• It's the night of the 2024 Golden Globes: artists, films and television series will compete for the awards today, Sunday, January 7, on the stage of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles
• “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” the films that dominated the box office last summer and spawned countless memes, are the favorites for the most statuettes: They have 9 and 8 nominations, respectively
• Matteo Garrone is also in the running: His “I Captain” (Silver Lion in Venice, currently in French cinemas and also in US cinemas from January 23rd) is on the shortlist for the best foreign film, where the competition is, however, very fierce is bitter.
01:10 – Voters and the new categories
The Golden Globes are traditionally the first stop of the awards season, which culminates on March 10th with the Oscars. Whoever emerges as the winner has an excellent chance of repeating at the Oscars, but the dynamics between the two awards are different. The Golden Globes award awards for cinema and television (23 categories, this year also stand-up comedy and most successful film), there are around 300 voters (the majority are members of the dissolved HFPA, plus new jurors from seventy years). While the Oscars are reserved only for cinema, the voters are the approximately 10,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
00:42 – The favorites on the red carpet
The red carpet of this edition with major occasions, the first after the long strike of actors: at stake is the credibility of the new course to leave behind the boycotts of stars and productions, with the memory of the statuettes returned, like Tom Cruise said. The list of expected stars is very long, including nominees and presenters: Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Oprah Winfrey, America Ferrera, Daniel Kaluuya, Florence Pugh, Hailee Steinfeld, Issa Rae, Shameik Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Angela Bassett, Julia Garner, Justin Hartley, Michelle Yeoh, Patrick J. Adams, Will Ferrell, Carey Mulligan. The red carpet will also feature the season's most up-and-coming actors, including Anatomy of a Fall protagonist Sandra Huller and All of us Strangers contestant Andrew Scott.
00:02 – Golden Globes, 81st edition, the first part of the new course
Countdown at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles for the ceremony of the 81st edition of the Golden Globes, the award established in 1943 and administered until the last edition by the HFPA, the Association of Foreign Journalists in Hollywood. Overwhelmed by scandals and controversies – over lack of representation and unclear practices – and by the boycott of stars and television chains from which it could no longer recover, the HFPA was dissolved. The brand was acquired by Dick Clark Productions (DPC) and Todd Boehly's Eldridge Corporation. For the newly formed Golden Globe Foundation, it is actually the first edition of the new course after privatization. Comedian Jo Koy was chosen to host the ceremony two weeks ago: it will be broadcast live on CBS, streamed on Paramount+ and will not be visible to us. The race is between Greta Gerwing's Barbie – 9 nominations including Best Picture (Comedy), Director, Screenplay, Best Actress (Margot Robbie) and Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), three songs and a new category for box office films – and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer : 8 nominations, including film (drama), director, screenplay, actor (Cillian Murphy) and supporting actor (Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.). Behind him is the indomitable Martin Scorsese with seven nominations for “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Poor Creatures” by Yorgos Lanthimos. The series Succession, The Last Of Us and The Bear dominate on television. Italian hopes are pinned on Matteo Garrone's I Captain (Silver Lion in Venice, currently in French cinemas and also in American cinemas from January 23rd, with some real sponsors like Sting) on the shortlist for best film in a non-English language , although the competition is very tough: The Palme d'Or 2023 Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet (France), Past Lives by Celine Song (USA, but in Korean), The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (UK, but in German), The Snow Society by JA Bayona (Spain), Leaves in the Wind by Aki Kaurismaki (Finland).