Tale of two Ryans
Gosling and Reynolds land noms
It was a tale of two Ryans during Monday’s Golden Globe nominations announcement, with Canadians Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds both making the cut in the same category.
Gosling of London, Ont., got a nod for best performance by an actor in a motion picture — musical or comedy — for his starring role in La La Land. He plays a jazz musician alongside Emma Stone as a struggling actress in the dreamy film by Damien C hazelle.
La La Land got a leading seven nominations, followed by Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age tale Moonlight with six nods.
Reynolds, from Vancouver, was nominated for playing a crass superhero in the Marvel comedy Deadpool. He stars as a mercenary who goes through a rogue medical experiment that cures his cancer, but leaves him disfigured.
On Sunday, Reynolds won a Critics’ Choice Award for best actor in a comedy for his role in the Vancouver-shot film. He also received Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainer of the Year Award at the show, which he dedicated to Toronto’s SickKids Foundation and the MakeA-Wish Foundation.
In other Canadian-related Golden Globe news, aliens-have-landed drama Arrival, by Quebec director Denis Villeneuve, scored nods for star Amy Adams and composer Johann Johannsson. But Villeneuve himself was not honoured.
Regina-born Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany did not make the list. Montreal director Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World, Canada’s submission in the best foreign-language film category at the Oscars, did not get a nomination.