The movie Emilia Perez will he be the big winner of the 82nd Golden Globes ceremony organized on the night of January 5 to 6 in Los Angeles? Jacques Audiard’s musical odyssey about the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker is very well placed to win the prize.
The French filmmaker’s film has ten nominations, notably in the category of best comedy, best director, best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón who plays the title role, best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez, and best screenplay. With a record number of nominations for a musical, this film awarded at Cannes and broadcast by Netflix “is the big favorite, by far“, reminds AFP Pete Hammond, of the specialized site Deadline.
Filmed mainly in Spanish, Emilia Perez also competes in the categories of best international film, best soundtrack and best song – two nominations. Its harvest will give an indication of its potential for the Oscars in March 2025. According to Pete Hammond, its main competitor for the best comedy prize remains the Cannes Palme d’Or Anora where Sean Baker chronicles the setbacks of a young prostitute from Brooklyn, portrayed as a modern Cinderella.
Holiday commercial cardboard, the movie Wicked appears “disadvantage”with only four nominations. But its star Cynthia Erivo, who plays the witch of Wizard of Oz opposite singer Ariana Grande in this adaptation of a Broadway musical, could steal the show from transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón. “She’s so spectacular in this movie, (…) the way she sings while she’s flying through the air.”insiste Pete Hammond.
Another French film, The Substance also plays the “outsiders”, notes the columnist. This horrific fable by Coralie Fargeat, where Demi Moore plays a former Hollywood glory addicted to youth serum, has five nominations, notably in the categories of best comedy, best direction and best actress. Macabre tale about the dictates of eternal youth, the film “will find an echo in Hollywood“, says Pete Hammond.
Still marked by the scandal revealed in 2021 on the ethical failings, racism and corruption of their members, the Golden Globes have largely reformed in recent years. Among other things, they added more than 200 members from the four corners of the globe to their jury. This change is felt in the nominations, according to Pete Hammond. The ceremony is “less predictable” et “certainly more international. They are more open to different genres of films“.
The drama categories, traditionally separated from comedies by the Golden Globes, also reflect this evolution. The Canadian film The Brutalist portrait of a Holocaust survivor architect trying to rebuild his life in the United States, received seven nominations. It is aiming for the prize for best dramatic film, but will notably have to get rid of the papal thriller Conclave nominated in six categories.
The stars of both films, Adrien Brody and Ralph Fiennes – brilliant as a cardinal embroiled in the Vatican’s shenanigans to elect a new pope – face off for the title of best actor in a drama film. A race in which Timothée Chalamet could be invited, for his remarkable incarnation of Bob Dylan in A complete stranger.
But this year, it is on the fate of actresses that the Golden Globes are most likely to weigh, three days before the close of voting for Oscar nominations. Already fierce on the comedy side, the competition is just as fierce on the drama side. Angelina Jolie shines with her interpretation of singer Maria Callas in Maria, Nicole Kidman impresses as a powerful woman with troubled sexuality in Babygirl and Fernanda Torres moves as a widow devoted to her children under the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1970s, in I’m still here. Without forgetting Kate Winslet, who lends her features to the war photographer Lee Miller, where Pamela Anderson, surprising as a revue dancer overtaken by age in The Last Showgirl.
Best Drama Film:
– The Brutalist
– A complete stranger
– Conclave
– Dune: second part
– Nickel Boys
– September 5
Best comedy or musical:
– Anora
– Challengers
– Emilia Perez
– A Real Pain
– The Substance
– Wicked
Best dramatic actor:
– Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
– Timothée Chalamet, A complete stranger
– Daniel Craig, Queer
– Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
– Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
– Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best Drama Actress:
– Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
– Angelina Jolie, Maria
– Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
– Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
– Fernanda Torres, I’m still here
– Kate Winslet, Lee Miller
Best actor in a comedy or musical:
– Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
– Hugh Grant, Heretic
– Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
– Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
– Glen Powell, Hit Man
– Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Best actress in a comedy or musical:
– Amy Adams, Nightbitch
– Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
– Karla Sofia Gascón, Emilia Perez
– Mikey Madison, Anora
– Demi Moore, The Substance
– Zendaya, Challengers
Best Supporting Actor:
– Yura Borisov, Anora
– Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
– Edward Norton, A complete stranger
– Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
– Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
– Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Best Supporting Actress:
-Selena Gomez, Emilia Perez
– Ariana Grande, Wicked
– Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
– Margaret Qualley, The Substance
– Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
– Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Best director:
– Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
– Sean Baker, Anora
– Edward Berger, Conclave
– Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
– Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
– Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Best Foreign Language Film:
– All We Imagine as Light
– Emilia Perez
– The Young Woman with the Needle
– I’m still here
– The seeds of the wild fig tree
– Vermiglio or The Mountain Bride
Best animated film:
– Flow, the cat who was no longer afraid of water
– Vice-Versa 2
– Memoirs of a snail
– Vaiana 2
– Wallace and Gromit: The Palm of Vengeance
– The Wild Robot
