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December 10, 2023

WRITTEN BY: ADRIANO

This year sees the Golden Globes take one of their biggest shake ups since… well, last year, when they had another big shakeup. For the 81st Golden Globes, which take place on January 7th, 2024, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (or HFPA), the usual voting body for the Golden Globes, has been disbanded. Since then, Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries have acquired the awards show, and expanded the voting body from 200 voters to 300 while championing a 60% racially and ethnically diverse contingent of voters. Alongside the voting change, a new category has been added to the film side, the controversial Cinematic and Box-Office Achievement Award, and most interestingly enough, the categories’ nomination count has been expanded from five slots to six.


With that, many questions arise as to what the Golden Globes will look like this year. We’ll likely see the films we expect to dominate the awards season going forward to do well here, such as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. And of course, “Barbenheimer” is highly expected to dominate on both sides of the aisle with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer on the dramatic side and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie on the musical/comedy side.


The bigger questions are reserved for the fringe contenders, such as Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, or even Blitz Bazawule’s The Color Purple. The Color Purple, in particular, because in other years, a crowd-pleasing musical would likely annihilate at the Golden Globes; however, with this new voting body, while I personally find it likely the film will receive nominations, will it receive as many nominations as one would expect? As for an international title like Anatomy of a Fall or Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, will these types of titles fare better than they have in the past with the new voting body?


Either way, for many titles, this will be the jumping-off point for the rest of the awards season. I highly expect Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction and Celine Song’s Past Lives to cement their spots in the Best Picture race, but for other titles, I’m more interested in whether or not they will get the platform to show that they are here to stay. Titles such as Ben Affleck’s Air, Todd Haynes’ May December, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, and Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw are where we can see who means business and who will be missing out on awards season altogether.


All that said, I’m just excited that awards season is officially upon us, so get ready… because the Golden Globes are about to fire the starting gun!


Side note: For the sake of clarity and due to a lack of understanding at this point in time, I’ve decided not to focus on the television side, so this will only focus on the film side of the Golden Globes.

Without further ado, here are my predictions:

 

Best Motion Picture - Drama

  1. OPPENHEIMER

  2. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

  3. MAESTRO

  4. ANATOMY OF A FALL

  5. PAST LIVES

  6. THE IRON CLAW

 

Alt: PRISCILLA

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

  1. Carey Mulligan - MAESTRO

  2. Sandra Hüller - ANATOMY OF A FALL

  3. Lily Gladstone - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

  4. Cailee Spaeny - PRISCILLA

  5. Greta Lee - PAST LIVES

  6. Annette Bening - NYAD

 

Alt: Teyana Taylor - A THOUSAND AND ONE

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

  1. Cillian Murphy - OPPENHEIMER

  2. Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO

  3. Leonardo DiCaprio - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

  4. Colman Domingo - RUSTIN

  5. Zac Efron - THE IRON CLAW

  6. Andrew Scott - ALL OF US STRANGERS

 

Alt: Adam Driver - FERRARI

 

Outstanding Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  1. BARBIE

  2. POOR THINGS

  3. THE HOLDOVERS

  4. AMERICAN FICTION

  5. THE COLOR PURPLE

  6. MAY DECEMBER

 

Alt: WONKA

 

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  1. Emma Stone - POOR THINGS

  2. Margot Robbie - BARBIE

  3. Natalie Portman - MAY DECEMBER

  4. Fantasia Barrino - THE COLOR PURPLE

  5. Jennifer Lawrence - NO HARD FEELINGS

  6. Ayo Edebiri - BOTTOMS

 

Alt: Eve Hewson - FLORA AND SON

 

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  1. Paul Giamatti - THE HOLDOVERS

  2. Jeffrey Wright - AMERICAN FICTION

  3. Timothee Chalamet - WONKA

  4. Nicolas Cage - DREAM SCENARIO

  5. Jason Schwartzman - ASTEROID CITY

  6. Gael Garcia Bernal - CASSANDRO

 

Alt: Matt Damon - AIR

 

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in Any Motion Picture

  1. Danielle Brooks - THE COLOR PURPLE

  2. Da’Vine Joy Randolph - THE HOLDOVERS

  3. Emily Blunt - OPPENHEIMER

  4. Taraji P. Henson - THE COLOR PURPLE

  5. Penelope Cruz - FERRARI

  6. Jodie Foster - NYAD

 

Alt: America Ferrera - BARBIE

 

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in Any Motion Picture

  1. Ryan Gosling - BARBIE

  2. Robert Downey Jr. - OPPENHEIMER

  3. Mark Ruffalo - POOR THINGS

  4. Willem Dafoe - POOR THINGS

  5. Robert De Niro - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

  6. Charles Melton - MAY DECEMBER 

 

Alt: Dominic Sessa - THE HOLDOVERS

 

Best Director

  1. Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER

  2. Yorgos Lanthimos - POOR THINGS

  3. Martin Scorsese - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

  4. Greta Gerwig - BARBIE

  5. Bradley Cooper - MAESTRO

  6. Justine Triet - ANATOMY OF A FALL

 

Alt: Alexander Payne - THE HOLDOVERS

 

Best Screenplay

  1. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach - BARBIE

  2. Tony McNamara - POOR THINGS

  3. David Hemingson - THE HOLDOVERS

  4. Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER

  5. Celine Song - PAST LIVES

  6. Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

 

Alt: Cord Jefferson - AMERICAN FICTION

 

Best Motion Picture - Animated


  1. SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

  2. ELEMENTAL

  3. THE BOY AND THE HERON

  4. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

  5. NIMONA

  6. CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET

 

Alt: THE PEASANTS

 

Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language

  1. ANATOMY OF A FALL

  2. SOCIETY OF THE SNOW

  3. THE TASTE OF THINGS

  4. PERFECT DAYS

  5. THE BOY AND THE HERON

  6. THE ZONE OF INTEREST

 

Alt: THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE

 

Best Original Score

  1. Ludwig Göransson - OPPENHEIMER

  2. Robbie Robertson - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

  3. Daniel Pemberton - SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

  4. Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen - PAST LIVES

  5. Thomas Newman - ELEMENTAL

  6. John Williams - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

 

Alt: Jerskin Fendrix - POOR THINGS

 

Best Original Song


  1. I’m Just Ken - BARBIE (Written by: Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt)

  2. What Was I Made For? - BARBIE (Written by: Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell)

  3. Keep it Movin’ - THE COLOR PURPLE (Written by: Halle Bailey, Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney, and Morten Ristorp)

  4. Am I Dreaming - SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (Written by: Mike Dean, Peter Lee Johnson, Rakim Mayers, Roisee, Landon Wayne, and Leland Wayne)

  5. A World of Your Own - WONKA (Written by: Neil Hannon)

  6. High Life - FLORA AND SON (Written by: Gary Clark, John Carney, and Eve Hewson)

 

Alt: Can’t Catch Me Now - THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (Written by: Dan Nigro and Olivia Rodrigo)

 

Cinematic and Box-Office Achievement Award


  1. BARBIE

  2. OPPENHEIMER

  3. SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

  4. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

  5. JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4

  6. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

  7. THE LITTLE MERMAID

  8. ELEMENTAL

 

Alt: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART 1

Photo Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

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