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(Left to right) Meryl Streep in "Only Murders in the Building," Brian Cox in "Succession" and Colman Domingo in "Rustin."
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Grownups took more than 30 top nominations for the 2024 Golden Globe Awards, which will be telecast Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
The year’s No. 1 hit movie, Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig and written by her and partner Noah Baumbach, 54, dominated the nominations, including best picture musical or comedy. Second came the second-biggest 2023 smash, Oppenheimer, with eight noms, including for best picture drama and for supporting actor Robert Downey Jr., 58.
Talents over 50 dominated in three categories. Grownups were four out of six contenders for best actor in a motion picture musical or comedy (Matt Damon, 53, Air; Jeffrey Wright, 58, American Fiction; Paul Giamatti, 56, The Holdovers; and Nicolas Cage, 59, Dream Scenario) and best supporting actor in any motion picture (Willem Dafoe, 68, Poor Things; Robert De Niro, 80, Killers of the Flower Moon; Mark Ruffalo, 56, Poor Things; and Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer).
Half of the TV best actor nominees were grownups: Brian Cox, 77, universally expected to be honored for Succession’s finale, Dominic West, 54, as Prince Charles in The Crown, and Gary Oldman, 65, in Slow Horses — the year’s big surprise, since the show itself was snubbed and few pundits had bet on him. But the show’s superb third season made more voters aware of his dazzling, hilarious role as a curmudgeonly spymaster.
The other near sweep by grownups was for best performance in stand-up comedy on TV (Chris Rock, 58, Selective Outrage; Sarah Silverman, 53, Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love; Wanda Sykes, 59, I’m an Entertainer; and Ricky Gervais, 62, Ricky Gervais Armageddon).
Mad Men alum Jon Hamm, 52, got a best actor nod for Fargo — arguably the best show on TV right now — and Woody Harrelson, 62, got a nod for his hilarious Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt in White House Plumbers.
As usual, female actors over 50 get short shrift compared to males, but Nyad’s extremely dynamic duo Annette Bening, 65, and Jodie Foster, 61, were honored for lead and supporting movie actress. Imelda Staunton, 67, was nominated as the queen in The Crown, and Helen Mirren, 78, in the Yellowstone prequel 1923.
Only Murders in the Building’s distinguished newcomer Meryl Streep, 74, was nominated in the supporting actress (musical, comedy or drama) category, along with the show’s male leads, Steve Martin, 78, and Martin Short, 73. Succession’s J. Smith-Cameron, 66, got a nod, as did Dead Ringers’ Rachel Weisz, 53, in the limited series category.
There was much to celebrate in the nominations, but there were also some surprising snubs. Mirren’s 1923 costar Harrison Ford, 81, who was also superb in Apple TV+’s Shrinking, got shut out. So did You’re Hurting My Feelings’ Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 62. The Globes claim to have the most diverse voter pool in their history this year, but you wouldn’t know it from the snubs of The Color Purple and its eminent star Taraji P. Henson, 53, multiple Emmy nominee Aunjanue Ellis, 54, in Origin, and Viola Davis, 58, despite Air’s nominations for Damon and for best motion picture (musical or comedy). But Colman Domingo, 54, did earn a well-deserved lead movie actor nom for Rustin.
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Here's the complete list of nominations:
Best Motion Picture — Drama
- Anatomy of a Fall (Neon)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
- Maestro (Netflix)
- Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
- Past Lives (A24)
- The Zone of Interest (A24)
Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
- Air (Amazon MGM Studios)
- American Fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
- Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- The Holdovers (Focus Features)
- May December (Netflix)
- Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
Best Motion Picture — Animated
- The Boy and the Heron (GKids)
- Elemental (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing)
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
- Suzume (Crunchyroll/Sony Pictures Entertainment)
- Wish (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
- Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate)
- Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
- Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing)
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (AMC Theatres Distribution)
Best Motion Picture — Non-English Language
- Anatomy of a Fall, France (Neon)
- Fallen Leaves, Finland (Mubi)
- Io Capitano, Italy (Pathe Distribution)
- Past Lives, United States (A24)
- Society of the Snow, Spain (Netflix)
- The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom/USA (A24)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama
- Bradley Cooper, Maestro
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Colman Domingo, Rustin
- Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
- Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
- Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
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