Emilia Perez, The Brutalist win best films, Shogun wins big – Golden Globes as they happened
Musical Emilia Perez and The Brutalist take the top movie awards, Shogun, Hacks and Baby Reindeer the top TV prizes, Demi Moore honoured too
Hollywood’s awards season heats up at the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical Emilia Perez – about a Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a woman – leading the charge.
Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying film earned 10 nominations, the most ever for a musical or comedy film, including for star transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who plays the title character, as well as co-stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.
Emilia Perez – which is almost entirely in Spanish – is hoping to throw down the gauntlet in the race to the Academy Awards, which will take place in early March.
“The far and away favourite here going in has got to be Emilia Perez,” Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond says.
“I think it’s got the international thing going for it, and it just swept the European Film Awards.”
The Golden Globes offer separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals – widening the field of stars who will walk the red carpet, and also offering more options for Academy voters set to soon cast ballots for the Oscar nominations.
Emilia Perez started its march towards Hollywood glory at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize.
Other nods for the film, which is streaming on Netflix after debuting in theatres, include best director, two entries for best original song, best score, best non-English language film, best screenplay, and best comedy or musical film.
Wicked, the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earned four nominations, including for pop sensation Ariana Grande as the bubbly pink-clad Glinda and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo as the green-skinned Elphaba.
Hammond said he believed Wicked would be at a “disadvantage” at the Globes, given its lack of nominations in key categories, but he favours Erivo to take home the prize for best lead actress.
Hammond calls The Substance his dark horse of the season, and says its message about the perils of ageing in Hollywood could resonate with voters.
The Brutalist, which earned seven nominations, behind Emilia Perez, will do battle with papal drama Conclave, a fictionalised account of high-stakes Holy See horse-trading, depicting how the death of a pope sends the church’s various factions into battle for its future. It is based on a novel by Robert Harris.
Conclave star Ralph Fiennes earned one of the film’s six nominations.
