‘Emilia Perez’ Tops Golden Globes Nominations

As the Oscars race rages, Jacques Audiard’s surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez” ascended to a lead with 10 nominations on Monday.

The supporting cast includes Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, and transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who also serves as the title character.

The Golden Globes, which are widely considered the start of the Academy Awards, will feature all three of them and will award prizes to them on January 5.

“The Brutalist”, starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States, came in second with seven nominations, followed by papal drama “Conclave” with six nods.

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Smash hit “Wicked”, the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earned four nominations, including for pop sensation Ariana Grande as the bubbly pink-clad Glinda and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo as the green-skinned Elphaba.

The almost entirely Spanish-language film “Emilia Perez” kicked off its Hollywood-related renown at Cannes, where it won the Jury Prize.

Audiard, who is “terrified” about the upcoming Oscars campaign for his movie, which will be available on Netflix once it hits theaters, told AFP in October.

“Mass success is something very unsettling — it’s not real life”, said the French director, who earned a nomination in his category.

Other nods for “Emilia Perez” include two entries for best original song, best score, best non-English language film, best screenplay, and best comedy or musical film.

It will compete for top comedy-musical honors with “Wicked”, Cannes darling “Anora”, tennis love-triangle film “Challengers”, Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain”, and body horror film “The Substance” starring Demi Moore.

Ahead of the nominations, Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis suggested organizers should save the last three categories of the night for comedy-musical honors, especially lead actress, which he called “the bloodbath category”.

Erivo, Gascon and “Anora” star Mikey Madison will battle for the lead actress prize with perennial awards favorite Amy Adams (“Nightbitch”), Moore and “Challengers” star Zendaya.

The “Great barometer”

The Golden Globes expand the list of actors who will walk the red carpet by awarding separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals.

On the drama side, “The Brutalist” is something of a comeback for Brody, who won his Oscar in 2003 for “The Pianist”, another Holocaust-related film.

“Conclave” is a fictionalized account of high-stakes Holy See horse-trading, depicting how the death of a pope sends the church’s various factions into battle for its future. It is based on Robert Harris’ novel.

“Conclave” star Ralph Fiennes earned a nomination, as did director Edward Berger.

“The Brutalist” and “Conclave” will compete for best drama honors with Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown”, “Dune: Part Two”, “Nickel Boys”, and “September 5”, a look at the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis from the media perspective.

Following a Los Angeles Times report in 2021 that revealed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the awards’ voting body, lacked any Black members, The Globes are in the second year of a revamp.

Now under new ownership, and with the HFPA disbanded, organizers are hoping to capitalize on a ratings bump registered last January, and perhaps even burnish the gala’s status as a predictor of Oscars success.

Before the Academy Award nominations are due on January 17 — shortly after the Globes gala, Davis claims that the Globes “are a really great barometer” to gauge the popularity of the international voters.

The Academy’s international voting members, whose numbers are increasing, have “remarkable impact on nominations and winners in the last few years,” Davis said.

The Globes also honor the best in television, with comedy “The Bear” earning five nominations, and historical epic “Shogun” and comedy “Only Murders in the Building” tied at four.

The Beverly Hills gala on January 5 will be hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser.

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