Golden Globes Nominations: Shape of Water, Big Little Lies Score Big

Guillermo Del Toro's "The Shape of Water," Steven Spielberg's "The Post," and Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" were among the big winners as nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards were unveiled on Monday.

"Three Billboards," a revenge drama, "The Post," a dramatic re-telling of the Pentagon Papers saga, and "The Shape of Water," a sci-fi romance, earned best film and director nods in addition to picking up nominations for the performances of several of its actors. "The Shape of Water" nabbed a leading seven nominations, while "Three Billboards" and "The Post" picked up six a piece. The other best drama nominees were Christopher Nolan'sWorld War II epic "Dunkirk" and Luca Guadagnino's lyrical romance "Call Me by Your Name.
Unlike other awards shows, the Globes separates its film honors into best drama and best musical or comedy categories. It also hands out hardware to television shows. The Globes are a looser, boozier affair than the more staid Oscars, with A-list stars downing flutes of Moet between victory speeches. They are also the subject of some controversy for their insular voting body of roughly 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which in the past has shown an appetite for accepting lavish junkets and meals from contending films and studios. The group is comprised of international journalists, and has made efforts to clean up its ethical guidelines in recent years.

Who's The Host?
Seth Meyers, who you may know from his NBC late-night show, the aptly named Late Night with Seth Meyers. Or maybe you somehow caught his appearance in the 2008 movie Journey to the Center of the Earth — which, last I checked, was most notable for killing off the last vestiges of Brendan Fraser’s cinematic career.
It’s Meyers’ first time hosting, but he’ll be following in the talk-show-host footsteps of Jimmy Fallon, who hosted the Golden Globes last year. So at least the bar has been set for Meyers’ brand of humor. NBC is marketing the show under the tagline “Hollywood, we have a lot to talk about,” so expect lots of fun and not-at-all uncomfortable and awkward humor about the recent turmoil in Hollywood over sexual harassment and abuse.
Meyers has commented in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he took the gig in the first place after conversations with his wife and women on the writing staff, viewing it as “an opportunity to be able to say some things that you wouldn’t be able to say in previous years.”

When Does This Awards Shindig Start?
The 75th Golden Globe Awards will start at 5PM PT / 8PM ET on Sunday night, January 7th. The ceremony will take place at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The show will be broadcast live on NBC, as it has been since 1993.
And if you just can’t get enough of the glamour, you can tune in an hour earlier for the red carpet arrivals, which will be streamed exclusively on Facebook.

– FILM –
Best film, drama
-Call Me by Your Name
-Dunkirk
-The Post
-The Shape of Water
-Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best film, musical or comedy
-The Disaster Artist
-Get Out
-The Greatest Showman
-I, Tonya
-Lady Bird

Best actor, drama
-Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
-Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
-Tom Hanks, “The Post”
-Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
-Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

Best actress, drama
-Jessica Chastain, “Molly’s Game”
-Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
-Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
-Meryl Streep, “The Post”
-Michelle Williams, “All the Money in the World”

Best actor, musical or comedy
-Steve Carell, “Battle of the Sexes”
-Ansel Elgort, “Baby Driver”
-James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
-Hugh Jackman, “The Greatest Showman”
-Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”

Best actress, musical or comedy
-Judi Dench, “Victoria & Abdul”
-Helen Mirren, “The Leisure Seeker”
-Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
-Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
-Emma Stone, “Battle of the Sexes”

Best supporting actor
-Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
-Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name”
-Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
-Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
-Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best supporting actress
-Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
-Hong Chau, “Downsizing”
-Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
-Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
-Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”

Best director
-Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
-Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
-Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
-Ridley Scott, “All The Money in the World”
-Steven Spielberg, “The Post”

Best foreign language film
-A Fantastic Woman
-First They Killed My Father
-In the Fade
-Loveless
-The Square

Best animated feature
-The Boss Baby
-The Breadwinner
-Coco
-Ferdinand
-Loving Vincent

– TELEVISION –
Best drama series
-The Crown
-Game of Thrones
-The Handmaid’s Tale
-Stranger Things
-This is Us

Best drama actor
-Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
-Sterling K. Brown, “This is Us”
-Freddie Highmore, “The Good Doctor”
-Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
-Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”

Best drama actress
-Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
-Claire Foy, “The Crown”
-Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Deuce”
-Katherine Langford, “13 Reasons Why”
-Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Best musical or comedy series
-Black-ish
-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
-Master of None
-SMILF
-Will & Grace

Best musical or comedy actor
-Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
-Aziz Ansari, “Master of None”
-Kevin Bacon, “I Love Dick”
-William H. Macy, “Shameless”
-Eric McCormack, “Will and Grace”

Best musical or comedy actress
-Pamela Adlon, “Better Things”
-Alison Brie, “Glow”
-Issa Rae, “Insecure”
-Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
-Frankie Shaw, “SMILF”

Best limited series or TV movie
-Big Little Lies
-Fargo
-Feud: Bette and Joan
-The Sinner
-Top of the Lake: China Girl

Best limited series or TV movie actor
-Robert De Niro, “The Wizard of Lies”
-Jude Law, “The Young Pope”
-Kyle MacLachlan, “Twin Peaks”
-Ewan McGregor, “Fargo”
-Geoffrey Rush, “Genius”

Best limited series or TV movie actress
-Jessica Biel, “The Sinner”
-Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies”
-Jessica Lange, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
-Susan Sarandon, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
-Reese Witherspoon, “Big Little Lies”

– FILMS WITH MOST NOMINATIONS –
-The Shape of Water – 7
-The Post – 6
-Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri – 6
-Lady Bird – 4

AFP

January 05, 2018