Netflix dominates Brit-heavy Golden Globe nominations

The most nominated film and TV series at this year’s Covid-delayed Golden Globes are Netflix productions, with both the biopic Mank and drama series The Crown being up for six awards – including for their lead actors, respectively Gary Oldman and Olivia Colman.

Both Olivia Colman and Sir Anthony Hopkins are nominated for The Father

They’re among British stars who are nominated across every acting category in both film and TV.

In the Best Actor in a Drama category, Oldman is up against fellow Brits Riz Ahmed, for The Sound of Metal, and The Father’s Sir Anthony Hopkins, whose co-star, Colman is up for a second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. The three British actors will be fighting off competition from The Mauritanian’s Tahar Rahim and Chadwick Boseman, who’s received a posthumous nomination for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman

Promising Young Woman’s Carey Mulligan is up against Pieces of a Woman’s Vanessa Kirby for the Best Actress in a drama prize, along with Viola Davis, Frances McDormand and Andra Day.

British actors also take up three of the five nominations in the Best Comedy/Musical Actor category, with James Corden up for The Prom, Dev Patel in the running for The Personal History of David Copperfield and Sacha Baron Cohen being nominated for his Borat follow-up – one of two nominations for the comic star who’s also up for the Best Supporting Actor award for The Trial of the Chicago 7 – the second most nominated film – also by Netflix.

Anya Taylor Joy is nominated for both The Queen’s Gambit and Emma

The best comedy actress competition features two British stars; Rosamund Pike, for I Care A Lot, and Anya Taylor-Joy, for Emma – one of her two nominations; she’s also up for best actress in a Limited Series, for The Queen’s Gambit.

In that category, she’s up against Normal People‘s Daisy Edgar-Jones. Normal People itself has been nominated for the Best Limited Series, alongside Sir Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, which kicked off with Mangold. John Boyega has been nominated for his role in another episode. Sir Steve said he was thrilled that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had recognised the “Small Axe family.”

The HFPA has managed to fend of criticism of a lack of diversity; the British nominees alone include John Boyega, Riz Ahmed, Dev Patel and Daniel Kaluuya, while three of the five directing nominees are women, including the British actress Emerald Fennell, making her directorial debut with Promising Young Woman; she’s also nominated in the screenplay contest.

The changes to the qualifying period, because of uncertainty about the industry has resulted in the unusual prospect of Pixar having two films nominated against each other in the animated feature category; Onward and Soul.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is one of 2 nominations for Sacha Baron Cohen

But a clearer consequence of the pandemic is the growing dominance of the streaming giants, Netflix and Amazon, among the nominees. Being both producers and exhibitors gives them the advantage of being able to both produce content and get it to audiences. Netflix, in particular, has more than forty nominations across the categories, with the two most nominated films – Mank with six and The Trial of the Chicago 7 with five, as well as the most nominated TV series, The Crown with 6, as well as multiple nominations for other shows, including Ozark, The Queen’s Gambit and Unorthodox.

The major studios will be hoping to regain their foothold among the awards nominations, assuming the industry returns to some semblance of normality after the pandemic; but how long producers and exhibitors will have to wait – and whether there will be many exhibitors left – is still impossible to predict.

What’s easier to predict is that this year at least, the Oscar voters are likely to be selecting from a similar pool of titles, most of which – in a first for the Academy – will never have made it to big screens in many parts of the world.

The Golden Globe winners will be announced on the 28th February, at a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hotel, hosted by the comic actors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The LA-based foreign journalists from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will choose the winners from the following full list of nominations:

FILM

Best Motion Picture — Drama
“The Father”
“Mank”
“Nomadland”
“Promising Young Woman”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
“Hamilton”
“Music”
“Palm Springs”
“The Prom”

Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama
Chadwick Boseman, – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Riz Ahmed – “The Sound of Metal”
Anthony Hopkins – “The Father”
Gary Oldman – “Mank”
Tahar Rahim – “The Mauritanian”

Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama
Viola Davis – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Andra Day – “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Vanessa Kirby – “Pieces of a Woman”
Frances McDormand – “Nomadland”
Carey Mulligan – “Promising Young Woman

Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Maria Bakalova – “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Kate Hudson – “Music”
Michelle Pfeiffer – “French Exit”
Rosamund Pike – “I Care A Lot”
Anya Taylor-Joy – “Emma”

Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen – “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
James Corden – “The Prom”
Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Hamilton”
Dev Patel – “The Personal History of David Copperfield”
Andy Samberg – “Palm Springs”

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Sacha Baron Cohen – “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Daniel Kaluuya – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Jared Leto – “The Little Things”
Bill Murray – “On the Rocks”
Leslie Odom, Jr. – “One Night in Miami”

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Glenn Close – “Hillbilly Elegy”
Olivia Colman – “The Father”
Jodie Foster – “The Mauritanian”
Amanda Seyfried – “Mank”
Helena Zengel – “News of the World”

Best Director — Motion Picture
David Fincher – “Mank”
Regina King – “One Night in Miami”
Aaron Sorkin – “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Chloe Zhao – “Nomadland”
Emerald Fennell – “Promising Young Woman”

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture
Emerald Fennell – “Promising Young Woman”
Jack Fincher – “Mank”
Aaron Sorkin – “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton – “The Father”
Chloe Zhao – “Nomadland”

Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language
“Another Round,” Denmark
“La Llorona,” Guatamela/France
“The Life Ahead,” Italy
“Minari,” USA
“Two of Us,” France/USA

Best Original Song — Motion Picture
“Fight for You” – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
“Hear My Voice” – “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
“IO SI (Seen)” – “The Life Ahead”
“Speak Now” – “One Night in Miami”
“Tigers & Tweed” – “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”

Best Motion Picture — Animated
“The Croods: A New Age”
“Onward”
“Over the Moon”
“Soul”
“Wolfwalkers”

Best Original Score
“The Midnight Sky”
“Tenet”
“News of the World”
“Mank”

TELEVISION

Best Television Series Drama
“The Crown”
“Lovecraft Country”
“The Mandalorian”
“Ozark”
“Ratched”

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Normal People”
“The Queen’s Gambit”
“Small Axe”
“The Undoing”
“Unorthodox”

Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy
“Emily in Paris”
“The Flight Attendant”
“Schitt’s Creek”
“The Great”
“Ted Lasso”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy
Don Cheadle – “Black Monday”
Nicholas Hoult – “The Great”
Eugene Levy – “Schitt’s Creek”
Jason Sudekis – “Ted Lasso”
Ramy Youssef – “Ramy”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy
Lily Collins – “Emily in Paris”
Kaley Cuoco – “The Flight Attendant”
Elle Fanning – “The Great”
Jane Levy – “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”
Catherine O’Hara – “Schitt’s Creek”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama
Jason Bateman – “Ozark”
Josh O’Connor – “The Crown”
Bob Odenkirk – “Better Call Saul”
Al Pacino – “Hunters”
Matthew Rhys – “Perry Mason”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama
Olivia Colman – “The Crown”
Jodie Comer – “Killing Eve”
Emma Corrin – “The Crown”
Laura Linney – “Ozark”
Sarah Paulson – “Ratched”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Bryan Cranston – “Your Honor”
Jeff Daniels – “The Comey Rule”
Hugh Grant – “The Undoing”
Mark Ruffalo – “I Know This Much is True”
Ethan Hawke – “The Good Lord Bird”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Cate Blanchett – “Mrs. America”
Daisy Edgar-Jones – “Normal People”
Shira Haas – “Unorthodox”
Nicole Kidman – “The Undoing”
Anya Taylor-Joy – “The Queen’s Gambit”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Gillian Anderson – “The Crown”
Helena Bonham Carter – “The Crown”
Julia Garner – “Ozark”
Annie Murphy – “Schitt’s Creek”
Cynthia Nixon – “Ratched”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
John Boyega – “Small Axe”
Brendan Gleeson – “The Comey Rule”
Daniel Levy – “Schitt’s Creek”
Jim Parsons – “Hollywood”
Donald Sutherland – “The Undoing”