Hollywood’s awards season heats up Sunday on the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez”—a couple of Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a girl—main the cost. Picture: JC Olivera/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Pictures by way of AFP
Hollywood’s awards season heats up Sunday on the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez”—a couple of Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a girl—main the cost.
Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying movie earned 10 nominations, essentially 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 sort of totally in Spanish—is hoping to throw down the gauntlet within the race to the Academy Awards, which can happen in early March.
“The far and away favourite right here moving into has acquired to be ‘Emilia Perez’,” Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond advised AFP.
“I believe it’s acquired 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 crimson carpet, and in addition providing extra choices for Academy voters set to quickly forged 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 gained the Jury Prize.
Different nods for the movie, which is streaming on Netflix after debuting in theaters, embody greatest director, two entries for greatest unique track, greatest rating, greatest non-English language movie, greatest screenplay, and greatest 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 stated 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 greatest 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 concerning the perils of ageing 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 beneath 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 via with nominees like “The Brutalist,” starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the USA.
The Globes are “positively extra worldwide. They’re extra open to completely different varieties of flicks,” he stated, 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 dying 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 perfect drama prize with Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown,” sci-fi epic “Dune: Half Two,” “Nickel Boys” and “September 5,” a take a look at the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage disaster from the media perspective.
“All of that is occurring three days earlier than the Oscars ballots go stay,” Hammond stated.
“So this actually might be influential in a good yr the place these items might go any which means.”
The Globes additionally honor the perfect 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.
