The evening started strong for this French film, with a Golden Globe for best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña, brilliant as a lawyer kidnapped by the heroine of the film.
“You are someone I admire enormously,” the actress told Jacques Audiard, thanking him for “creating rich and complex characters.”
Best comedy, best director, best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón in the title role, best screenplay… This Netflix film has a real chance in all the major categories.
Filmed mainly in Spanish, the feature film also competes in the categories of best international film, best soundtrack, and best song – two nominations. His harvest will indicate his potential for the Oscars in March.
According to Pete Hammond, columnist at Deadlineits main competitor for the best comedy prize remains the Cannes Palme d’Or Anorawhere Sean Baker chronicles the setbacks of a young prostitute from Brooklyn.
Holiday commercial cardboard, Wicked appears “at a disadvantage,” with only four nominations for this adaptation of a Broadway musical.
But Pete Hammond believes that his star Cynthia Erivo, “spectacular” as a witch of the Wizard of Oz facing singer Ariana Grande, could steal the show from Karla Sofía Gascón.
Comedian Nikki Glaser opened the evening with a barrage of witty jokes, including tackling Challengerscomedy about a love triangle with Zendaya.
“This movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card,” the rapper currently in custody on multiple charges of rape and sexual assault, she joked.
The French “outsider” The Substance
Another French film, The Substanceappears as an “outsider”, notes the columnist.
This horrific fable by Coralie Fargeat, where Demi Moore plays a former Hollywood glory addicted to a youth serum, has five nominations, notably in the categories of best comedy, best direction and best actress in a comedy.
A macabre tale about the dictates of eternal youth, the film “will resonate in Hollywood,” judges Pete Hammond.
THE Golden Globes have reformed in recent years, after the vast scandal revealed in 2021 on the corruption and racism of their members. Their jury has notably become much larger and more diverse.
The ceremony is “less predictable” and “definitely more international,” observes Pete Hammond. “They are more open to different genres of films.”
The dramatic categories, traditionally separated from comedies by Golden Globesalso reflect this development.
The Canadian film The Brutalista 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 Conclavenominated in six categories.
“Crowded Best Actress Category”
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 which also includes Timothée Chalamet, for his remarkable incarnation of Bob Dylan in A complete stranger.
But this year, it is for the actresses that the Golden Globes are most important, three days before voting for the Oscar nominations closes.
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 MariaNicole Kidman impresses as a powerful woman with troubled sexuality in Babygirland Fernanda Torres moves as a widow devoted to her children under the Brazilian dictatorship of the 70s, in I’m still here.
Without forgetting Kate Winslet, who lends her features to the war photographer Lee Milleror Pamela Anderson, surprising as a revue dancer overtaken by age in The Last Showgirl.
The Oscars, which do not separate dramas from comedies, will only select five actresses.
“The best actress category is so crowded that some people who surely would have won in another year won’t even be nominated,” observes Pete Hammond. “This is where the Golden Globes can really be useful.”
The 82nd edition of the Golden Globes begins at 5 p.m. in Beverly Hills. Comedian Nikki Glaser will be the first woman to present the ceremony solo.
