Awards season for 2021 is heating up.
On Tuesday the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P Henson will reveal on Wednesday the nominees for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
They will appear live at 5:35 a.m. PST/8:35 am EST on the Today show.
It’s their job: On Tuesday the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P Henson will reveal the nominees for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Wednesday at 5:35 a.m. PST/8:35 am EST
Parker and Henson will announce the nominees in a wide-range of categories including Best Motion Picture, Best Television Series, Best Performance by an Actress, Best Performance by an Actor, Best Director, and more.
E! News will simulcast The Today Show exclusive broadcast of the first twelve categories, as well as the remaining categories.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in film and television.
Ready to share: Parker and Henson will appear live on Today to announce the nominees in a wide-range of categories including Best Motion Picture, Best Television Series, Best Performance by an Actress, Best Performance by an Actor, Best Director, and more; seen with Matthew Broderick in 2019
The telecast airs live coast to coast on Sunday, February 28, 2021 from 5 pm to 8 p.m. PST/8-11 p.m. EST on NBC.
Jane Fonda will receive a career achievement award, as will Norman Lear for his work on the television side.
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The Oscars follow some two months later, on April 25.
Hosts: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards, celebrating the best in film and television; seen in 2014
The unveiling of the Golden Globes nominations on Wednesday will jump start a Hollywood awards season like no other, with pandemic-related theater closures and blockbuster delays expected to boost smaller, stay-at-home movies like Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mank.
The influential Globes are often a bellwether for any given film’s success at the Oscars, but all bets are off in a year that has seen glitzy award campaign events scrapped and ceremonies postponed by Covid-19 restrictions.
Tinseltown’s traditional studios held back the release of several big hitters last year in the hope of theaters reopening, so streamers including Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple should fare better than ever at upcoming prize ceremonies.
An honor: Jane Fonda will receive a career achievement award, as will Norman Lear for his work on the television side. Seen in 2016
Among the lead contenders are Aaron Sorkin’s Chicago 7 – a timely look at the protests, police violence and madcap trial surrounding the 1968 Chicago anti-war riots – and David Fincher’s Mank, which dives into Golden Age Hollywood with the making of Citizen Kane.
Amazon Prime has One Night in Miami, a play adaptation about Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown’s friendship at the height of the US civil rights movement, and sleeper hit Sound of Metal’about a rock drummer who loses his hearing.
Holding the line for Hollywood’s old-school studios almost singlehandedly is Nomadland, which swept the prizes at the Venice and Toronto festivals and is the pick of many experts for overall best picture.
Top choice: Holding the line for Hollywood’s old-school studios almost singlehandedly is Nomadland, which swept the prizes at the Venice and Toronto festivals and is the pick of many experts for overall best picture
The movie from Disney-owned Searchlight stars Frances McDormand adrift among a community of elderly, nomadic idealists who roam across America in worn-out vans.
‘Most of the contenders seem to be more intimate movies, or ones that do play well at home,’ said Chris Beachum of awards tracker Gold Derby.
‘A lot of the big-screen type movies – thinking about a James Bond movie or the Marvel movies – have been held back anyway. They’re not even competing for this year’s races.’
Voted on by the 90-odd members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Globes split movies into ‘drama’ and ‘comedy or musical’ categories.
In the latter, Amazon sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm looks set to contend with Meryl Streep’s Netflix musical The Prom and the Disney+ filmed version of Broadway hit Hamilton.
New fun: Amazon sequel ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ looks set to contend with Meryl Streep’s Netflix musical ‘The Prom’ (pictured) and the Disney+ filmed version of Broadway hit ‘Hamilton.’
Hamilton, created from multiple performances featuring the original cast including creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, is not allowed to compete at the Oscars, meaning the Globes represent the best chance for the Tony-winning musical about the US founding fathers to scoop up film accolades.
Foreign-language films are likewise separated out into their own Globes pool, where Korean-American family drama Minari is tipped to emulate last year’s all-conquering Parasite.
In the acting categories, late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman could receive dual nominations for his work in 1920s blues drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, both on Netflix.
His time: In the acting categories, late ‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman could receive dual nominations for his work in 1920s blues drama ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ both on Netflix. Seen in 2019
Other heavyweight lead actor favorites include Anthony Hopkins for The Father, adapted from a French play about dementia, and Gary Oldman for Mank.
‘And you’ve got a favorite of the Globes people, Tom Hanks (for News of the World) — I mean, it’s a really strong category,’ said Beachum.
Boseman’s Ma Rainey co-star Viola Davis is expected to feature on the best actress side, along with Carey Mulligan for #MeToo revenge thriller Promising Young Woman, and McDormand.
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat and Chicago 7) and Leslie Odom Jr (One Night in Miami and Hamilton) are also eyeing multiple nods.
Last year, the HFPA was slammed for its failure to nominate any female directors, but Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) and Regina King (One Night in Miami) appear well-placed this year.
