The movie is far more interesting as a movie that people are prepared to admit for whatever reason. For what it's worth these cold shoulders happen every year. Critics and the public and awards bodies need to be in just the right mood for anything divisive. 

Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards

Hammer was a shoo-in given the Globes love of glamorous stars but this is still quite a disappointing result for Michael Stuhlbarg who is even better than Hammer in the film (and a true supporting player unlike the film's top billed star). If SAG matches these results Wednesday that's your Oscar lineup. But we think we'll see a bit more variation and thus more suspense for Oscar nomination morning.

Director
Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Ridley Scott, All the Money in the World
Steven Spielberg, The Post

No Jordan Peele. No Greta Gerwig. No Dee Rees. No Luca Guadagnino. The Globes rejected their opportunities for diversity here which is not typical for them, all told. They've been kinder to female directors, gay directors, and directors of color than Oscar has over the years (in the past they've nominated Ava DuVernay and Spike Lee and Barbra Streisand and Todd Haynes to name some examples who've never had the parallel Oscar honor.)

Screenplay
Shape of Water
Lady Bird
The Post
Three Billboards
Molly’s Game

They don't differentiate between Adapted and Original which accounts for the plentiful snubs including, most shockingly, the two arguable Oscar frontrunners in the screenplay categories: Call Me By Your Name and Get Out

Score
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
John Williams, The Post
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk


Song
"Remember Me" Coco
"Home" Ferdinand
"This is Me" The Greatest Showman
"Mighty River" Mudbound
"The Star" The Star

Looks like Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige will be at the Globes. It's always been hilarious to us that the Globes Song category is so much more celebrity driven than Oscar's parallel category since the stars don't actually perform at the Globes but they do (sometimes) at the Oscars. This category is not historically very predictive of Oscar so don't assume these are the future Oscar nominees. 

Foreign Language
In the Fade (Germany)
First they Killed My Father (Cambodia)
Loveless (Russia)
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Square (Sweden)

All high profile films. The only one we knew would happen was First They Killed My Father since the Globes have been in Angelina Jolie's corner since before she was a global sensation (she had her first win there even prior to her breakout in Gia). Don't be surprised if it wins and Jolie nabs her fourth Golden Globe.  All of these films are in the running for Oscar's foreign film prize (which is not always the case as the Globes have different eligibility requirements).

Animated Film
Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

This could actually be your Oscar lineup in a weak animated year if people like Ferdinand when it arrives.

TELEVISION NOMINATIONS

Comedy Series
black•ish
Marvous Mrs Maisel
Master of None
SMILF
Wil & Grace

People online seem to be furious that Veep was shut-out but really people. It's not like it's been shunned by awards bodies over its long run. It's no great tragedy to skip a year after so much dominance.

Actress Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Alison Brie, GLOW
Rachel Brosnahan, Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Issa Rae, Insecure
Frankie Shaw, SMILF

Thrilled for Alison Brie and Rachel Brosnahan but as usual yours movie truly has so much catching up to do with TV so can't really comment on the others.

Actor Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, black•ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Kevin Bacon, I Love Dick
William H Macy, Shameless
Eric McCormack, Will & Grace

 

Drama Series
The Crown
The Handmaid's Tale
Game of Thrones
Stranger Things
This Is Us

Actress Drama Series
Caitronia Balfe, Outlander
Claire Foy, The Crown
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce
Katherine Langford, 13 Reasons Why
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale

 

Actor Drama Series
Sterling K Brown, This is Us
Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Jason Bateman, Ozark

Limited Series
Big Little Lies
Feud: Bette and Joan
Fargo
Top of the Lake: China Girl
The Sinner

Interesting that Top of the Lake was nominated but Elisabeth Moss wasn't.

Actress Limited Series
Jessica Biel, The Sinner
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan
Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan
Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies

Actor Limited Series
Robert De Niro, Wizard of Lies
Jude Law, The Young Pope
Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks
Ewan McGregor, Fargo
Geoffrey Rush, Genius

Supporting Actress, Series of any kind
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale
Chrissy Metz, This is Us
Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies
Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies

Supporting Actor, Series of any kind
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies
Christian Slater, Mr Robot
David Thewlis, Fargo

As with SAG the Globes are very stingy with supporting actors and have one category that has to encompass everything. Hence numerous omissions of famous and deserving players.

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