Brisbane’s Jacob Elordi nominated for two Golden Globes
Brisbane-born Jacob Elordi has been nominated twice for one of the film industry’s top accolades.
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Rising star Jacob Elordi has earned two best actor nominations for next year’s Golden Globes and is Australia’s leading hope of taking home an award.
Elordi was nominated for the movie Frankenstein and his role in the television series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s prize-winning book.
Other Australians nominated in the 83rd Golden Globes are actress Rose Byrne for best female actor in a film — musical or comedy for the comedy/drama If I Had I Legs I’d Kick You.
Fellow Australian actor Joel Edgerton will vie for best male actor in a drama film for his leading role in Train Dreams. Australian muso Nick Cave is nominated for Original Song for the same movie.
Australian Sarah Snook is up for a best actress award for the series All Her Fault.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, leads the nominations in nine categories, including best director, best actor (DiCaprio) and best supporting actor for Sean Penn.
Close on its heels was Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a Norwegian family drama about a filmmaking family.
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The Neon release’s eight nominations included nods for four of its actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.
Rounding out the best movie nominations are Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, Sinners and The Secret Agent.
The most prominent snub appears to be the much-hyped second act to the Wicked movie, with the recently released Wicked: For Good failing to score a best movie nomination in the musical category, despite its two stars both earning nods.
In the early goings on in Hollywood’s awards season, Anderson’s One Battle After Another has dominated and is seen as the Oscar best picture front-runner.
Also in the mix are Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Trier’s Sentimental Value and Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.
The Golden Globe nominees for best supporting male actor are: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another; Elordi, Frankenstein; Paul Mescal, Hamnet; Sean Penn, One Battle After Another; Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly and Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value.
The nominees for best supporting female actor are: Emily Blunt, The Smashing Machine; Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value; Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good; Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value and Amy Madigan, Weapons.
As the Globes continue to transition out of their scandal-plagued past, there’s one notable change this year.
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For the first time, they have a best podcast trophy. It adds to the two-year-old award for cinematic and box-office achievement, a prize that so far has gone to Barbie and Wicked.
The Globe nominations, a tattered but persistent rite in Hollywood, came on the heels of a potentially seismic shift in entertainment.
On Friday, Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $US72 billion ($109 billion).
But then on Monday, Paramount made a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, challenging Netflix.
Paramount said Monday it was going straight to Warner Bros. shareholders with a $US30 ($45) a share cash offer for the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its Global Networks segment, asking them to reject the deal with Netflix.
That is the same bid that Warner Bros. rejected in favour of the offer from Netflix in a merger that would alter the US entertainment landscape.
After a series of scandals for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that previously put on the ceremony, the Globes were sold in 2023 to Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, a part of Penske Media.
A new, larger voting body of more than 300 people now votes on the awards, which have moved from NBC to CBS under a shorter, less expensive deal.
Nikki Glaser returns as host to the January 11 Globes, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
In January, Glaser won good reviews for her first time emceeing the ceremony. Ratings were essentially unchanged, slightly dipping to 9.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen, from 9.4 million in 2024.
Helen Mirren will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award in a separate prime-time special airing January 8.
Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker will be honoured with the Carol Burnett Award.
-with AAP
