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Hollywood’s A-list will assemble this weekend for the 83rd Golden Globes ceremony, a night that will reveal where this year’s Oscars race is headed.
Stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Michael B Jordan and Ariana Grande are among those nominated for film awards while small screen nominees include Helen Mirren, Jenna Ortega, Jude Law and Glen Powell.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic comedy thriller One Battle After Another leads with nine nominations and is already looking like this season’s frontrunner. It has been named best of the year by both New York and Los Angeles critics circles as well as the National Board of Review, the Gotham awards and at last week’s Critics Choice awards.
This week saw nominations announced for the Screen Actors Guild’s recently renamed Actor awards with it also leading the field with seven nods.
The film, which has an estimated budget of around $130m, tells the story of DiCaprio’s ageing revolutionary grappling with his past coming back to haunt him. In his five-star review, the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called it “exciting and baffling”.
“This is the best time I’ve had making a movie and I feel like it shows,” Anderson said on stage at the Critics Choice awards. “It’s just a testament to being with people that you love.”
Anderson has yet to win a Golden Globe or an Oscar for his previous work but is tipped to take home best director this Sunday.
But while DiCaprio has been lauded with praise for his role, securing his 15th Golden Globe nomination, he’s expected to miss out on a win. The award for best actor in a comedy or musical is likely to be taken home by Chalamet for his role in propulsive ping-pong caper Marty Supreme.
The 30-year-old actor, who has previously been nominated for roles including Wonka and Call Me By Your Name, has been front and centre for an all-out promotional blitz, aiding the film to $60m at the global box office in less than a month. It’s already beat out Civil War to become A24’s biggest film at the UK box office.
Chalamet has been blunt about his desire to win an Oscar in his recent press tour, calling this his best performance to date.
“People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the fuck,” he said in a Vogue interview. “But I’m the one actually doing it here.”
Some expected him to win last year for Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown but he was beaten by The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody. While the Oscars have often chosen not to reward younger male actors (the last best actor winner under 40 was Eddie Redmayne in 2014), the Golden Globes have not had the same problem. Recent winners who did not go on to pick up Oscars include Austin Butler, Sebastian Stan, Chadwick Boseman, Taron Egerton and Andrew Garfield.
Perhaps the only surer winner this weekend is Irish actor Jessie Buckley, primed for her first Golden Globe for her role in Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, produced by Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. She plays Shakespeare’s grieving wife in a largely fictionalised version of the events surrounding the creation of Hamlet and the death of their son. Paul Mescal stars as the playwright.
Buckley, 36, who originally rose to fame as a contestant on BBC reality competition show I’d Do Anything before breaking out in acclaimed music drama Wild Rose, became a mother after filming Hamnet.
“To lose your child is such an unimaginable possibility that I can’t fathom,” she said in a recent interview. “There’s nothing beyond how that must feel, and she went through all of it.”
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw praised Buckley’s performance as “unselfconsciously beguiling” in a five-star review.
Both Chalamet and Buckley won at last weekend’s Critic Choice awards. Last year’s Critics Choice lead acting winners Adren Brody and Demi Moore both also won Golden Globes.
Hamnet is also considered a strong possibility in the best drama film category but that could be won by Ryan Coogler’s genre-shifting blockbuster Sinners, which boasts seven nominations.
The $368m smash hit could see star Michael B Jordan become only the fourth Black actor to win in the category of best actor in a drama and Coogler become the first ever Black director to win.
“The biggest lesson for me, and it’s gonna sound cheesy, but the biggest lesson is just how much I love my job,” Coogler said to the Associated Press. “Professionally I’m married to cinema, and this movie felt like I was renewing my vows, if that makes sense.”
Both Sinners and One Battle After Another are Warner Bros films, the result of a bold auteur-led slate for the studio. As the year came to an end, news emerged that Netflix was in the running to take ownership. This season has seen some of the streamer’s bigger awards hopes, from Jay Kelly to A House of Dynamite, fail to register with voters.
The night will be hosted again by comedian Nikki Glaser who received praise for her turn last year. The often raucous standup, known for roasting celebrities, has already said that there is one star who she refused to ridicule.
“I’m trying out my monologue around LA, at the clubs here, and just even any joke about Julia Roberts, they are not there for,” she said in a CBS interview. “You cannot make fun of America’s sweetheart. So, whatever I end up saying about her, that is the most fine-tuned joke that I’ve worked on so hard, because it is very delicate.”
This year’s Oscar nominations will be revealed on 22 January. Last month it was announced that the awards will be aired on YouTube starting in 2029.
