It’s awards season, and Hollywood is getting all glammed up, ready to see who are the winners of this year’s Golden Globes.
As the 76th annual Golden Globes get underway in Los Angeles
The reinterpretation of the enduring Hollywood love
story stars Lady Gaga alongside Cooper — who also wrote and
directed it — has everything Hollywood
It’s the favourite for taking out gongs in Best Picture (Drama),
Best Actress (Drama) for Gaga, Best Song for Shallow and Best Actor (Drama) for Cooper.
Rami Malek and Joe Mazzello in Bohemian
Rhapsody
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It’s main competition is set to come from another musical film, Bohemian
Rhapsody, whose star Rami Malek some believe could pull off the
acting upset over Cooper.
Both films are up for Best Picture (Drama) — against Black Panther, BlacKkKlansmanand If Beale Street Could Talk.
Meanwhile, though the Christian Bale-led political drama Vice —
the story of former US vice-president Dick Cheney — has six nominations (the
most of any film), it is Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite,
a period power struggle set in the 18th century English court of Queen Anne,
that is the most decorated film of the bunch.
So far this awards season, there has been no deviation from the
acclaim for The Favourite trio of Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.
Emily Blunt, nominated twice this year by the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association (Best Actress for Mary Poppins
Returns and Best Supporting Actress for A Quiet Place)
could give Colman a run for her money, as both are up for the Best Actress
(Musical or Comedy) category.
Will Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne win?
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Or will Emily Blunt’s magical nanny put a
spell on Hollywood
Last year’s ceremony was the first major awards show after the
birth of the #MeToo movement. Female attendees wore black in solidarity, with presenter Natalie Portman
pointedly introduced the “all male” directing nominees.
A year later, Hollywood remains
consumed with gender inequality and highly placed men have continued to fall.
But this year’s best director nominees are also all male again.
Up for the director’s gong alongside Cooper are Alfonso Cuaron (Roma), Peter Farrelly (Green Book), Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) and Adam McKay (Vice).
How much these subjects will be discussed in the
broadcast, to be hosted by the unexpected pairing of Andy Samberg and Sandra
Oh, is unknown. Samberg and Oh have said they’re hoping to set a
lively and carefree tone. Oh, the star of the BBC America drama series Killing Eve,
is also a nominee
Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg are hosting this
year’s Golden Globe Awards.
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The lines between film and TV are
particularly blurred at this year’s Globes as more and more Hollywood
stars take roles on the small screen.
In fact, there are just as many movie
stars nominated in the TV categories as there are in the film categories.
Among them: Julia Roberts (Homecoming), Jim Carrey (Kidding), Amy Adams (up for both film Vice and TV miniseries Sharp Objects) Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method), Benedict Cumberbatch (Patrick Melrose), Penelope Cruz (The Assassination Of Gianni
Versace: American Crime Story), Patricia Arquette (Escape At Dannemora), Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal) and Laura Dern (The Tale).
