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Carrey, Oh, Vallée, James are among the Canadians to earn Golden Globe nominations
Jim Carrey, Sandra Oh, Stephan James and Jean-Marc Vallée were among the Canadian Golden Globe nominees announced Thursday, while Ryan Gosling ’s lack of a mention for First Man had many fans declaring the London, Ont., native was snubbed.
Oh got a nod for best actress in a TV drama series for Killing Eve, on which she’s also an executive producer.
The Korean-Canadian star plays an MI5 operative hunting down a female assassin on the BBC America series, which aired on Bravo in Canada.
Earlier this year Oh was nominated for an Emmy for lead actress in a drama series for the role, making her the first Asian woman to be nominated in that category. She didn’t win but made a big splash by bringing her parents to the show.
In an interview earlier this year, the former Grey’s Anatomy star said she enjoyed “delving deeply into a piece about female psychology.
“What is more interesting to me is seeing two human beings embroiled in a relationship that they can’t define or let go of,” Oh told The Canadian Press.
Oh’s competition for the Golden Globe includes Elisabeth Moss for The Handmaid’s Tale, which is shot in Toronto, as well as Caitriona Balfe for Outlander, Julia Roberts for Homecoming and Keri Russell for The Americans.
Toronto-born Carrey is up for best performance by an actor in a television series, musical or comedy for Kidding. The Showtime comedy-drama is set in Columbus, Ohio, and stars Carrey as a beloved children’s television host.
Carrey’s competition includes Michael Douglas for The Kominsky Method, Donald Glover for Atlanta, Bill Hader for Barry and Sacha Baron Cohen for Who Is America?
James, also from Toronto, made the cut for the Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming. He stars alongside Roberts as a soldier in a post-battlefield treatment centre in the noir psychological thriller, which is based on the podcast created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg.
Other actors nominated in that category include Jason Bateman with Ozark, Richard Madden for Bodyguard, Billy Porter for Pose, and Matthew Rhys for The Americans.
It’s been a big year for James, who grew up in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, with another major leading role in the widely acclaimed Barry Jenkins film If Beale Street Could Talk.
Meanwhile, Vallée’s production company Crazyrose was named in the nomination for best television limited series or movie for Sharp Objects.
Montreal-based Vallée also directed the HBO gothic mystery, which stars Amy Adams as an alcoholic reporter investigating the murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another in her Missouri hometown.
Sharp Objects is up against The Alienist, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Escape at Dannemora and A Very English Scandal.
Adams also scored a Golden Globe nod for her role in the series, as did co-star Patricia Clarkson, who plays her judgmental mother.
Vallée’s previous HBO series, Big Little Lies, won several Golden Globes, including best television limited series or movie.
Gosling was widely expected to be nominated for his role as astronaut Neil Armstrong in the biopic First Man, but his name was not called, prompting a stream of angry social media posts from upset fans.
Winners in 25 categories — 14 in film and 11 in television — are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.