Can you smell the acceptance speeches in the air? It’s awards season! Those wonderful few months when Hollywood comes together to compete for some gold statues… I mean, to celebrate the best of film and television of the year.

The first major ceremony is the Golden Globes, which will present both film and television awards and give us a possible glimpse of what the Oscars could look like in 2025.

We’ll find out who the big winners are on January 6th next year, but in the meantime, let’s get into the hell yeahs, hell nos, and woahs of this year’s nominations.

Success: “The Substance” is a comedy/musical

Awards season has never been good for horror films (The Shining did NOT get an Oscar nomination) and there is no horror category, so Coralie Fargeat’s intensely violent and deeply disturbing allegory about how our society treats women as disposable objects ended up in the Best Comedy/Musical category .

“The Substance” actually received five nominations (more than “Wicked!”), including well-deserved acting nominations for leads Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, as well as a directing nomination for Fargeat.

“The Substance” isn’t the only horror film fighting for its survival in the “Comedy/Musical” category: Hugh Grant made it into the “Best Actor – Comedy” category with his portrayal of a creepy retro Redditor in “A24 Horror Heretic.” /Musical”.

Snub: And nothing for Jon M Chu, bye

Poor Jon M Chu. The Wicked director brought an entire fantastical world to life, and that wasn’t enough to force his way onto the admittedly very high Best Director nomination list.

Although the film received a nomination for Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical and was praised for its two stars, it fell short of expectations. Hell, it wasn’t even included in the largely absurd “Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” category, even though theaters are still bathed in pink and green.

Denis Villeneuve, director of Dune: 2, also missed out on the Best Director award despite being a frontrunner. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say it’s a thrill to see Coralie Fargeat and All We Imagine as Light’s Payal Kapadia gain recognition in the historically male-dominated category.

Surprise: Sebastian Stan sees double

Former Gossip Girl star (that’s right, look it up) Sebastian Stan has been a busy bee this year, juggling two very different films – A Different Man and The Apprentice.

In one he plays an actor with neurofibromatosis trying to cure his condition with surreal consequences, and in the other he is 1970s Donald Trump. The man has range and the Golden Globe voters agree, giving him a Best Actor nomination in both the Drama and Comedy/Musical categories for both films.

It’s an incredible turnaround for Stan, who just weeks ago was complaining that no one wanted to work with him on Variety’s “Actors on Actors.”

Success: Film and television that hasn’t come out yet

Admittedly, Australia is a little late to the game, but here’s a list of the Golden Globe nominees that haven’t been released yet worldwide.

• A complete unknown
• conclave
• Nickel Boys
• September 5th
• The brutalist
• I’m still here
• Baby girl
• The Last Showgirl
• The room next door
• Strange
• Squid game

Congratulations to all the nominees and their pre-release PR.

Snub: Screw you, Deadpool

Sometimes snubs make you sad because a great work has gone unrecognized, but completely upsetting Deadpool and Wolverine when it was predicted otherwise is cause for celebration.

As a fan of the first two films, the third installment in the series was the cinematic equivalent of a bad Peter Griffin impression and everyone involved should think carefully and deeply about why they came to see the film in the first place.

Surprise: There is no room for movie stars on television

Big movie stars Love to hide it in TV town, and it often provides a tasty little treat come awards season – but not this year.

Robert Downey Jr., who received an Emmy nomination for his work on “The Sympathizer,” missed out on a nomination. The same was true for Meryl Streep, whose sustained guest appearance on Only Murders In The Building earned her a nomination last year.

Won’t someone think of the movie stars?

Achievement: Move over, hot priest, there’s a hot rabbi in town

Netflix’s Nobody Wants This is the romantic comedy that brought together Adam Brody’s too-perfect hot rabbi and Kristen Bell’s impossibly wrinkle-free shiksa podcaster and scored an unexpected television hit.

Both Brody and Bell were nominated for acting in TV categories, and even if they lose at the Globes, their breakthrough performance makes them very good choices for next year’s Emmys (as long as everyone doesn’t forget about it by September).

Snub: I would die for June Squibb

Aside from the fact that 95-year-old Oscar nominee June Squibb deserves anything and everything, her role as the geriatric Liam Neeson in Thelma was a tour de force.

Not only did she manage to portray the loving grandmother, the tough assassin and a tearful rumination on the limits of aging – she also did her own stunts! What I’m saying is, grab all the important people in your life and watch Thelma this holiday season, you won’t regret it.

Surprise: Oh Hans, you did it again!

Dune-heads would have been a little disappointed this morning, as the sandy flick only received two GG nominations: one for Best Picture – Drama and one for front-runner Hans Zimmer’s outstanding score.

This is despite the fact that the soundtrack for “Dune: Part 2” was excluded from the Oscars because it was based too closely on the score of the first film.

And to that I say: Yaaaa Hyyyyyaaaaa Chouhadaaaaaaaaa.