After hitting the global box office, “Barbenheimer” wants to win everything at the Golden Globes. The duo barbie And Oppenheimerwhich grossed $2.3 billion in theaters this year, dominated the nominations on Monday for a Hollywood ceremony seeking renewal after repeated scandals.
barbie comes first with 9 nominations, including the “best comedy” category compared to 8 for Oppenheimer, including “best drama”. A duel which will notably be arbitrated by the French film Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, Palme d’Or at Cannes, which received 4 nominations.
Box Office Prize
Anatomy of a fall will particularly face Oppenheimer in the best drama category, but also Killers of the Flower Moonthe big rating of Martin Scorsese (7 nominations, as many as Poor creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos). It’s more open for Anatomy of a fall in the foreign language category, even if the American-Korean film Past Lives was very popular in the United States. Sandra Huller, who plays a German writer accused of having killed her husband, is applying in the “best dramatic actress” category. Finally, Justine Triet and her friend Arthur Harari will have a chance for their script, facing Oppenheimer And barbie (with a category that does not separate dramas and comedies).
To revive public interest, the Golden Globes are launching a “box office success” category in which we find, in addition to barbie And Oppenheimerblockbusters popular with the public, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Super Mario Bros, the movie, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 but also the concert Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
Farewell to “Succession”
The ceremony will also honor TV series Succession And The Last Of Uswhich respectively have nine and three nominations, including best drama.
On the comedy side, this will be played out between The Bear, Ted Lasso for his farewells, Abbott elementary, Barry, Jury Duty And Only Murders in the Building. The mini-series are also there with the nugget from Netflix Beef.
Reshuffled jury
The ceremony will be held in Beverly Hills (California), on January 7, and will be broadcast by the national network CBS, owned by the cinema giant Paramount, which replaced its competitor NBC.
With this change of broadcaster, a new category, a reshuffled jury and new owners, the Golden Globes are trying to boost their audiences and put aside the controversies of the past.
Once placed just behind the Oscars in terms of audience, the “Globes” only attracted 6.3 million viewers in 2023, their worst audience score, after 18 million at the start of 2020, just before the Covid pandemic. -19.
The ceremony has lost its luster due to accusations of racism and corruption, and some critics in Hollywood say the reforms raise new ethical questions.
For decades, the Golden Globes were owned, operated and awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). This eclectic group of around a hundred journalists covering the entertainment section for international media has often been criticized by industry professionals for its amateurism and opacity.
These behind-the-scenes barbs came to light in 2021, when the Los Angeles Times revealed that the organization had no Black people and that its members were accepting lavish gifts. The following year, the ceremony was boycotted by Hollywood. She remains today in search of redemption.