Golden Globes kick off Hollywood’s big awards race

There is one film that seems hegemonic this year: ‘Emilia Perez’A French-Mexican co-production about Jacques Audiard’s transgender drug trafficker. It did very well at the Cannes festival, did well at the box office and with critics, and also did well in the comedy or musical category. Received 10 nominationsone more than last year’s stellar ‘Barbie’. It’s in the running for best picture in the musical or comedy category – even if it’s a dramatic musical – as well as best non-English speaking movie. Spanish heroine Karla Sofia Gascón also starts as favourite, but she is there too. Demi Moore and ‘body horror’ as a formidable opponent in ‘The Substance’.

Architects, singer-songwriters and cardinals

At the other end of this extreme film is another revelation of the year: ‘Wild’It has the second most nominations, seven, and although it is a good example of a production with an ‘indie’ approach, it slips among the big ones without a sound, with an A budget. This meditation on post-war America and brutalist architecture would have been a clear winner of the Globe award for best dramatic film, were it not for its strategic outlook. ‘Completely unknown’‘Biography’ about Bob Dylan’s early music years starring Timothée Chalametand according to its consensus ‘Meeting’a new portrait of the papal conclave and white smoke with star Ralph Fiennes.

Between him and Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino’s ‘queer’ Daniel Craig (and William S. Burroughs), the best dramatic actor award is almost certain to be won. There’s surprise in the other category, because there are reasons to consider Hugh Grant as a candidate for a comedy or musical film for ‘Heretic’, even though it’s the former leading man’s first major role in horror.

A dramatic duel

‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ and ‘Conclave’ top most categories, while the remaining films firmly favor one or two nominees at most: ‘The Substance,’ ‘Anora,’ ‘Rivals,’ ‘Bad.’ ‘ or ‘Completely unknown’. In any case, rewards are there to bring surprises, good or bad. The strongest duel in the best dramatic actress category – The only place where Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ appears Tilda Swinton nominated – since Kate Winslet And Angelina JolieFor compositions by photographer Lee Miller and opera singer María Callas, Swinton starts with an advantage over Nicole Kidman, Fernanda Torres and Pamela Anderson (an accolade would be welcome because she’s excellent in ‘The Last Show Girl’) and their positioning against fame and silly glamour. because of) preferences for rewarding interpretations of real characters contradictory lives

In the television section, the issue seems much more dispersed. Prize ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s TV series, adapted from the movie of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – although it turned out to be a chestnut like an egg – would be nice, but they are still in the drama series category. conform more to the canon ‘Jackal’ And ‘Diplomat’not to mention the second season ‘squid game‘was nominated before its release. In cathodic comedy, it seems that new seasons ‘Bear’ And ‘Only the murders in the building’ They have a certain favoritism, but it’s hard to imagine which miniseries will win the day because the year has been great with so many developments. ‘Ripley’, ‘Penguin’ any ‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez’.