The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nominations of movies and TV shows will guarantee a star-studded if not entirely predictable awards’ show in January.
Nominations for the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards arrived on Thursday and while a lot of the news was expected – “A Star Is Born” continues to roll in the early rounds of awards shows’ nods – there was plenty you might not have guessed in the office pool, such as the fact that “Vice,” the Dick Cheney biopic that doesn’t arrive in theaters until Dec. 25, leads the pack with six nominations.
Still, you knew the movie that stars a bulked-up Christian Bale as a Cheney look-and-sound-alike was going to get some measure of love from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the quirky organization of mostly unknown film writers from around the world .
We dug into the full list of nominations and came up few a snubs and surprises in a variety of categories. Such as…
1. Diversity ruled: In one of the best surprises, three of the five films nominated for best motion picture, drama – “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “BlacKkKlansman,” and “Black Panther” – tell stories of black and men and women. All three were directed by black men, Barry Jenkins, Spike Lee, and Ryan Coogler, with Lee also grabbing a nomination. Add to that a nomination for best motion picture, comedy or musical, “Crazy Rich Asians” as well as its star Constance Wu, and in the TV drama categories both “Killing Eve” and its star Sandra Oh, and it was a promising day for Asian stories and stars, too.
2. Except when diversity didn’t: The exception to the rule was the shut-out for women directors, such as Marielle Heller, whose “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” earned nominations for stars Melissa McCarthy and Richard E.
