Hollywood’s awards season heats up Sunday on the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez”—a few Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a lady—main the cost. Picture: JC Olivera/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Photos by way of AFP
Hollywood’s awards season heats up Sunday on the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez”—a few Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a lady—main the cost.
Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying movie earned 10 nominations, probably the most ever for a musical or comedy movie, together with for star transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who performs the title character, in addition to co-stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.
“Emilia Perez”—which is nearly solely in Spanish—is hoping to throw down the gauntlet within the race to the Academy Awards, which is able to happen in early March.
“The far and away favourite right here getting in has obtained to be ‘Emilia Perez’,” Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond instructed AFP.
“I feel it’s obtained the worldwide factor going for it, and it simply swept the European Movie Awards.”
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The Golden Globes provide separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals—widening the sector of stars who will stroll the pink carpet, and in addition providing extra choices for Academy voters set to quickly solid ballots for the Oscar nominations.
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“Emilia Perez” began its march towards Hollywood glory on the Cannes movie competition, the place it received the Jury Prize.
Different nods for the movie, which is streaming on Netflix after debuting in theaters, embody finest director, two entries for finest authentic track, finest rating, finest non-English language movie, finest screenplay, and finest comedy or musical movie.
It should compete for high musical-comedy honors with smash hit “Depraved,” Cannes darling “Anora,” tennis love-triangle movie “Challengers,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Actual Ache,” and physique horror movie “The Substance” starring Demi Moore.
“Depraved,” the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earned 4 nominations, together with for pop sensation Ariana Grande because the bubbly pink-clad Glinda and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo because the green-skinned Elphaba.
Hammond mentioned he believed “Depraved” could be at a “drawback” on the Globes, given its lack of nominations in key classes, however he favors Erivo to take residence the prize for finest lead actress.
She’s going to compete with Gascon, “Anora” star Mikey Madison, Amy Adams (“Nightbitch”), Moore and “Challengers” star Zendaya.
Hammond calls “The Substance” his darkish horse of the season, and says its message in regards to the perils of getting old in Hollywood might resonate with voters.
‘Brutalist’ vs ‘Conclave’
The Globes are in yr two of a revamp, following a Los Angeles Instances expose in 2021 that confirmed that the awards’ voting physique—the Hollywood International Press Affiliation—had no Black members.
Now underneath new possession, and with the HFPA disbanded, organizers are hoping to capitalize on a scores bump registered final January, and even perhaps burnish the gala’s standing as a predictor of Oscars success.
Hammond says the reorganization shines by way of with nominees like “The Brutalist,” starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the US.
The Globes are “undoubtedly extra worldwide. They’re extra open to totally different varieties of flicks,” he mentioned, citing “The Brutalist”— which earned seven nominations, behind “Emilia Perez”—for example.
It should do battle with papal drama “Conclave,” a fictionalized account of high-stakes Holy See horse-trading, depicting how the loss of life of a pope sends the Church’s numerous factions into battle for its future. It’s based mostly on a novel by Robert Harris.
“Conclave” star Ralph Fiennes earned one of many movie’s six nominations.
The 2 favorites will compete for the most effective drama prize with Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown,” sci-fi epic “Dune: Half Two,” “Nickel Boys” and “September 5,” a have a look at the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage disaster from the media perspective.
“All of that is taking place three days earlier than the Oscars ballots go reside,” Hammond mentioned.
“So this actually may very well be influential in a decent yr the place this stuff might go any which means.”
The Globes additionally honor the most effective in tv, with comedy “The Bear” incomes 5 nominations, and historic epic “Shogun” and comedy “Solely Murders within the Constructing” tied at 4.
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Comic Nikki Glaser will host Sunday’s gala in Beverly Hills.
