Mank leads Golden Globe nominations with 6 nods; Netflix dominates

After a yr the place the pandemic almost emptied film theaters, Netflix dominated nominations to the 78ths Golden Globe Awards on Wednesday, with David Fincher’s Mank main movie nominees with six nods and The Crown topping all tv sequence.
The Globes, delayed about two months because of the coronavirus, tried to muster a few of the awards’ regular buzz on Wednesday in a largely digital awards season bereft the sort of red-carpet glamour the Globes annual feast on. And maybe to account for the in any other case lack of it, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association heaped nominations on two lavish interval items of excessive royalty — each the Hollywood selection (Mank dramatizes the making of Citizen Kane) and the British type.
Mank, about Citizen Kane co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, landed nominations for finest movie, drama; finest actor for Gary Oldman; finest director for Fincher, finest supporting actress for Amanda Seyfried; finest rating; and finest screenplay for Jack Fincher, the director’s father who penned the script earlier than dying in 2003.
Netflix, which topped all studios on the Globes final yr, too, led with a commanding 42 nominations, with 22 coming in movie classes and 20 in tv. No different studio was shut.
The Crown additionally landed six nominations together with finest sequence, drama, and appearing nods for Olivia Colman and Josh O’Connor. The last season of Schitt’s Creek trailed with 5 nominations, whereas Netflix’s Ozark (4 nods) and The Queen’s Gambit (two nods) additionally added to the streamer’s totals.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Jeremy Strong in a scene from The Trial of the Chicago 7. (Photo: Niko Tavernise/Netflix by way of AP)
Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 — which can be a Netflix launch — got here in second with 5 nominations, together with nods for finest movie, drama; finest director and finest screenplay for Sorkin; supporting actor for Sacha Baron Cohen; and finest tune.

The different nominees for finest movie within the drama class have been Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland, Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman and Florian Zeller’s The Father.
Netflix doesn’t report field workplace figures and each Nomadland and The Father are but to open past a qualifying run in theaters. So the class’s whole field workplace — a historic low of about $265,000 — is because of “Promising Young Woman.”
A yr after fielding no feminine nominees for finest director — or finest characteristic movie nomination for any film directed by a lady — the HFPA nominated extra feminine filmmakers than it had earlier than.
Regina King (One Night in Miami), Zhao and Fennell have been nominated for finest director, alongside Sorkin and Fincher.
The nominees for finest musical or comedy movie are: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Hamilton,; Music; Palm Springs; The Prom.
The nominees for finest tv sequence, drama, are: The Crown; Lovecraft Country; The Mandalorian; Ozark; Ratched.
The nominees for finest tv sequence, musical or comedy, are: Schitt’s Creek; Ted Lasso; The Great; The Flight Attendant; Emily in Paris.
The nominees for finest movement image, international language, are: Another Round; La Llorona; The Life Ahead; Minari; Two of Us.
The nominees for lead actor in a drama movie are: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal; Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Anthony Hopkins, The Father; Gary Oldman, Mank; Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian.
Frances McDormand has been nominated for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama for Nomadland. (Photo: Searchlight Pictures by way of AP)
The nominees for actress in a drama movie are: Frances McDormand, Nomadland; Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman; Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman; Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday.
The nominees for lead actor in a comedy or musical movie are: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; James Corden, The Prom; Andy Samberg, Palm Springs; Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton; Dev Patel, The Personal History of David Copperfield.
The nominees for lead actress in a comedy or musical movie are: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit; Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma; Kate Hudson, Music; Rosamund Pike, I Care A Lot.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson hosted the nominations announcement Wednesday morning.
The Globes are usually the primary main present of Hollywood’s awards season, which ends with the crowning of one of the best image winner on the Oscars. They’ll retain that distinction, regardless of being delayed almost two months, after a surge in virus circumstances in latest months pushed the Grammy Awards to March.
More than maybe another award present, the Globes depend upon a cavalcade of stars — one thing that gained’t materialize when the awards are handed out Feb. 28 in a ceremony hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association stated Tuesday that the Globes — usually a bubbly dinner gathering with flowing drinks — will probably be held bi-coastally for the primary time. Fey will host dwell from New York’s Rainbow Room and Poehler will host from the awards’ regular dwelling, the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. It’s anticipated that nominees will probably be seem from areas all over the world.

This yr’s Globes have been postponed almost two months due to the pandemic and to regulate to the delayed Oscars. Those are set for April 25. Last yr’s Golden Globes culminated in awards for 1917 and Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. The telecast, hosted by Ricky Gervais, couldn’t buck the general scores pattern for awards exhibits, drawing a mean of 18.3 million viewers, down 2% from the earlier yr.