'Vice' leads with six Golden Globe nominations
Posted Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 2:29 PM Central
Last updated Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM Central
by John Couture
Politics and entertainment are intertwined as ever and that won't change any time soon if the Hollywood Foreign Press Association proves correct. Vice, the true story of former Vice President Dick Cheney, earned the most Golden Globe nominations this morning with six.
But Vice was hardly a runaway favorite. As is often the case with the Golden Globes, there is more confusion, not less, about the awards race when they accounce their nominations. Three films were tied for the next most nominations with five each including critic and fan favorite A Star is Born.
Interestingly, A Star is Born and Vice will only go head-to-head in a single category, Best Director, as the film about music was deemed to be a drama, while the dramatic political film was put in the Comedy or Musical category. I really hope that Dick Cheney doesn't have any big musical numbers in Vice.
On the TV side of things, perennial awards favorites This Is Us was shutout, while newer fare got the coveted nominations. This is the swan song for popular series The Americans and I know that many people will be pulling for it in the Best Drama and Best Actor/Actress categories.
As we did last year, we went ahead and offered our picks in each category. A word of warning though, we only correctly picked 9 out of 26 winners last year, so you might better off flipping a coin to pick your winners.
The 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on NBC on January 6.
2018 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD NOMINATIONS
MOVIES
Best Picture, Drama
Best Picture, Comedy or Musical
Best Director
- OUR PICK Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
- Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
- Peter Farrelly – Green Book
- Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
- Adam McKay – Vice
Best Actor, Drama
- OUR PICK Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
- Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate
- Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased
- Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
- John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
Best Actress, Drama
- Glenn Close – The Wife
- OUR PICK Lady Gaga – A Star is Born
- Nicole Kidman – Destroyer
- Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Rosamund Pike – A Private War
Best Actor, Comedy
- OUR PICK Christian Bale – Vice
- Lin-Manuel Miranda – Mary Poppins Returns
- Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
- Robert Redford – The Old Man and the Gun
- John C. Reilly – Stan & Ollie
Best Actress, Comedy
- OUR PICK Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns
- Olivia Colman – The Favourite
- Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
- Charlize Theron – Tully
- Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians
Best Supporting Actor
- OUR PICK Mahershala Ali – Green Book
- Timothee Chalamet – Beautiful Boy
- Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
- Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Sam Rockwell – Vice
Best Supporting Actress
- Amy Adams – Vice
- OUR PICK Claire Foy – First Man
- Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
- Emma Stone – The Favourite
- Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Best Screenplay
Best Original Score
- OUR PICK Marco Beltrami – A Quiet Place
- Alexandre Desplat – Isle of Dogs
- Ludwig Goransson – Black Panther
- Justin Hurwitz – First Man
- Marc Shaiman – Mary Poppins Returns
Best Original Song
- “All the Stars” – Black Panther
- “Girl in the Movies” – Dumplin'
- “Requiem for a Private War” – A Private War
- “Revelation” – Boy Erased
- OUR PICK “Shallow” – A Star is Born
Best Animated Feature Film
- Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs
- Mirai
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- OUR PICK Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
Best Foreign Language Film
- Capernaum – Lebanon
- Girl – Netherlands/Belgium
- Never Look Away – Germany/Italy
- OUR PICK Roma – Mexico
- Shoplifters – Japan
TELEVISION
Best TV Series, Drama
- The Americans
- Bodyguard
- OUR PICK Homecoming
- Killing Eve
- Pose
Best TV Series, Comedy/Musical
Best TV Miniseries or Movie
- The Alienist
- The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- Escape at Dannemora
- OUR PICK Sharp Objects
- A Very English Scandal
Best Actor, Drama
- Jason Bateman – Ozark
- Stephan James – Homecoming
- Richard Madden – Bodyguard
- Billy Porter – Pose
- OUR PICK Matthew Rhys – The Americans
Best Actress, Drama
- Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
- Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Sandra Oh – Killing Eve
- Julia Roberts – Homecoming
- OUR PICK Keri Russell – The Americans
Best Actor, Comedy
- Sacha Baron Cohen – Who Is America?
- Jim Carrey – Kidding
- OUR PICK Michael Keaton – The Kominsky Method
- Donald Glover – Atlanta
- Bill Hader – Barry
Best Actress, Comedy
- Kristen Bell – The Good Place
- Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown
- OUR PICK Alison Brie – Glow
- Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Debra Messing – Will & Grace
Best Supporting Actor
- Alan Arkin – The Kominsky Method
- Kieran Culkin – Succession
- Edgar Ramirez – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- OUR PICK Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal
- Henry Winkler – Barry
Best Supporting Actress
- Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Patricia Clarkson – Sharp Objects
- Penelope Cruz – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- OUR PICK Thandie Newton – Westworld
- Yvonne Strahovski – The Handmaid's Tale
Best Actor, Mini-Series or TV Movie
- Antonio Banderas – Genius: Picasso
- OUR PICK Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal
- Daniel Bruhl – The Alienist
- Darren Criss – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose
Best Actress, Mini-Series or TV Movie
- OUR PICK Amy Adams – Sharp Objects
- Patricia Arquette – Escape at Dannemora
- Connie Britton – Dirty John
- Laura Dern – The Tale
- Regina King – Seven Seconds