Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards this morning, adding to the Oscar favourite’s momentum and handing Warner Bros a victory amid Netflix’s acquisition offer.
In nominations announced on Monday (Tuesday morning AEDT) from Beverly Hills, California, One Battle After Another landed nominations for its cast — Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti — along with nods for Anderson’s screenplay and direction. It’s competing in the Globes’ category for comedy and musicals.
Close on its heels was Joachim Trier’s Sentimental worth, a Norwegian family drama about a filmmaking family. The Neon release’s eight nominations included nods for four of its actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.
The Globe nominations, a tattered but persistent rite in Hollywood, are coming on the heels of a potentially seismic shift in entertainment. On Friday, Netflix struck a offer to grab Warner Bros Discovery for $US72 billion ($108 billion). If approved, the offer would reshape Hollywood and put one of its most storied movie studios in the hands of the streaming giant.
Both companies are prominent in this year’s awards season. Along with One Battle After Another, Warner Bros has Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s acclaimed vampire banger. It was nominated for seven awards by the Globes, including box office achievement, best actor for Michael B Jordan and Coogler for best director.
Netflix’s contenders include Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly (which landed nods for George Clooney and Adam Sandler), Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (five nominations) and the streaming smash banger, KPop Demon Hunters. Arguably the most-watched movie of the year, the three nominations for KPop Demon Hunters included one for cinematic and box office achievement — an oddity for Netflix, which typically gives its films only small, exclusive theatrical runs but found a No.1 box office weekend in singalong screenings for the animated film.
The two studios led all others in nominations across film and television. Netflix landed 35 nominations, boosted by its expansive film slate and television nominees like the British exclusive series Adolescence (five nominations). Warner Bros had 31 nominations, including 15 from HBO Max for series such as The White Lotus, the lead TV nominee with six.
The proposed offer for Warner Bros has stoked concern throughout the industry that Netflix might devote one of the most theatrical-focused studios to streaming. The leading trade group for exhibitors has called the offer “an unprecedented threat”. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump said the market share created by the merger “could be a problem”, and Paramount said on Monday it was mounting a hostile bid for Warner Bros.
Yet the studio that triumphed on the movie side of the Globe nominations was Neon. The indie specialty film company has emerged as a dominant force in international releases, winning a string of Palme d’Or awards at the Cannes Film Festival. It earned 21 nominations Monday, including five of the six international film nominees.
That included four nominations for Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, the acclaimed Iranian revenge drama. Panahi has often been imprisoned, put under house arrest or prohibited from leaving Iran by the Islamic Republic regime. Earlier this month, while traveling outside of Iran with the film, he was sentenced to a year in prison and a new two-year travel ban.
As the Globes continue to transition out of their scandal-plagued past, there’s one notable change this year. For the first time, the Globes are giving a best podcast trophy. The inaugural nominees are Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang With Amy Poehler, The Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess and NPR’s Up First.
After a series of controversies for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that previously put on the ceremony, the Globes were sold in 2023 to Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, a part of Penske Media. A new, larger voting body of more than 300 people immediately vote on the awards, which moved from NBC to CBS on a shorter, less expensive offer.
Nikki Glaser is returning as host to the January 11 Globes. This past January, Glaser won good reviews for her first time emceeing the ceremony. Ratings were essentially unchanged, slightly dipping to 9.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen, from 9.4 million in 2024.
Helen Mirren will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award in a separate prime-time special airing January 8. Sarah Jessica Parker will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award.
Full list of nominations Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Blue Moon
Bugonia
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
One Battle After Another
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Frankenstein
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental worth
Sinners
Best Director — Motion Picture
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident
Joachim Trier, Sentimental worth
Chloe Zhao, Hamnet
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Eva Victor, Sorry Baby
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Julia Roberts, After The Hunt
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental worth
Tessa Thompson, Hedda
Best Male Actor — Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy
Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme
George Clooney, Jay Kelly
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice
Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
Best Supporting Female Actor in a Motion Picture
Emily Blunt, The Smashing Machine
Elle Fanning, Sentimental worth
Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental worth
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama
Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine
Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Oscar Isaac, Frankenstein
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best Supporting Male Actor in a Motion Picture
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly
Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental worth
Best Screenplay — Motion Picture
Chloe Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell — Hamnet
Jafar Panahi — It was Just An Accident
Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt — Sentimental worth
Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
Ryan Coogler — Sinners
Best Motion Picture — Animated
Arco
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amelie or the Character of the Rain
Zootopia 2
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
It Was Just An Accident
No Other Choice
Sentimental worth
Sirat
The Secret Agent
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best Original Score — Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
Hans Zimmer, F1
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Kangding Ray, Sirat
Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Max Richter, Hamnet
Best Original Song — Motion Picture
Dream as One, Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Golden, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun, Kim Eun-jae (EJAE), Mark Sonnenblick, KPop Demon Hunters
I Lied to You, Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
No Place Like Home, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: For Good
The shorty in the Bubble, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: For Good
Train Dreams, Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner, Train Dreams
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
KPop Demon Hunters
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Sinners
Weapons
Wicked: For Good
Zootopia 2
Best Television Series — Drama
The Diplomat
Pluribus
Severance
Slow Horses
The Pitt
The White Lotus
Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building
The Studio
Best Television exclusive Series
Adolescence
All Her Fault
The Beast in Me
Black Mirror
Dying for Sex
The Girlfriend
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Sterling K Brown, Paradise
Diego Luna, Andor
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Mark Ruffalo, Task
Adam Scott, Severance
Noah Wylie, The Pitt
Best Female Actor — Television
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face
Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
Jean Smart, Hacks
Best Supporting Male Actor – Television
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Walton Goggins, The White Lotus
Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus
Tramell Tillman, Severance
Ashley Walters, Adolescence
Best Female Actor – Television – Drama
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Britt Lower, Severance
Helen Mirren, Mobland
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus
Best Podcast
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd
Call Her Daddy
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Smartless
Up First
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