Mank, Hamilton, Borat, Nomadland score Golden Globe movie nominations
This image released by Amazon Studios shows Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." (Amazon Studios via AP)
Hollywood period drama Mank got a leading six nominations on Wednesday (Feb 3) for the 2021 Golden Globe awards in film, while television shows The Crown and The Mandalorian will be among those competing for best series.
Netflix's Mank, about Citizen Kane co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, got nods for best film, best drama; best actor for Gary Oldman; best director for David Fincher, best supporting actress for Amanda Seyfried; best score; and best screenplay for Jack Fincher, the director’s father who penned the script before his death in 2003.
Streaming service Netflix Inc dominated the nominations in both film, with 22 nods, and television (20) after a year in which the coronavirus pandemic prompted Hollywood studios to push back dozens of their film releases, and many movie theatres were closed for months.
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The contest for the Golden Globe best drama film awards will also include modern Great Recession-era story Nomadland, 1960s Vietnam War protest drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7, #MeToo revenge story Promising Young Woman and ageing family drama The Father.
Sacha Baron Cohen's satire on former President Donald Trump's America, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; the film version of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton; LGBTQ musical The Prom; Music and time-loop comedy Palm Springs will compete in a separate category for musicals and comedies.
The Golden Globe awards, which kick off a pandemic-era Hollywood awards season, are due to be handed out at a ceremony on Feb 28, hosted by actors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The nominees and winners are selected by the small Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Three of the five directors nominated on Wednesday were women, including Regina King for black drama One Night In Miami, Britain's Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman and Chinese-born filmmaker Chloe Zhao for Nomadland.
Among the actors nominated were Baron Cohen for Borat, the late Chadwick Boseman in his last film role in jazz period piece Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, British actor Riz Ahmed as a drummer losing his hearing in Sound Of Metal and Frances McDormand for Nomadland.
(Source: Reuters)
