LOS ANGELES:
Hollywood’s awards season kicks into excessive gear on Sunday on the Golden Globes gala, with the politically charged “One Battle After One other” anticipated to solidify its standing because the movie to beat, two months forward of the Oscars.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s screwball thriller, which facilities on an getting old revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti), is a rollicking trip that includes violent leftist radicals, immigration raids and white supremacists.
At a time when the US is deeply polarized, many critics and pundits have hailed the movie as capturing the second.
With 9 nominations, “One Battle” seems a lock to take dwelling the prize for greatest comedy/musical movie.
“We’re seeing an actual sweep and a juggernaut in that film,” Deadline’s awards columnist and chief critic Pete Hammond informed AFP, recalling that up to now, it has gained each greatest image prize up to now this season.
DiCaprio will vie for greatest actor with Timothee Chalamet, who boosted his Oscars marketing campaign with a win on the Critics Alternative Awards on Sunday for his star flip in “Marty Supreme” as an bold Fifties desk tennis participant.
“Leonardo DiCaprio could be tremendously helped by truly successful on the Globes. That is the perfect second to cease Timothee Chalamet’s momentum earlier than the Oscars,” Hammond stated.
Teyana Taylor, who performs an unapologetically daring leftist revolutionary, might gasoline a sweep for “One Battle” if she will be able to decide up the prize for greatest supporting actress.
However in her means are Amy Madigan for her wacky villainous flip in “Weapons” and Ariana Grande for her portrayal of Glinda within the blockbuster “Depraved: For Good.”
‘Sinners’ versus ‘Hamnet’
The Golden Globes supply separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals — widening the sphere of stars who might stroll the crimson carpet, and fueling the suspense.
“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s searing interval horror movie in regards to the segregated South of the Nineteen Thirties, is anticipated to be the hardest competitors for “One Battle” on the Oscars.
However on the Globes, they’re in separate classes.
“Sinners” stunned moviegoers with its eclectic mixture of vampires, politics, race relations and blues music.
It’s the frontrunner for the perfect drama movie Globe, in opposition to rival “Hamnet,” which stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as his grief-stricken spouse, as the 2 address the loss of life of their younger son.
“Sentimental Worth,” the Norwegian household dramedy starring Stellan Skarsgard, earned a robust eight nominations, can be within the operating.
A “Sinners” victory “could be a sign of an actual change,” Hammond says, noting that previously, voters “have been by no means truly that drawn to Black tales.”
Buckley is the favourite for greatest drama actress honors.
The Golden Globes went via a disaster interval, following a Los Angeles Occasions expose in 2021 that confirmed that the awards’ voting physique — the Hollywood International Press Affiliation — had no Black members.
Now below new possession, and with the HFPA disbanded, a wider internet of abroad critics has been introduced in to select the winners.
“That makes it far more troublesome for pundits to foretell,” Hammond defined.
“These new voters are much less eager on films that make some huge cash on the field workplace, and extra concerned with worldwide films which can be extremely praised in Cannes and Venice.”
Prize for Iran’s Panahi?
A type of films is Brazilian thriller “The Secret Agent,” and lead actor Wagner Moura — already a winner on the Cannes Movie Competition — is favored to win greatest drama actor honors over “Sinners” star Michael B. Jordan, in accordance with awards prediction website Gold Derby.
Skarsgard, a Hollywood stalwart, is poised to take dwelling the award for greatest supporting actor.
“The Secret Agent” and “Sentimental Worth” will vie for the Globe for greatest non-English language movie with “It Was Simply An Accident” from Iranian director Jafar Panahi.
“The Globes might wish to make a press release and provides him this prize,” Hammond stated of Panahi, who has been sentenced in absentia to 1 yr in jail over “propaganda actions” in opposition to the Islamic republic.
The Globes additionally honor the perfect in tv, with HBO’s black comedy anthology “The White Lotus,” sci-fi workplace thriller “Severance” and searing teen homicide saga “Adolescence” main the contenders.
Comic Nikki Glaser will return as host of the gala in Beverly Hills.
Listed below are the nominees in key classes for the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, which will likely be handed out on Sunday.
“One Battle After One other” leads all contenders with 9 nods, adopted by “Sentimental Worth” with eight and “Sinners” with seven.
Finest movie, drama:
“Frankenstein”; “Hamnet”; “It Was Simply An Accident”; “The Secret Agent”; “Sentimental Worth”; “Sinners”
Finest movie, musical or comedy:
“Blue Moon”; “Bugonia”; “Marty Supreme”; “No Different Alternative”; “Nouvelle Obscure”; “One Battle After One other”
Finest male actor, drama
Joel Edgerton, “Practice Goals”; Oscar Isaac, “Frankenstein”.
