‘Vice’ tops Globes nominations
Five nods each for ‘A Star is Born’ and ‘Green Book’
Homecoming, Chuck Lorre’s acting coach series The Kominsky Method and last year’s champ, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Leading all small-screen nominees with four nods was The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the FX anthology series about the Italian fashion designer’s murder.
For the first time, the Globes nominated three films directed by African-American filmmakers for best picture, drama: Ryan Coogler’s superhero sensation Black Panther, Spike Lee’s urgent white nationalist drama BlacKkKlansman and Barry Jenkins’ lyrical James Baldwin adaption If Beale Street Could Talk. The other nominees are A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury biopic.
All earned nods in other categories, too, including Rami Malek as Mercury and the leading turn by John David Washington in BlacKkKlansman. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (as both actor and director) were nominated for the song Shallow.
Up for best picture comedy alongside Vice are Yorgos Lanthimos’ wild palace power struggle The Favourite, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, the upcoming Disney sequel Mary Poppins Returns and the rom-com Crazy Rich Asians.
Nominees such as Constance Wu( Crazy Rich Asians), Regina King (‘Beale Street’), Lin-Manuel Miranda (‘Mary Poppins Returns’), Ali and Washington insured a diverse field of nominees.
Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows was shut out entirely. Also left out was Ethan Hawke’s performance as an anguished pastor in First Reformed and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish stunner Cold War.
Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, who’s a nominee for best actress in a TV series drama, will host the January 6 ceremony.