The Golden Globe Awards restarted nominations for its 82nd annual ceremony on Monday. This is the first time the celebration will not be run by the former nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

One thing that didn’t change, however, was the Golden Globes’ Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category – or at least what’s considered a comedy. In general, it’s pretty obvious which of the annual nominations are musicals – and this year too Evil And Emilia Perez– but every now and then there are films and/or performances in these films that are considered comedies even though they probably aren’t.

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The Golden Globes have been down this road before. In recent years, the 2015 sci-fi adventure drama The Martian The film received a nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes and a nomination for Best Actor for Matt Damon. The Martian won both races.

Ridley Scott was also nominated for best director The Martian from the Golden Globes, but the organization doesn’t nominate filmmakers by category but instead includes them all in one group.

There are two Golden Globes this year Martians-similar nominations in the “Film – Musical” or “Comedy” categories. challenger— a sports drama about a heated love triangle between three tennis players — received a best picture nomination in the musical or comedy category, as did Zendaya for best actress for the film.

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Additionally, a Musical or Comedy nomination for Best Performance by a Male Actor was announced for Hugh Grant Heretic.

However, Heretic is a psychological horror thriller about Mr. Reed, a madman who holds two Mormon missionaries captive while, over the course of the film, espousing what he believes to be the only true religion. After all, Reed’s speech is about torture and murder.

Grant is best known for his work in romantic comedies Four weddings and a funeral And Notting Hillbut his performance in Heretic is not as cheerful and sociable as his character appears in the first part of the film.

What’s different at the Golden Globes this year?

The nominations for the 2024 Golden Globe Awards mark a major departure from awards shows in decades past.

According to the Los Angeles TimesThe California attorney general in June approved a plan to dissolve the HFPA as a nonprofit organization.

The move was the latest film in the awards organization’s overhaul to be embroiled in scandal Peoplein recent years. One of the most serious scandals occurred when a damning report was published in the L.A. Times revealed that the HFPA did not count black journalists among its members.

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The Golden Globes organization is now a for-profit company and is currently owned by Todd Boehly – the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Eldridge Industries – who said L.A. Times its plans to deal with the crisis.

“Well, you turn the organization from a nonprofit with no accountability and poor leadership to an organization with employee-based accountability,” Boehly said L.A. Times.

Additionally, after decades on NBC, the Golden Globes have a new broadcast station on CBS. Additionally, CBS will stream the Golden Globes on Paramount+.

The 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards will be held on January 5 in Los Angeles.

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