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‘La La Land’ Leads Golden Globe Nominations ‘La La Land,’ ‘Moonlight’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations
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LOS ANGELES — The candy-colored musical “La La Land,” about dreams and dreamers in this city of stars, twirled its way toward awards season juggernaut on Monday, taking seven Golden Globe nominations, including ones for best director, screenplay and lead actor and actress. LOS ANGELES — The candy-colored Lionsgate musical “La La Land,” about dreams and dreamers in this city of stars, twirled its way toward being an awards season juggernaut on Monday, taking seven Golden Globe nominations, including ones for best director, screenplay and lead actor and actress.
[See the complete list of Golden Globe nominees] But it was not a runaway. The lyrical “Moonlight,” about a young black man growing up in a poor Miami neighborhood, drew six nominations, including best drama, director and screenplay. “Manchester by the Sea,” focused on a New England plumber coping with horrific loss, was also nominated for best drama, receiving five nods total.
But voters also made sure to populate the Globes banquet with a wide range of honorees, throwing their weight behind racially diverse films like “Moonlight,” about a young man growing up in a poor Miami neighborhood; “Hidden Figures,” a look at unsung black heroines during the space race of the 1960s; and “Loving,” a gentle portrait of a real-life couple whose marriage ended anti-miscegenation laws. Joining those two films in the best drama category were “Lion,” an adoption tear-jerker set in India and the Weinstein Company’s lead Oscar hope; Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” based on the true story of the World War II hero Desmond T. Doss; and the CBS Films neo-western “Hell or High Water.”
Joining “Moonlight” as nominees for best drama were Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” the neo-western “Hell or High Water,” Amazon’s “Manchester by the Sea,” and the Weinstein Company’s “Lion.” Along with “La La Land,” best comedy or musical honorees went to the raunchy superhero film “Deadpool,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “Sing Street” and “20th Century Women,” a film that has not yet been released. Nominated alongside the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-led “La La Land” for best comedy or musical: the raunchy superhero blockbuster “Deadpool”; the Ireland-set musical “Sing Street”; the Meryl Streep vehicle “Florence Foster Jenkins”; and “20th Century Women,” a comedic period drama starring Annette Bening and set for release on Christmas Day.
The Globes, considered one of the fizzier stops on Hollywood’s annual awards circuit, are bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of mostly freelance journalists, only 85 of whom are active members. “As we speak, the entire ‘Deadpool’ team is engaged in a grotesque, early morning tickle-fight,” Ryan Reynolds, the star of that film, wrote on Twitter.
Given its proximity to the more prestigious Academy Awards, the Globes receives most of its heat from film. In truth, though, the Globes are not especially predictive of what will happen on Oscar night. Last year, “The Revenant” and “The Martian” were the two top Globes winners; both lost to “Spotlight” at the Oscars. The Globes are bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of mostly freelance journalists, only 85 of whom are active members. Long competitive with the more highbrow Oscars, the Globes often strive to make agenda-setting choices.
But the Globes ceremony has been increasingly important on the television front, largely because the press association has made a point in recent years of acknowledging fledgling broadcast series like “Jane the Virgin” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” This time around “This is Us,” a new hit NBC drama, may have filled that quotient. “This is Us” received nominations for best drama and for two of its actresses (Chrissy Metz and Mandy Moore). Nominating Mr. Gibson for best director fit that bill. Mr. Gibson became a Hollywood pariah in 2006 when he was charged with drunken driving and went on an obscenity-laced, anti-Semitic tirade. In 2011, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battering a former girlfriend. By putting his comeback film forward in three prominent categories — Andrew Garfield was also nominated for best actor in a drama — the Globes may force Oscar voters to similarly contend with Mr. Gibson.
The other series nominated for best drama were “The Crown,” a Netflix costume drama; HBO’s “Game of Thrones”; “Stranger Things,” also from Netflix; and HBO’s “Westworld,” a nihilistic series about a futuristic theme park populated by robots. Up for best comedy: “Atlanta,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Transparent,” “Veep” and “blackish.” “I’m very appreciative,” Mr. Gibson said in a statement. “This film was a labor of love for everyone involved and is also about a man who truly exemplified love and goodness.”
Among limited series, Globes voters were supportive of “The Night Manager,” a glossy international drama about a hotelier recruited to spy on an arms dealer. It received at least three nominations, including one for best limited series. The HBO crime drama “The Night Of” also did well, picking up nods for best limited series and for two actors. The press association filled out the directing category with Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”), Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”), Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”) and Tom Ford (“Nocturnal Animals”).
Streaming services like Amazon, which have been treated kindly by the press association in recent years, had a mixed morning. Amazon picked up numerous nods for series like “Mozart in the Jungle” and “Transparent,” although Judith Light was left out of the supporting actress category for her work on that exploration of gender and age. The inclusion of Mr. Ford may prove controversial because of Tom Ford-branded swag sent to voters by Focus Features, the studio behind his film. Because the combined value of the gift — bottles of cologne and perfume — exceeded the press organization’s $95 limit, the organization asked members to return part of it. To include him, Globe voters overlooked contenders like Martin Scorsese, whose “Silence” arrives in national release on Jan. 6.
NBC will broadcast the Globes ceremony live on Jan. 8. Jimmy Fallon will host. Mr. Scorsese may have diminished his prospects by delivering the film late. “Silence,” an epic drama about two priests who face violence in 17th-century Japan, was shut out on Monday. It was a bad morning for other Hollywood elder statesmen, with Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” uninvited to the banquet and Warren Beatty’s “Rules Don’t Apply” barely alive, receiving a lone nod for Lily Collins’s performance.
Also ignored was Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” a slave rebellion film once seen as a leading awards contender that collapsed at the box office after scrutiny of Mr. Parker’s past; he was accused of rape in 1999 and later acquitted.
The diversity on display during Hollywood’s self-congratulatory season — or the lack thereof — has been an incendiary topic in recent years. When Oscar voters put forward an all-white group of acting nominees at the most recent Academy Awards, there was a global outcry. The Globes are not necessarily predictive of the Oscars, but Monday’s nominations give reason to believe that a wide variety of faces will be honored.
In the acting categories, Globe voters noted performers like Viola Davis and Denzel Washington, both nominated for “Fences,” an adaptation of August Wilson’s play about race and family relations. Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali received attention for their roles in “Moonlight”; Dev Patel was nominated for “Lion”; and Ruth Negga made the best actress cut for “Loving,” a gentle portrait of a real-life couple whose marriage ended anti-miscegenation laws.
“Hidden Figures,” about unsung black heroines in the space race of the 1960s, received attention for Octavia Spencer’s acting and a score by Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch.
But the Globes are not especially prognostic of what will happen on Oscar night. Last year, “The Revenant” and “The Martian” were the Globes’ best picture winners; both lost to “Spotlight” at the Oscars.
The Globes ceremony has been increasingly important on the television front, largely for its acknowledgment of fledgling series like “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” This time around, “This Is Us,” a new NBC drama, may have filled that quota. “This Is Us” received nominations for best drama and for two actresses (Chrissy Metz and Mandy Moore).
In the best drama category, rookie shows made a near-sweep of the nominations, with “The Crown,” “Stranger Things” and “Westworld” filling out the category, along with the HBO stalwart “Game of Thrones.”
Several returning shows were snubbed. “Mr. Robot,” last year’s drama winner, received only acting nominations; Fox’s “Empire” got nothing. Showtime, which has had three wins in the best drama category in the past five years, fell to just one nomination: Liev Schreiber for best actor in a drama in “Ray Donovan.”
Streaming services have made inroads at the Globes, but on Monday the traditional players were back on top. HBO led the pack with 14 nominations (up from seven last year), and FX was in second place with nine. FX was propelled by “The People vs. O. J. Simpson,” which led all shows with five nominations, including best limited series.
In the best comedy category, the returning winner, Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” is up against Amazon’s “Transparent,” HBO’s “Veep” and two shows that feature primarily black casts: ABC’s “black-ish” and FX’s rookie hit “Atlanta.”
The press association has labored in recent years to shed its reputation for bizarre nominations that were interpreted more as efforts to populate the banquet with stars than honor the year’s best in film and television. Monday’s list contained no outright embarrassments, but there were still some head-scratchers, including a nod for Jonah Hill as best comedic actor in the critical dud “War Dogs.”
As previously announced, Ms. Streep, a 30-time Globes nominee and eight-time winner, will receive the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award.
Foreign film nominees were “Divines” (France), “Elle” (France), “Neruda” (Chile), “The Salesman” (Iran and France) and “Toni Erdmann” (Germany).
Among film companies, Lionsgate was the runaway winner, with its various labels and partnerships resulting in 17 nominations. A24 was second, with nine, while Paramount and Universal each had eight.
Jimmy Fallon is to host the 74th Golden Globes in all of his goofy glory, taking the reins from the acerbic British comedian Ricky Gervais. Mr. Fallon is under pressure to lift ratings. The most recent Globes telecast attracted about 18.5 million viewers, compared with 19.3 million the previous year, according to Nielsen. The Globes are to be broadcast live by NBC on Jan. 8.