SNUBS AND VERY FEW SURPRISES

Marriage Story leads film race without front-runner among TV nods

Golden Globe nominations are basically what we expected

The biggest surprise from this year’s Golden Globe nominations is the lack of surprises. Netflix continued encroaching on awards season in both the movie and TV categories, earning 17 each, or 34 nominations across the board.

Netflix’s Marriage Story, a domestic drama starring Adam Driver

and Scarlett Johansson, earned six nominations. It was followed closely by Netflix’s other event movie, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which earned five nods, including two for best supporting actor for Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.

Tying The Irishman was Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, which delves into the Manson family murders. Todd Phillips’s controversial film Joker and Fernando Meirelles’s papal dramedy The Two Popes trailed with four nods each.

It’s an even tighter race on the TV side, with no clear front-runner. Three shows based on real life events — HBO’S Chernobyl, Netflix’s The Crown and Unbelievable — each earned four nominations. And the trend of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association seeming to prefer TV shows with recognizable stars continued, which might account for the critically dismissed The Morning Show, The Kominsky Method and the second season of Big Little Lies tying the critic-lauded Fleabag, Fosse/verdon, Succession and Barry with three nods each.

Ricky Gervais will host the 77th Golden Globe Awards Jan. 5 on NBC.

The Washington Post