Golden Globes kick off with ‘One Battle’ amongst favorites

Host Nikki Glaser kicked off the night with jokes on wide-ranging subjects, together with the discharge of redacted US authorities information about convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“The Golden Globe for finest modifying goes to the Justice Division,” she mentioned.

“There are such a lot of A-listers, and by A-listers, I do imply people who find themselves on a listing that has been closely redacted,” Glaser added, referring to Epstein’s many movie star pals.

The lavish Globes ceremony is a key stepping level in Hollywood’s awards season, which culminates in March with the Oscars, and attracts a glamorous A-list crowd to a Beverly Hills ballroom annually.

Main the night’s frontrunners is the politically charged “One Battle After One other,” which is anticipated to transform lots of its 9 Globe nominations into wins.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s screwball thriller, which facilities on an growing older revolutionary and his teenage daughter , is the recent favourite for finest comedy/musical movie.

A rollicking journey that includes violent leftist radicals, immigration raids and white supremacists, the movie has linked with audiences and critics at a time when the US is deeply polarized.

DiCaprio will vie for finest actor on the Globes with Timothee Chalamet, who stars in “Marty Supreme” as an bold Nineteen Fifties desk tennis participant.

Teyana Taylor, who performs an unapologetically daring leftist revolutionary, picked up the primary prize of the night time for finest supporting actress, maybe signaling a giant night for “One Battle.”

– ‘Sinners’ versus ‘Hamnet’ –

The Globes provide separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals widening the sphere of stars in attendance.

“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s interval horror movie concerning the segregated South of the Nineteen Thirties, is anticipated to be the hardest competitors for “One Battle” on the Oscars.

However on the Globes, they’re in separate classes.

“Sinners” stunned moviegoers with its eclectic mixture of vampires, politics, race relations and blues music.

It’s the frontrunner for the very best drama movie Globe, in opposition to rival “Hamnet,” which stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as his grief-stricken spouse, as the 2 deal with the dying of their younger son.

Buckley is the favourite for finest drama actress honors.

“Sentimental Worth,” the Norwegian household dramedy starring Stellan Skarsgard, earned a robust eight nominations and can also be within the working.

Skarsgard took residence the award for finest supporting actor.

– ‘BE GOOD’ –

The Golden Globes went by way of a disaster interval, following a Los Angeles Occasions expose in 2021 that confirmed that the awards’ voting physique the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation had no Black members.

Now below new possession, and with the HFPA disbanded, a wider web of abroad critics has been introduced in to select the winners.

One of many worldwide motion pictures they could favor is Brazilian thriller “The Secret Agent,” whose lead actor Wagner Moura is a favourite to win finest drama actor honors.

“The Secret Agent” and “Sentimental Worth” will vie for the Globe for finest non-English language movie with “It Was Simply An Accident” from Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi.

The Globes additionally honor the very best in tv, with HBO’s black comedy anthology “The White Lotus,” sci-fi workplace thriller “Severance” and searing teen homicide saga “Adolescence” main the contenders.

A number of celebrities together with Mark Ruffalo, Natasha Lyonne and Wanda Sykes walked the crimson carpet sporting pins with the message “BE GOOD.”

The badges are a part of a tribute to Renee Good, the US lady whose deadly capturing by a federal agent has sparked renewed protests in opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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