‘One Battle After Another’ leads Golden Globe nominations, while ‘Wicked: For Good’ falters

Paul Thomas Anderson s One Battle After Another scored a leading nine nominations to the rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday adding to the Oscar favorite s momentum and handing Warner Bros a accomplishment amid Netflix s acquisition deal In nominations communicated from Beverly Hills California One Battle After Another landed nods for its cast Leonardo DiCaprio Teyana Taylor Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti and for Anderson s screenplay and direction It s competing in the Globes category for comedy and musicals Close on its heels was Joachim Trier s Sentimental Value a Norwegian family drama about a filmmaking family The Neon release s eight nominations included nods for four of its actors Stellan Skarsg rd Renate Reinsve Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas The Globe nominations a tattered but persistent rite in Hollywood are coming on the heels of the a potentially seismic shift in entertainment On Friday Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery for billion If approved the deal would reshape Hollywood and put one of its the bulk storied movie studios in the hands of the streaming giant Warner Bros Netflix and the Golden Globes Both companies are prominent in this year s awards season Along with One Battle After Another Warner Bros has Sinners Ryan Coogler s acclaimed vampire hit It was nominated for seven awards by the Globes including box office achievement best actor for Michael B Jordan and Coogler for best director Netflix s contenders include Noah Baumbach s Jay Kelly which landed nods for George Clooney and Adam Sandler Guillermo del Toro s Frankenstein five nominations and the streaming smash hit KPop Demon Hunters Arguably the most-watched movie of the year the three nominations for KPop Demon Hunters included one for cinematic and box office achievement an oddity for Netflix which typically gives its films only small limited theatrical runs but revealed a No box office weekend in singalong screenings for the animated film The two studios led all others in nominations across film and television on Monday Netflix landed nominations boosted by its expansive film slate and television nominees like the British limited series Adolescence five nominations Warner Bros had nominations including from HBO Max for series such as The White Lotus the lead TV nominee with six The proposed deal for Warner Bros has stoked concern throughout the industry that Netflix might devote one of the the majority theatrical-focused studios to streaming Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has pledged a theatrical commitment to a large number of Warner releases but the leading arrangement group for exhibitors has called the deal an unprecedented threat On Sunday President Donald Trump commented the industry share created by the merger could be a issue and Paramount revealed Monday it was mounting a hostile bid for Warner Bros Neon shines on a bad day for Wicked For Good Yet the studio that triumphed on the movie side of the Globe nominations was Neon The indie specialty film company has emerged as a dominant force in international releases winning a string of Palme d Or awards at the Cannes Film Festival It earned nominations Monday including five of the six international film nominees Particular of those nominations came at the expense of various high-profile studio films Wicked For Good was nominated for five awards including two nods for its songs and acting nominations for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande But it was overlooked for an award it was presumed to be in contention for best comedy or musical The nominees instead were One Battle After Another Yorgos Lanthimos Bugonia Josh Safdie s Marty Supreme Park Chan-wook s No Other Choice a Neon release and a pair of Richard Linklater movies in Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague In the drama category Chlo Zhao s Hamnet scored six nominations including nods for its stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal It was nominated for best film drama along with Frankenstein and three Neon titles The Secret Agent Sentimental Value and It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi s It Was Just an Accident the acclaimed Iranian revenge drama was nominated for a total of four awards At different times Panahi has often been imprisoned put under house arrest and prohibited from leaving Iran by the Islamic Republic while making films over the past two decades Earlier this month while traveling outside of Iran with the film he was sentenced to a year in prison and a new two-year journey ban Podcasters and A-listers mingle As the Globes continue to transition out of their scandal-plagued past there s one notable change this year For the first time the Globes are giving a best podcast trophy The inaugural nominees are Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard Call Her Daddy Good Hang With Amy Poehler The Mel Robbins Podcast SmartLess and NPR s Up First A multitude of of those nominees aren t exactly outsiders to Hollywood But they ll mingle with a wide array of stars that the Globes long known for packing their red carpet with A-listers were sure to nominate Those include Timothee Chalamet nominated for his performance in Marty Supreme Jennifer Lawrence Die My Love Julia Roberts After the Hunt Tessa Thompson Hedda Jeremy Allen White Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere Emma Stone Bugonia Ethan Hawke Blue Moon and the two stars of The Smashing Machine Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt After a series of controversies for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association the group that previously put on the ceremony the Globes were sold in to Todd Boehly s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions a part of Penske Media A new larger voting body of more than people now vote on the awards which moved from NBC to CBS on a shorter less expensive deal Nikki Glaser is returning as host to the Jan Globes airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount This past January Glaser won good reviews for her first time emceeing the ceremony Ratings were essentially unchanged slightly dipping to million viewers according to Nielsen from million in Helen Mirren will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award in a separate prime-time special airing Jan Sarah Jessica Parker will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award