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The 81st Golden Globe awards, returning after two years, saw a few predictables make its way to its categories. Nobody is surprised that HBO’s Succession, arguably its biggest show after Game of Thrones which brought the obsession with ‘monoculture’ back, is a part of several categories — the show, and its cast, are brilliant. Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, a French film, understandably garnered several nods as well. So thrilled was our team with this film that one thought “its script deserves its own church”, and the other, only half-jokingly, remarked that it's a once in a lifetime movie.
Here is the list of nominations of this year’s Golden Globes. We have highlighted our favourites from each category in bold, and as a bonus, also peppered this list with our critical observances, biases and, infrequently, our gushing. We had initially published this list a day before the awards to detail the categories, but we have updated this to include the winners in every category.
Oppenheimer (Amazon Prime Video)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+)
Maestro (Netflix)
Past Lives (Lionsgate Play)
The Zone of Interest
Anatomy of a Fall
From the bottom of our heart: Anatomy of a Fall is a film that justifies every second of its runtime, with acting performances that will give you actual chills. In the words of Harry Styles, this is a movie that “feels like a movie”. In the very best way.
THE WINNER: Oppenheimer
Barbie (JioCinema)
Poor Things
American Fiction
The Holdovers
May December
Air (Amazon Prime Video)
FC note: Emma Stone is brilliant in the avatar of a woman-child in Poor Things. There are those who have rendered Poor Things’ depiction of sexual agency as questionable in some territories, it is nonetheless one of the most potent portrayals of female sexuality in the last few years.
THE WINNER: Poor Things
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental (Disney+Hotstar)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (JioCinema)
Wish (Disney+Hotstar)
Our bias: Makoto Shinkai’s galaxy-brained film with flamingo-pink skies, and a young girl navigating the length and breadth of earthquake-ravaged Japan is arguably his best film.
THE WINNER: The Boy and the Heron
Barbie (JioCinema)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney+Hotstar)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Amazon Prime Video)
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Amazon Prime Video)
Oppenheimer (Amazon Prime Video)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (JioCinema)
Goes without saying: Barbie boasts a worldwide collection of over $1.44 billion, we fail to imagine how another film could possibly beat it in this category.
THE WINNER: Barbie
Anatomy of a Fall — France
Fallen Leaves — Finland
Io Capitano — Italy
Past Lives — United States
Society of the Snow — Spain
The Zone of Interest — United Kingdom
From the bottom of our heart: While not available online at the moment, we must insist you keep Fallen Leaves on your radar. The film is a gentle, and a funny reminder that love can be as simple as we need it to be.
THE WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall
Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Annette Bening — Nyad
Greta Lee — Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny — Priscilla
Honourable mention: Cailee Spaeny is a revelation as Priscilla, lacing her performance with a quiet poise and maturity. We look forward to what she does next.
THE WINNER: Lily Gladstone
Bradley Cooper — Maestro
Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer
Leonardo DiCaprio — Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo — Rustin
Andrew Scott — All of Us Strangers
Barry Keoghan — Saltburn
Honourable mention: Barry Keoghan in Saltburn is absolutely unhinged in his portrait of a man obsessed. Good luck getting The Bathtub Scene out of your head anytime soon.
THE WINNER: Cillian Murphy
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence – No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman – May December
Alma Pöysti – Fallen Leaves
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things
THE WINNER: Emma Stone
Nicolas Cage — Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet — Wonka
Matt Damon — Air
Paul Giamatti — The Holdovers
Joaquin Phoenix — Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright — American Fiction
Honourable mention: Casting Nicolas Cage as a professor who unwittingly gets catapulted into fame for a bizarre reason, and is then terrifyingly brought down with the same flick of randomness, was a masterstroke.
THE WINNER: Paul Giamatti
Emily Blunt — Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple
Jodie Foster — Nyad
Julianne Moore — May December
Rosamund Pike — Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers
THE WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Willem Dafoe — Poor Things
Robert DeNiro — Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. — Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling — Barbie
Charles Melton — May December
Mark Ruffalo — Poor Things
FC note: Please accommodate our clear enthusiasm for this category.
THE WINNER: Robert Downey Jr.
Bradley Cooper — Maestro
Greta Gerwig — Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things
Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song — Past Lives
THE WINNER: Christopher Nolan
Barbie — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Poor Things — Tony McNamara
Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan
Killers of the Flower Moon — Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
Past Lives — Celine Song
Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
THE WINNER: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix — Poor Things
Robbie Robertson — Killers of the Flower Moon
Mica Levi — The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Joe Hisaishi — The Boy and the Heron
THE WINNER: Ludwig Göransson
Barbie — What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish and Finneas
Barbie — Dance the Night by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
She Came to Me — Addicted to Romance by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
The Super Mario Bros. Movie — Peaches by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, and John Spiker
Barbie — I’m Just Ken by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
Rustin — Road to Freedom by Lenny Kravitz
Take aside a moment: To acknowledge that Ryan Gosling in ‘I’m Just Ken’ is “sublime!”
THE WINNER: Barbie — What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish and Finneas
1923 (JioCinema)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
The Last of Us (JioCinema)
The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Succession (JioCinema)
THE WINNER: Succession
The Bear (Disney+Hotstar)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
Abbott Elementary (Disney+Hotstar)
Jury Duty (Amazon Prime Video)
Only Murders in the Building (Disney+Hotstar)
Barry (Jio Cinema)
THE WINNER: The Bear
Beef (Netflix)
Lessons in Chemistry (Apple TV+)
Daisy Jones & the Six (Amazon Prime Video)
All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)
Fellow Travelers
Fargo
THE WINNER: Beef
Helen Mirren — 1923
Bella Ramsey — The Last of Us
Keri Russell — The Diplomat
Sarah Snook — Succession
Imelda Staunton — The Crown
Emma Stone — The Curse
THE WINNER: Sarah Snook
Pedro Pascal — The Last of Us
Kieran Culkin — Succession
Jeremy Strong — Succession
Brian Cox — Succession
Gary Oldman — Slow Horses
Dominic West — The Crown
THE WINNER: Kieran Culkin
Ayo Edebiri — The Bear
Natasha Lyonne — Poker Face
Quinta Brunson — Abbott Elementary
Rachel Brosnahan — The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Selena Gomez — Only Murders in the Building
Elle Fanning – The Great
THE WINNER: Ayo Edebiri
Bill Hader — Barry
Steve Martin — Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short — Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel — Shrinking
Jason Sudeikis — Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White — The Bear
If we had to pick one: Yes, chef. Enough said.
The one they missed: Harrison Ford in Shrinking is exponentially funnier than Jason Segel. For one, among many reasons, he insistently uses the term “rawdog” incorrectly.
THE WINNER: Jeremy Allen White
Riley Keough — Daisy Jones & the Six
Brie Larson — Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen — Love and Death
Juno Temple — Fargo
Rachel Weisz — Dead Ringers
Ali Wong — Beef
From the bottom of our heart: Rachel Weisz’s performances as the questionable twins Elliot Mantle and Beverly Mantle are simply too delicious for us to not root for her.
THE WINNER: Ali Wong
Matt Bomer — Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin — Daisy Jones & the Six
Jon Hamm — Fargo
Woody Harrelson — White House Plumbers
David Oyelowo — Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Steven Yeun — Beef
THE WINNER: Steven Yeun
Elizabeth Debicki — The Crown
Abby Elliott — The Bear
Christina Ricci — Yellowjackets
J. Smith-Cameron — Succession
Meryl Streep — Only Murders in the Building
Hannah Waddingham — Ted Lasso
From the bottom of our (very biased) heart: If Meryl Streep doesn’t win in this category, we will revolt. No joke. This is a threat.
THE WINNER: Elizabeth Debicki
Billy Crudup — The Morning Show
Matthew Macfadyen — Succession
James Marsden — Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach — The Bear
Alan Ruck — Succession
Alexander Skarsgård — Succession
THE WINNER: Matthew Macfadyen
Ricky Gervais — Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
Trevor Noah — Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Chris Rock — Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Amy Schumer — Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact
Sarah Silverman — Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes — Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer
The one they missed: We don’t know why Baby J by John Mulaney wasn’t nominated in this category. It was one of the most visceral and morbidly funny stand-up experiences of the last year.
THE WINNER: Ricky Gervais: Armageddon