Golden Globe Nominations: 2024


FILM:

Motion picture (drama)

  • “The Brutalist”
  • “A Complete Unknown”
  • “Conclave”
  • “Dune: Part Two”
  • “Nickel Boys”
  • “September 5”

Motion picture (comedy or musical)

  • “Anora”
  • “Challengers”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “A Real Pain”
  • “The Substance”
  • “Wicked”

Actor (drama)

  • Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
  • Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
  • Daniel Craig, “Queer”
  • Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
  • Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
  • Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

Actor (comedy or musical)

  • Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”
  • Hugh Grant, “Heretic”
  • Gabriel LaBelle, “Saturday Night”
  • Jesse Plemons, “Kinds of Kindness”
  • Glen Powell, “Hit Man”
  • Sebastian Stan, “A Different Man”

Actress (drama)

  • Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl”
  • Angelina Jolie, “Maria”
  • Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”
  • Tilda Swinton, “The Room Next Door”
  • Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
  • Kate Winslet, “Lee”

Actress (comedy or musical)

  • Amy Adams, “Nightbitch”
  • Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
  • Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Perez”
  • Mikey Madison, “Anora”
  • Demi Moore, “The Substance”
  • Zendaya, “Challengers”

Supporting actor

  • Yura Borisov, “Anora”
  • Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
  • Edward Norton “A Complete Unknown”
  • Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
  • Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
  • Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II”

Supporting actress

  • Selena Gomez, “Emilia Perez”
  • Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
  • Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
  • Margaret Qualley, “The Substance”
  • Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
  • Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Perez”

Director

  • Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Perez”
  • Sean Baker, “Anora”
  • Edward Berger, “Conclave”
  • Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
  • Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
  • Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light”

Screenplay

  • Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
  • Sean Baker, “Anora”  
  • Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, “The Brutalist”
  • Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”
  • Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
  • Peter Straughan, “Conclave”

Score

  • Volker Bertelmann, “Conclave”
  • Daniel Blumberg, “The Brutalist”
  • Kris Bowers, “The Wild Robot””
  • Clément Ducol, Camille, “Emilia Pérez”
  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, “Challengers”
  • Hans Zimmer, “Dune: Part Two”

Song

  • “Beautiful That Way” from “The Last Showgirl”
  • “Compress/Repress” from “Challengers”
  • “El Mal” from Emilia Perez”
  • “Forbidden Road” from “Better Man”
  • “Kiss the Sky” from “The Wild Robot”
  • “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Perez”

Animated feature

  • “Flow”
  • “Inside Out 2”
  • “Memoir of a Snail”
  • “Moana 2”
  • “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
  • “The Wild Robot”

Non-English language film

  • “All We Imagine as Light”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “The Girl with the Needle”
  • “I’m Still Here”
  • “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
  • “Vermiglio”

Cinematic box office achievement

  • “Alien: Romulus”
  • “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
  • “Deadpool & Wolverine”
  • “Gladiator II”
  • “Inside Out 2”
  • “Twisters”
  • “Wicked”
  • “The Wild Robot”

TELEVISION:

TV series (drama)

  • “The Day of the Jackal”
  • “The Diplomat”
  • “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”
  • “Shogun”
  • “Slow Horses”
  • “Squid Game”

TV series (comedy or musical)

  • “Abbott Elementary”
  • “The Bear”
  • “The Gentlemen”
  • “Hacks”
  • “Nobody Wants This”
  • “Only Murders in the Building”

TV series (limited or TV movie)

  • “Baby Reindeer”
  • “Disclaimer”
  • “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
  • “The Penguin”
  • “Ripley”
  • “True Detective: Night Country”

TV actor (drama)

  • Donald Glover, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”
  • Jake Gyllenhaal, “Presumed Innocent”
  • Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
  • Eddie Redmayne, “The Day of the Jackal”
  • Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shōgun”
  • Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman”

TV actor (comedy)

  • Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”
  • Ted Danson, “A Man on the Inside”
  • Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”
  • Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
  • Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
  • Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

TV actor (limited series or TV movie)

  • Colin Farrell, “The Penguin”
  • Richard Gadd, “Baby Reindeer”
  • Kevin Kline, “Disclaimer”
  • Cooper Koch, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
  • Ewan McGregor, “A Gentleman in Moscow”
  • Andrew Scott, “Ripley”

TV actress (drama)

  • Kathy Bates, “Matlock”
  • Emma D’Arcy, “House of the Dragon”
  • Maya Erskine, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”
  • Keira Knightley, “Black Doves”
  • Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
  • Anna Sawai, “Shōgun”

TV actress (comedy)

  • Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”
  • Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
  • Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
  • Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”
  • Kathryn Hahn, ‘”Agatha All Along”
  • Jean Smart, “Hacks”

TV actress (limited series or TV movie)

  • Cate Blanchett, “Disclaimer”
  • Jodie Foster, “True Detective: Night Country”
  • Cristin Milioti, “The Penguin”
  • Sofía Vergara, “Griselda”
  • Naomi Watts, “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”
  • Kate Winslet, “The Regime”

Supporting actor

  • Tadanobu Asano, “Shōgun”
  • Javier Bardem, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”
  • Harrison Ford, “Shrinking”
  • Jack Lowden, “Slow Horses,”
  • Diego Luna, “La Máquina”
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Bear”

Supporting actress

  • Liza Colón-Zayas, “The Bear”
  • Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”
  • Dakota Fanning, “Ripley”
  • Jessica Gunning, “Baby Reindeer”
  • Allison Janney, “The Diplomat”
  • Kali Reis, “True Detective: Night Country”

Stand-up comedy performance

  • Jamie Foxx, “What Had Happened Was”
  • Nikki Glaser, “Someday You’ll Die”
  • Seth Meyers, “Dad Man Walking”
  • Adam Sandler, “Love You”
  • Ali Wong, “Single Lady”
  • Ramy Youssef, “More Feelings”

Movie Review: The Fire Inside


In the history of movie making, many of the best screenplays are about true stories, even better are true sports stories. The new movie “The Fire Inside” is one of those great true stories about an athlete, this time an amateur woman boxer, Claressa Shields played by Ryan Destiny, who is the first boxer in history, man or woman to win the gold medal in two consecutive Olympics: 2012 London and 2016 Rio.

Claressa’s story is about being poor in the worst living conditions in Flint Michigan, where every day was a struggle to stay alive and try and find the strength to make it to another day. This story starts in 2006 when Claressa was 11 years old and would wander over to a local boxing gym where a boxing trainer Jason Crutchfield, played by Brian Tyree Henry would train young boys how to box. At first, Jason refused to train a girl, but through perseverance, Claressa was eventually trained by Crutchfield who soon found out that this young girl had a powerful “fire inside”.

Despite her extremely dysfunctional home life, Claressa’s impressive work ethic and determination, are portrayed very well in this story, all the way through a series of boxing tournaments that led Claressa to China and then to the London Olympics in 2012 – an almost impossible feat for a 17-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in Flint Michigan.

Once the Olympic gold medal is obtained, the real-life part of this story begins because of all of the endorsements that were expected to rescue Claressa from her life of squalor – none of them came through, despite the efforts of Claressa’s coach Jason Crutchfield to find her a deal. This was because marketing executives did not think that a woman fighting other women was good for selling products. This part of the story I thought was the best, reminding us that calling life “unfair” has never been a strong enough word.

The conclusion involved Clarissa moving to Denver to train with the Olympic team try try and win another Gold medal, supported financially by the U.S. Olympic team. This choice turned out to be the only option Clarissa had to generate an income from her Gold medal that at one point, she thought of selling to a Pawn Broker.

The actress who played Clarissa, Ryan Destiny, has a perfect movie star face, excellent acting ability, and did a great job in all of the boxing scenes. Brian Tyree Henry is also great in his role as a boxing trainer living in a very poor neighborhood trying to help kids.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this film are a very accurate 95% and receives my highest recommendation.

Netflix Movie Review: The Six Triple Eight


The new Netflix movie “The Six Triple Eight”, written and directed by Tyler Perry is a World War II story about 855 black women in a troop commissioned to sort and deliver 17 million pieces of delayed mail, including letters, and packages that were addressed to U.S. troops in Europe. A task vital to the morale of the troops fighting in the war.

This movie reminded me in so many ways of the great 2016 movie “Hidden Figures” about genius black women who faced bigotry and disrespect from the men and women at NASA, but despite this, saved the space program and the lives of several astronauts along the way. Movies like this are necessary to finally show respect to great human beings who were never recognized like they should have been. The expression goes, “Better late than never”, but like Hidden Figures, this movie will make many people angry that it took so long for the world to know about this amazing group of 855 women during World War II.

The Six Triple Eight (6888) is the name of the army troop of black women who were given an impossible task under disaster conditions while facing nothing but resistance from the entire higher ranks of the U.S. Army, who through their bigotry, actually wanted these women to fail. Within a large series of huge airplane hangers, the Army stored millions of letters and packages that were never sent. The women were housed in a heavily damaged building, with no heat for months, and despite impossible odds and lies from several members of the U.S. Army claiming they were not doing their job, they managed to complete the task in 90 days, even though they were given 6 months.

This film stars Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams, in one of her best acting roles. Washington is outstanding, especially in the scenes where she stands up to the outrageous disrespect she receives from her superior officers, with the main standout being General Halt, played by Dean Norris, who is most known for this portrayal of Hank Schrader the lead police officer in the “Breaking Bad” TV series.

I was also impressed with some of the early action scenes showing some battles of World War II, considering this is a lower-budget Netflix production.

A key quote from Major Adams in this film summarizes what these 855 women faced very well, “Because you are Negroes and women,” she tells them, “you do not have the luxury to be as good as the White soldiers. You have the burden to be better.” Another great quote is: “They did not send us because they thought we could do it, we are here because they are sure we cannot.” Considering the importance of this impossible task during World War II it is amazing to realize that the U.S. Army would employ so many black women to deliver so much mail while hoping they would fail.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this very good and significant World War II movie, is an absurdly low 50%, with a correct audience ranking of 82%. This time around, I agree with the audience ranking and consider this a must-see Netflix film.