Golden Globe noms led by 'Banshees,' 'Everything Everywhere' - The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — After ungraded and boycott plunged the Hollywood Foreign Press Association into disarray and knocked its yearly grant amusement disconnected television for a year, the Golden Globes geared up Monday for its instrumentality by showering nominations connected the achromatic drama “The Banshees of Inisherin” and the multiverse mash-up “Everything Everywhere each astatine Once.”

Nominations were work by Mayan Lopez and Selenis Leyva connected NBC’s “Today” greeting show.

The nominees for champion film, drama, are: “The Fabelmans,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis,” “Tár” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.”

The nominees for champion film, drama oregon musical, are: “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All astatine Once,” “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” “Babylon” and “Triangle of Sadness.”

Martin McDonagh’s feuding friends communicative “The Banshees of Inisherin” led each films with 8 nominations, including nods for actors Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s existential enactment drama “Everything Everywhere each astatine Once” came successful 2nd with six nominations, including nods for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Among the nominees for champion histrion successful a play is Brendan Fraser. Fraser has said helium won’t attend the Globes aft helium said helium was groped successful 2003 by Philip Berk, a erstwhile HFPA subordinate and erstwhile president of the organization.

The Globes volition beryllium telecast Jan. 10, with stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael hosting.

On the TV side, “Abbott Elementary” led with 5 nominations, including champion series, philharmonic oregon comedy, and nods for its stars Quinta Brunson, Janelle James and Tyler James Williams. “The Crown,” “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” “Only Murders successful the Building,” “Pam & Tommy” and “White Lotus” each came distant with 4 nominations.

The Globes are trying to equine a comeback this year. A Los Angeles Times probe successful aboriginal 2021 recovered that the radical past had nary Black members, a revelation compounded by different allegations of ethical improprieties. Many stars and studios said they would boycott the show. Tom Cruise returned his 3 Globes.

Whether Cruise chooses to be this twelvemonth could beryllium 1 of the astir discussed question up of the ceremony. His “Top Gun: Maverick,” the year’s biggest box-office smash, is nominated for 2 awards: champion film, drama, and champion song. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer was among the archetypal to observe the film’s nominations with a connection of thanks.

“Top Gun: Maverick” wasn’t the lone blockbuster welcomed by the Globes. James Cameron’s upcoming “Avatar: The Way of Water” scored nods for some champion film, drama, and champion manager for Cameron. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” snagged 2 nominations, for Angela Bassett’s supporting show and Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up.”

Arguably nary movie got a bigger boost than Damien Chazelle’s soundless movie epoch epic “Babylon.” The movie doesn’t unfastened successful theaters until aboriginal this month, but came distant with 5 nominations, including nods for Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva.

NBC past twelvemonth canceled the telecast that would person taken spot this past January. Instead, the Golden Globes were quietly held successful a Beverly Hilton ballroom without immoderate stars successful attendance. Winners were announced connected Twitter.

Over the past twelvemonth and a half, the HFPA has revamped its rank and enacted reforms designed to curtail unethical behavior. The radical added caller and much divers members.

In bringing the Globes backmost connected the air, NBC praised the HFPA for its ongoing reforms but besides reworked its contract. The web volition broadcast the 2023 amusement successful a one-year deal, making January’s amusement a imaginable make-or-break infinitesimal for the Globes. NBC besides shifted the telecast to a Tuesday, alternatively of the Globes’ erstwhile Sunday nighttime perch, and volition watercourse the ceremonial connected Peacock, arsenic well.

Known for its boozy, celebrity-stuffed broadcast, the Globes person agelong ranked arsenic 1 of the most-watched non-sporting unrecorded programs of the year. But ratings, arsenic they person for astir grant shows, person slid for the Globes successful caller years. The 2021 show, held amid the pandemic, was watched by 6.9 million, down from 18 cardinal the twelvemonth prior.

The HFPA sold the Globes earlier this twelvemonth to Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries, which is turning it from a nonprofit to a for-profit venture. The steadfast besides owns Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Globes, and the grant show’s longtime home, the Beverly Hilton successful Los Angeles.

For Hollywood studios, the Globes tin beryllium a utile selling instrumentality that helps thrust audiences to awards contenders up of the Academy Awards, which this twelvemonth volition beryllium held March 12. In the past year, nary different awards assemblage has emerged arsenic a Globes replacement. And with humble summons income frankincense acold for galore of the fall’s astir acclaimed dramas, immoderate successful the manufacture volition surely anticipation to spot the Globes restored to their erstwhile luster.

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AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr contributed to this report