The nominees for the 81st Golden Globe Awards were announced on Monday 11th December, with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie the most-nominated of the films chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Warner Bros’ Barbie was nominated across 7 categories, including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Lead Actress and Supporting Actor, with 3 nominations in the Original Song category for “Dance the Night Away”, “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?”.

Justine Triet’s multi-time European Film Awards winner and the recipient of the 2023 Cannes Palme d’Or, Anatomy of a Fall, was nominated in both the Best Motion Picture – Drama category as well as the Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language category, as was Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest. The latter was also nominated in the Best Original Score – Motion Picture category alongside The Boy and the Heron, which is a leading name in the Best Motion Picture – Animated category beside Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

The 2024 Golden Globes will take place on 7th January 2024, and will be broadcast in the CBS in the US and in the UK on Paramount+.

The nominees for the 81st edition of the Golden Globe Awards (2024) are as follows:

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Air
American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
May December
Poor Things

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Io Capitano
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest

Best Motion Picture – Animated
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Wish

Best Director – Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
Greta Gerwig (Barbie)
Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Celine Song (Past Lives)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Annette Bening (Nyad)
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
Greta Lee (Past Lives)
Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple)
Jennifer Lawrence (No Hard Feelings)
Natalie Portman (May December)
Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves)
Margot Robbie (Barbie)
Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
Jodie Foster (Nyad)
Julianne Moore (May December)
Rosamund Pike (Saltburn)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Colman Domingo (Rustin)
Barry Keoghan (Saltburn)
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nicolas Cage (Dream Scenario)
Timothée Chalamet (Wonka)
Matt Damon (Air)
Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
Joaquin Phoenix (Beau Is Afraid)
Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe (Poor Things)
Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
Charles Melton (May December)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall)
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach (Barbie)
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Celine Song (Past Lives)
Tony McNamara (Poor Things)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things)
Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer)
Joe Hisaishi (The Boy and the Heron)
Micachu (The Zone of Interest)
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen
“Dance the Night” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa
“I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
“Peaches” by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, John Spiker, Jack Black
“Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz
“What Was I Made For?” by Finneas O’Connell, Billie Eilish

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

For the full list of television nominees, please visit the Golden Globes website.

The Golden Globes, known historically for being one of the leading ceremonies of awards season, has announced two new awards for their upcoming January 2024 show.

The first of the new awards is the Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. The Golden Globes website states that this award nominates those films that are the ‘highest-earning and/or most viewed films that have garnered extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence.’

In order to be eligible, films must have grossed a minimum of $150million in their theatrical run. $100million of that total must have come from the domestic (United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico) box office. Streaming films will be considered based on viewership data acquired by recognised industry sources. Eight films can be nominated, and their inclusion in this category will not rule out their eligibility in other categories such as Best Motion Picture and Best Animated Film.

Tim Gray, Golden Globes Executive Vice President, expressed his desire to rectify attitudes towards awards season, stating that “these films have typically not been recognized among industry awards, but they should be.”

This decision is reminiscent of the proposed Oscar for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film put forward by the Academy Awards in 2018. This announcement was met with criticism due to a lack of clarity regarding what it was actually awarding and for potentially diminishing a blockbuster’s chance at a Best Picture nomination. A month after its announcement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences retracted their decision and nothing has been heard of the award since. It will be interesting to see how the Golden Globes version of this award is handled and if the organisation will commit to it in future ceremonies.

The second of the new Golden Globe awards is the Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television. This award will celebrate achievements in traditional stand-up comedy from broadcast, cable, and streaming – so long as the project has a recognised distributor. A total of six nominees will be chosen in this category.

These announcements come following criticism of the Golden Globes over the past few years, directed at their former parent company The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In 2021, most of the criticism addressed a lack of diversity in the voting body, which hadn’t seen a black person join since 2002. This resulted in the 79th Golden Globe Awards being widely boycotted, with US broadcaster NBC refusing to broadcast it. The decision to promote more populist films through the new award could be the organisation’s attempt at repairing their relationship and reputation with filmgoing audiences.

The most recent ceremony saw Martin McDonough’s The Banshees of Inisherin be rewarded as the biggest winner of the night, picking up three awards including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Steven Spielberg‘s semi-autobiographical love letter to film, The Fabelmans, was awarded Best Motion Picture – Drama, with Spielberg himself earning the award for Best Director.

The 81st Golden Globe Awards will take place on Sunday, 7th January 2024.

The ceremony will seemingly go ahead, despite TV network NBC dropping it from their schedule. This decision followed a controversial report about the awards that revealed that there were no black people included in the 87 members of the HFPA. This is the body of journalists that vote at the awards. This shocking lack of diversity resulted in many celebrities shunning the show, including Tom Cruise who handed back his three Golden Globes.

Additionally, a report by the L.A. Times implied corruption within the association and suggested that voters were often bribed by production companies. The example given was when voters were flown to Paris by Netflix to coincide with the release of the streaming service’s series ‘Emily in Paris’. Despite the show’s mixed reviews, ‘Emily in Paris’ received two nominations including Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.

Following the controversy, the HFPA have recruited 21 new members that are predominately diverse and made its existing members take diversity and equality training. A chief diversity officer has been appointed in addition to a partnership with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to ensure an awards ceremony more representative of the diverse talent that makes up the film industry.

Typically the Golden Globes mark the beginning of awards season, being the second biggest ceremony behind the Oscars. However, it remains to be seen what impact the upcoming event will have with no network to air on and likely little fanfare from the nominated talent.

The nominations themselves seek to highlight the top films of the year. The most nominated films for the 2022 ceremony are Sir Kenneth Branagh’s drama Belfast and Jane Campion’s gripping western The Power of the Dog. Both films are nominated for 7 awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director. Belfast has already picked up some significant awards including the People’s Choice Award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The Power of The Dog meanwhile continues Netflix’s trend of releasing award show juggernauts, with previous efforts including The Irishman and Roma. 

Behind these two are the star-studded Don’t Look Up, Will Smith vehicle King Richard, Paul Thomas Anderson’s love letter to 1970s L.A., Licorice Pizza, and Steven Spielberg’s first ever musical, West Side Story. Each have been nominated for 4 awards.

The winners will be announced on the 9th January 2022.

The nominees in film for the 2022 Golden Globes are:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Belfast
Coda
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Cyrano
Don’t Look Up
Licorice Pizza
Tick, Tick … Boom!
West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

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BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Mahershala Ali (Swan Song)
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up)
Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)
Anthony Ramos (In the Heights)

BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Marion Cotillard (Annette)
Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Jennifer Lawrence (Don’t Look Up)
Emma Stone (Cruella)
Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOTON PICTURE
Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)
Jamie Dornan (Belfast)
Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOTON PICTURE
Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up)
Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The French Dispatch (Alexandre Desplat)
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
Dune (Hans Zimmer)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 
“Be Alive” (King Richard)
“Dos Orugitas” (Encanto)
“Down to Joy” (Belfast)
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” (Respect)
“No Time to Die” (No Time to Die)

BEST MOTION PICTURE – ANIMATED
Encanto
Flee
Luca
My Sunny Maad
Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST MOTION PICTURE – FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Compartment No. 6 (Finland)
Drive My Car (Japan)
The Hand of God (Italy)
A Hero (Iran)
Parallel Mothers (Spain)

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In a ceremony hosted simultaneously from New York City and Los Angeles by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the delayed 2021 Golden Globes took on a unique, socially distanced look for the first time, with awards announced in a socially distanced studio setting and presented to the winners via live video call.

In film, 15 awards were handed to the best of the best in their respective categories, with the headline winners being the recently deceased Chadwick Boseman in the Best Actor – Drama category and Chloé Zhao, who became just the 2nd woman to ever win the Best Director Golden Globe. There was also a celebration of the life, career and contributions to cinema and television of Jane Fonda, who was awarded the Cecile B. deMille (lifetime achievement) award for contributions across 7 decades.

The HFPA had been the source of much controversy in the build-up to the awards after it was revealed that the association of 87 “foreign” (to the United States) journalists did not have one single black member. In addition, reports from the LA Times suggested that some members of the association were flown to Paris by Netflix and received payments in the region of $2million from the streaming giants ahead of the Globes’ surprise nominations for ‘Emily in Paris’ in the television categories. In one segment, Association members took to stage to recognise they had done wrong and promised to change.

Traditionally, the Golden Globes have proven to be a strong indicator for future awards shows, and with that in mind here are the winners in film for the 2021 Golden Globes…

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA – NOMADLAND
The Father
Mank
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY – BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Hamilton
Music
Palm Springs
The Prom

THE CECILE B. DEMILLE (LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT) AWARD – JANE FONDA

BEST DIRECTOR – CHLOE ZHAO (NOMADLAND)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
David Fincher (Mank)
Regina King (One Night In Miami)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of Chicago 7)

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA – CHADWICK BOSEMAN (MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM)
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Gary Oldman (Mank)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA – ANDRA DAY (THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY)
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY – SACHA BARON COHEN (BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM)
James Corden (The Prom)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton)
Dev Patel (The Personal History of David Copperfield)
Andy Samberg (Palm Springs)

BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY – ROSAMUND PIKE (I CARE A LOT)
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Kate Hudson (Music)
Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit)
Anya Taylor Joy (Emma)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOTON PICTURE – DANIEL KALUUYA (JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH)
Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Jared Leto (The Little Things)
Bill Murray (On the Rocks)
Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night In Miami)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOTON PICTURE – JODIE FOSTER (THE MAURITANIAN)
Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Helena Zengel (News of the World)

BEST SCREENPLAY – AARON SORKIN (THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Jack Fincher (Mank)
Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton (The Father)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – TRENT REZNOR; ATTICUS ROSS; JOHN BATISTE (SOUL)
Alexandre Desplat (The Midnight Sky)
Ludwig Göransson (Tenet)
James Newton Howard (News of the World)
Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross (Mank)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – “IO SI (SEEN)” (THE LIFE AHEAD)
“Fight For You” (Judas and the Black Messiah)
“Hear My Voice” (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
“Speak Now” (One Night In Miami)
“Tigress & Tweed” (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – SOUL
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Wolfwalkers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – MINARI
Another Round
La Llorona
The Life Ahead
Two of Us

Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class (2011).

Much like Magneto and metal, Michael Fassbender has no problem attracting big name directors. Having already worked with Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott and Steve McQueen, the Irish actor could soon be adding David Fincher to his list. Fassbender is currently in talks to star in assassin thriller The Killer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is being made for Netflix and is expected to begin filming in September.

The Killer will be Fincher’s second feature length film in collaboration with the streaming service. The first was last year’s Mank, a biopic following Citizen Kane writer Herman J Mankiewicz. Sam Sewell-Peterson in his review for The Film Magazine described it as ‘a technical triumph with a towering turn from [Gary] Oldman’. Its critical praise from multiple outlets has no doubt secured the film numerous award nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Actor at the 2021 Golden Globes.

In November 2020, Fincher announced he had signed a deal at Netflix for another four years at least. This came off the back of his previous efforts with them, including executive producing successful series ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Mindhunter’. It seems for now that Netflix is the perfect home for the director.

The Killer will reunite Fincher with Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote the screenplay for Se7en and was an uncredited script doctor for Fight Club. Both are some of Fincher’s most popular films from his early days, so that news will likely excite long time fans who have been less-enthused by the director’s more recent efforts.

The story for this new film will be based on a French graphic novel of the same name, written by Matz with art by Luc Jacamon.

According to THR, Fassbender would play the lead character, an unnamed assassin ‘who begins to psychologically crack as he develops a conscience, even while his clients continue to demand his skills.’ Fassbender is known for his cold blooded portrayal of Magneto in the X-Men franchise and played an assassin in the ill-fated Assassin’s Creed adaptation, so he seems like a good fit for this role. This will follow a recent slew of box office duds and critical failures for the actor, including The Snowman, X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Alien: Covenant. Hopefully this and the recently wrapped Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) feature, Next Goal Wins, will see a resurgence of success for him.

No release date is known, but if filming is expected to commence in September then it will likely hit screens sometime in 2022.

In a delayed announcement presented by hosts Taraji P. Henson and Sarah Jessica Parker, and streamed via the E! News YouTube channel, the HFPA chose to celebrate the likes of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Netflix hit The Trial of the Chicago 7, as well as independent hits Nomadland and One Night In Miami.

The Golden Globes ordinarily mark the start of the big industry awards shows across the English speaking world, with each year’s awards ceremony taking place during the first week of the new year. For 2021, the announcement of the nominees was delayed in accordance to the delay of the 78th Golden Globes Awards ceremony which will take place live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday 28th February 2021.

The HFPA’s choices in filmmakers across its major awards are usually seen as indicators as to how members of the likes of the BAFTAs and Oscars will vote in the ballots for their respective awards shows.

Announced ahead of time was the awarding of the Cecile B. deMille (lifetime achievement) award to screen icon and rights activist Jane Fonda.

The nominees in film for the 2021 Golden Globes are: 

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
The Father
Mank
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Hamilton
Music
Palm Springs
The Prom

BEST DIRECTOR
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
David Fincher (Mank)
Regina King (One Night In Miami)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of Chicago 7)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Gary Oldman (Mank)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
James Corden (The Prom)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton)
Dev Patel (The Personal History of David Copperfield)
Andy Samberg (Palm Springs)

BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Kate Hudson (Music)
Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit)
Rosamund Pike (I Care A Lot)
Anya Taylor Joy (Emma)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOTON PICTURE
Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Jared Leto (The Little Things)
Bill Murray (On the Rocks)
Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night In Miami)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOTON PICTURE
Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Jodie Foster (The Mauritanian)
Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Helena Zengel (News of the World)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Jack Fincher (Mank)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of Chicago 7)
Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton (The Father)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat (The Midnight Sky)
Ludwig Göransson (Tenet)
James Newton Howard (News of the World)
Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross (Mank)
Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross; John Batiste (Soul)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Fight For You” (Judas and the Black Messiah)
“Hear My Voice” (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
“Io Si (Seen)” (The Life Ahead)
“Speak Now” (One Night In Miami)
“Tigress & Tweed” (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Another Round
La Llorona
The Life Ahead
Minari
Two of Us

The first joint venture will see the formation of PMRC as PMC takes over the daily operations of a range of outlets. PMC is the parent company of Variety, Deadline and IndieWire, three of the leading publications in the film industry. PMC also owns Rolling Stone and Music Business Worldwide. MRC holds ownership over The Hollywood Reporter as well as Billboard and Vibe. These outlets will now be run under the same banner.

Jay Penske, PMC chief executive, says, “These are all brands I’ve long admired. Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vibe have created some of the finest content in their respective industries and have contributed immensely to the heightened quality of journalism covering entertainment and music today. We feel very fortunate for this valuable partnership with the exceptional MRC team and the opportunity to continue the legacy of these tremendous brands for the next many decades.”

The second joint venture concerns content production and calls for MRC to create new content based on the intellectual properties now shared by PMRC. This will range from film to television, live shows and more. MRC already own Dick Clark Productions who run many awards shows such as the Golden Globes and Billboard Music Awards. MRC have also had a range of successful film releases, including Baby Driver, Knives Out and Hotel Transylvania 3. The company have enjoyed a similar success with their television shows, including ‘Ozark’ and ‘House of Cards’. 

Currently there are no leadership changes for either company, and each will continue to operate independently outside of these new ventures.

PMC purchased Deadline in 2009 and Variety in 2012. MRC (formerly Valence Media) acquired THR, Billboard and Vibe in 2018.

Of the film awards, it was war drama 1917 that picked up the biggest wins with awards in the Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Direector categories, meanwhile there was a notable win for Awkwafina in the Leading Actress – Comedy/Musical category for her work in The Farewell, with Joaquin Phoenix earning the Best Actor – Drama award for his work on Joker. Netflix’s high budget, awards-intentioned The Irishman was notably left without any award wins despite several high profile nominations.

Here is the full list of the film award winners for the 2020 Golden Globes:

As voted for by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the nominees for the 2020 Golden Globes are as follows: 

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
1917
The Irishman
Joker
Marriage Story
The Two Popes

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Dolemite Is My Name
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Rocketman

BEST DIRECTOR
Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite)
Sam Mendes (1917)
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood)

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Christian Bale (Ford v Ferrari)
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Jonathan Price (The Two Popes)

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Renee Zellweger (Judy)

BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Daniel Craig (Knives Out)
Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood)
Taron Egerton (Rocketman)
Eddie Murphy (Dolemite is My Name)

BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Ana De Armas (Knives Out)
Awkwafina (The Farewell)
Blanchette (Where’d You Go, Bernadette)
Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart)
Emma Thompson (Late Night)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
Annette Bening (The Report)
Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers)
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story)
Bong Joon-Ho; Han Jin-Won (Parasite)
Anthony McCarten (The Two Popes)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood)
Steven Zaillian (The Irishman)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat (Little Women)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker)
Randy Newman (Marriage Story)
Thomas Newman (1917)
Daniel Pemberton (Motherless Brooklyn)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Beautiful Ghosts” (Cats)
“I’m Gonna Love Me Again (Rocketman)
“Into the Unknown” (Frozen II)
“Spirit” (The Lion King)
“Stand Up” (Harriet)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Lion King
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Farewell
Les Miserables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

You can read The Film Magazine’s reviews of the following nominated films at the links below:

The Irishman
Joker
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
Parasite
Ford v Ferrari
The Farewell
The Lion King
Toy Story 4
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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As seems to be typical each year given the distinction the Association places between Drama and Musical/Comedy in the main categories, there was controversy surrounding the nominees for this year’s awards, especially regarding Green Book being considered a Comedy/Musical and Bohemian Rhapsody being considered a drama. Each film then won their respective Best Picture categories, earning yet more division across the vocal audiences of film critics social media users alike.

Away from the competitive awards, Jeff Bridges earned the Association’s Cecil B. Demille award (given to those who have “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment”) and was typically humble and relaxed during his acceptance speech.

Here is the full list of winners for each of the Golden Globes’ film categories:

Best Motion Picture – Drama: Bohemian Rhapsody
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama: Glenn Close (The Wife)
Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Rosamund Pike (A Private War)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased)
John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Green Book
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Vice

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Charlize Theron (Tully)
Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Christian Bale (Vice)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Robert Redford (The Old Man & the Gun)
John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Amy Adams (Vice)
Claire Foy (First Man)
Emma Stone (The Favourite)
Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Sam Rockwell (Vice)

Best Motion Picture – Animated: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language: Roma
Capernaum
Girl
Never Look Away
Shoplifters

Best Director – Motion Picture: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
Peter Farrelly (Green Book)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Adam McKay (Vice)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture: Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie (Green Book)
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Adam McKay (Vice)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture: Justin Hurwitz (First Man)
Marco Beltrami (A Quiet Place)
Alexandre Desplat (Isle of Dogs)
Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther)
Marc Shaiman (Mary Poppins Returns)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture: “Shallow” (A Star Is Born)
“All the Stars” (Black Panther)
“Girl in the Movies” (Dumplin’)
“Requiem For a Private War” (A Private War)
“Revelation’ (Boy Erased)

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