Golden Globe nominations give 'One Battle After Another' an early edge in the Oscar race

Nominations for the 83rd yearly Golden Globes arrived earlier dawn connected Monday and successful a crowded awards play afloat of aboriginal feints and mendacious starts, 1 movie came distant having intelligibly won the morning’s skirmish: “One Battle After Another.”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitious movie — astir erstwhile governmental radicals reckoning with mediate age, compromise and the ideals they erstwhile wore much proudly — showed up astir everyplace the Globes could enactment it, starring the tract with 9 nominations. It landed nods for champion question representation (musical oregon comedy), director, screenplay and respective actors, marking the broadest amusement of enactment for immoderate movie and giving a still-unsettled Oscar contention thing resembling a focal point.

“One Battle After Another” has already been connected a dependable rotation with critics, collecting apical prizes from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., the New York Film Critics Circle, the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review — an unusually accordant tally that has begun to abstracted it from the battalion adjacent earlier manufacture groups measurement in.

Elsewhere, the play representation class underscored conscionable however planetary — and fluid — the contention remains. The lineup leaned heavy toward filmmakers with beardown planetary followings, including Jafar Panahi’s tightly coiled governmental play “It Was Just an Accident,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian espionage thriller “The Secret Agent” and Joachim Trier’s emotionally precise household play “Sentimental Value.” They were joined by Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating gothic passionateness task “Frankenstein,” Chloé Zhao’s literate adaptation “Hamnet” and Ryan Coogler’s muscular, genre-bending play movie “Sinners.”

The drama oregon philharmonic contention leaned much openly into the Globes’ eclectic instincts. Alongside Anderson’s movie were Josh Safdie’s frenetic ping-pong dramedy “Marty Supreme,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest curveball “Bugonia,” Park Chan-wook’s South Korean satire “No Other Choice” and 2 films directed by Richard Linklater — the cinephile homage “Nouvelle Vague” and the softly old-fashioned quality survey “Blue Moon” starring Ethan Hawke.

The acting nominations blended seriousness and prima powerfulness successful acquainted Globes fashion. Leonardo DiCaprio landed a motion for “One Battle After Another” successful the philharmonic oregon drama category, portion the play histrion lineup included Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners”), Oscar Isaac (“Frankenstein”) and Dwayne Johnson (“The Smashing Machine”).

On the histrion side, Jessie Buckley (“Hamnet”), Renate Reinsve (“Sentimental Value”) and Julia Roberts (“After the Hunt”) anchored the field.

Anderson’s movie besides showed spot successful the supporting categories, earning nominations for Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor. “Sentimental Value,” meanwhile, emerged arsenic a quiescent force, collecting 3 supporting acting nods among its 8 nominations.

The manager class offered 1 of the morning’s clearer Oscar readings, pairing Anderson with Coogler, Del Toro, Zhao, Trier and Panahi — a lineup that intimately mirrors the season’s broader captious conversation.

The Golden Globes are inactive contending with the fallout of their caller past. A 2021 Los Angeles Times probe revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. had nary Black members and raised superior ethical and fiscal concerns, triggering manufacture backlash and prompting NBC to propulsion the 2022 broadcast.

In 2023, California regulators approved a restructuring that dissolved the HFPA entirely, transferred its charitable assets to a caller Golden Globe Foundation, and reconstituted the awards arsenic a for-profit endeavor owned by Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions. CBS brought the ceremonial backmost past twelvemonth and aboriginal signed a five-year broadcast deal.

That effort to crook the leafage has not eliminated scrutiny. This year, the Globes drew disapproval implicit the instauration of a caller podcast class aft announcing that nominees would beryllium selected utilizing information from Luminate, a steadfast jointly owned by Penske Media and Eldridge — the aforesaid companies that ain the awards. The inaugural nominees included “SmartLess,” “Call Her Daddy,” “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,” “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” “The Mel Robbins Podcast” and NPR’s “Up First.”

Some wrong the podcasting manufacture questioned the statement and the increasing commercialization of the awards, portion Penske representatives said astir eligible shows chose to participate.

This year’s nominations besides onshore astatine a infinitesimal of caller manufacture disruption. They came days aft Netflix announced plans to get Warner Bros., a woody that would further consolidate powerfulness among streaming platforms and change the equilibrium betwixt bequest studios and tech companies — a reminder that, adjacent arsenic structures shift, awards stay 1 of the fewer remaining measuring sticks.

On the tv side, the nominations were dispersed widely. HBO Max’s “The Pitt” and “The White Lotus,” Apple TV+’s “Severance” and “Pluribus,” Netflix’s “The Diplomat” and Apple’s “Slow Horses” were among the play nominees, portion drama oregon philharmonic bid included “Abbott Elementary,” “The Bear,” “Hacks,” “Only Murders successful the Building” and “The Studio.”

The Globes are not voted connected by Academy members and their reliability arsenic an Oscar bellwether has ever been uneven. Still, successful a play that has resisted casual hierarchy, the nominations connection a utile framework — suggesting which battles whitethorn substance astir next.

The Golden Globe Awards volition aerial Jan. 11 connected CBS, hosted by Nikki Glaser.