“Emilia Pérez Leads Nominations, Gladiator II Snubbed”

“Emilia Pérez Leads Nominations, Gladiator II Snubbed”

Below are the five key takeaways from the film’s 2025 Golden Globes nominations announcement, taken from The Hollywood Reporter’s managing editor (awards) Scott Feinberg on Monday.

1. Emilia Perez comes back to life

In last week’s flurry of awards announcements, major critics groups on both coasts, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, as well as the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review, responded with almost complete snubs Emilia Perez. But Netflix’s Spanish-language musical came back to life with a win at the European Film Awards on Sunday and top 10 Golden Globe nominations on Monday BarbieIt’s nine to set a new all-time musical/comedy record. (It ended just one behind the drama Nashville for the Globes all-time world record.)

The highly unusual film was widely expected to receive eight nominations – for best musical/comedy film, for best director (Jacques Audiard), Screenplay, Non-English Language Film, Original Music, “El Mal” in the “Song” category, Karla Sofia Gascon in the Lead Actress category (who was the first trans actress ever to be nominated for an Acting Globe) and Zoe Saldana in the “Supporting Actress” category – but there was also a second nomination for a supporting actress, e.g Selena Gomezand a second song name for “Mi Camino.”

Audiard alone is technically nominated for five awards, which is as many as anyone else film except A24 The brutalist (seven) and Focus’ conclave (six): as a producer of a Best Picture nominee and a Best Foreign Language Film nominee, a Best Director nominee, a screenwriter and a co-writer of “El Mal.”

2. The Golden Globes organization shows that it is not the HFPA

The strong appearance of Emilia Perezas well as other major Brazilian film nominations from Sony Classics I’m still here (Fernanda Torres as best drama actress) and the Indian film by Janus/Sideshow Everything we imagine as light (Payal Kapadia for best director) follows last year’s Globe nominations, where three of the six best drama nominees were non-English language films.

The Globes have always been voted for primarily by non-Americans. But until last year, Globe nominations were determined solely by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of fewer than 100 people based in and around LA. The HFPA functioned like a club, with cliques of members often banding together to push through the biggest names in Hollywood (remember that). Angelina Jolieis the name for The tourist?), which made the ceremony more entertaining for members and more likely to generate high ratings.

However, this type of coordination appears to have declined significantly since the HFPA was sold and its members were either expelled from or absorbed into the new Golden Globes organization. Today, the Globes’ membership consists of 334 journalists from around the world, and the nominations are determined not only by them, but also by non-member critics – many of them from FIPRESCI, an international association of film critics, which participates in many of them the major film festivals around the world – who won’t be at the show and whose tastes differ from the old HFPA.

3. A third of the director nominees are women

The Globes have several categories in different areas (dramas and musicals/comedies separately), but like every other major awards show, only one category for directors. Therefore, it is very notable that voters have nominated two women for Best Director – Payal Kapadia for Everything we imagine as light And Coralie Fargeat for MUBIs The substance – about a number of men who were widely viewed as stronger bets, including Ridley Scott for Paramount’s Gladiator II, Denis Villeneuve for Warners Dune: Part Two, Jon M. Chu for Universal Evil And RaMell Ross for Amazon/MGM’s Nickel Boys.

Oddly enough, while Fargeat’s film was also nominated for Best Picture (Musical/Comedy) and she was also nominated for Best Screenplay, Kapadia’s film was not also nominated for Best Picture (Drama) and she was not also nominated for Best Screenplay. However, Everything we imagine as light is nominated for best non-English language film – a category in which it has effectively taken first place in previous awards announcements – among others Emilia Perez.

4. Urgently needed impulses

A number of films that received Globe nominations desperately needed them, as they have so far largely underperformed. Let’s take for example The substance. It’s worth five nominations – it’s up for best musical/comedy film, best director and best actress (Demi Moore), supporting actress (Margaret Qualley) and screenplay — is a huge boost for this Hollywood body-horror satire and could prompt voters from other awards groups to prioritize viewing.

Searchlight A complete unknown“The Movie” was a late release and only had a spot on AFI and NBR’s top 10 lists to confirm it was catching on – until the Globes nominated it for best drama film and best actor (Timothée Chalamet) and supporting actors (Edward Norton).

The Briarcliff/Rich Spirit two-hander The apprentice had been largely ignored until Monday Sebastian Stan was nominated for best drama actor and Jeremy Strong was nominated for best supporting actor. Also receives two nominations: Roadside’s The Last Showgirlwith Pamela Anderson make the cut for best drama actress and the Miley Cyrus The song “Beautiful That Way” landed a spot as Best Original Song.

Kate Winslet snuck into the Best Drama Actress category as Roadside’s only nominee lee. And September 5th has been MIA not only at recent awards shows (with the exception of a LAFCA award for Best Editing), but even at the Globes announcement, until it was included in the very last category to be announced: Best Drama Film, for which it was selected became other titles, Paramount’s other major awards hope Gladiator II.

5. Hard hits

Speaking of which, Gladiator II received nominations for box office/box office results only and Denzel Washington in the supporting actor category – no best drama film, no Ridley Scott for best director, no Paul Mescal for the best acting actor and without film music. That’s hard.

A24 Singing Singing also performed below average. Colman Domingo is a finalist for Best Drama Actor, but the film was missing from the Best Drama Picture race and also came up short in its script, original song “Like a Bird” and supporting cast Clarence Maclin.

Totally MIA from the names: Bleecker Street’s Hard truths (Marianne Jean Baptiste (who was widely expected to be nominated for best drama actress) from Netflix The piano lesson (Most experts predicted it Danielle Deadwyler for a nomination for best supporting actress) and both Saoirse Ronan‘s 2024 vehicles, Apple’s flash and Sony Classics’ The outrun.

Note: Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge, which also owns The Hollywood Reporter.

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