With the Golden Globe, it is better to expect the unexpected and, during such an atypical award season, there is an even greater chance of strange and crazy nominations. That’s why, while great films like “Nomadland” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” scored when Golden Globe nominations were announced on Wednesday, it’s the unexpected choices and surprising exclusions that make everyone in Hollywood speak.
Here are some of the most notable criticisms and surprises on the globe.
The biggest snobs
“Da 5 Bloods”: Just two years after the Golden Globe gave Spike Lee a good range of four nominations for “BlacKkKlansman”, the group brutally snubbed their new film: Lee’s veteran Vietnamese drama “Da 5 Bloods” received no nominations for actor (by Delroy Lindo or Chadwick Boseman) and was left blank in the drama, director and script categories as well. Making things even stranger? Lee’s sons, Satchel and Jackson, were chosen to serve as Golden Globe ambassadors this year, every year.
Dramas with black led: In a landmark year for films by black groups such as “One Night in Miami”, “Da 5 Bloods”, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Judas and the Black Messiah”, the Golden Globe chose absolutely none of them for the best drama five finalists, instead of selecting “Nomadland”, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, “The Father”, “Mank” and “Promising Young Woman”. (The same five films were also nominated in the script category.) Although “Night in Miami” was nominated for the director by Regina King, and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” received important nominations for Act. , its exclusion from the top category is still astounding.
Meryl Streep: The golden globes love Meryl Streep – she is, by far, the most suitable person in the history of this award. (They are so eager to name Streep that even including her name in this article may have made him eligible for a number of nominations – I have to check!) And yet, in a year when Streep could have collected two new bests- the actress agrees with her comic work on “The Prom” and “Let Them All Talk”, the Globes clearly excluded her from Zoom’s invitation.
The “Minari” actors: The Golden Globe continues to obey an archaic rule that takes an American film like “Minari” to the category of films in a foreign language simply because of the amount of Korean dialogue. The same problem hit “The Farewell” last year, although this film won at least one other nomination in the category of best actress in a comedy or musical, which Awkwafina ended up winning. Although the family drama “Minari” can boast two critically acclaimed performances by Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-Jung, he received no nominations for either.
The biggest surprises
“Music”: This musical directed by Sia already made most of its headlines when the musician-filmmaker got into a fight on Twitter about casting a neurotypical actress for an autistic role. Then, out of nowhere, the film attracted two Golden Globe nominations for best comedy or musical and lead actress Kate Hudson. Congratulations, “Music”: you are the head scratcher at this year’s Golden Globes!
Jared Leto: Instead of naming supporting actors like Paul Raci, so wonderful in “Sound of Metal”, or Chadwick Boseman, whose role in “Da 5 Bloods” could have nominated him twice, the Golden Globe chose Jared Leto for his “Criminal” Minds “level performance as a possible serial killer in” The Little Things “. Disconcerting!
“The Mauritanian”: Excluded from most award predictions, this little-known legal drama about a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay had a strong showing, earning a nomination for best actor by Tahar Rahim and a supporting actress nomination by Jodie Foster. Rahim will face an uphill battle to make it to the bottom five Oscars in a busy year, but Foster had a chance and the film itself just made it to the top of the viewer stacks.
Three women for best director: Three years ago, Natalie Portman presented the category of best director of Globes in a very incisive way, saying: “Here are the exclusively male nominees”. This year, the Globes made up for their history of snubbing filmmakers with a vengeance: for the first time, most nominees for best director – Emerald Fennell (“Promising young woman”), Regina King (“One night in Miami”) and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) – they were women, in a category where only five women had been nominated before.