The film phenomenon, which also happens to be the highest-grossing picture of 2023, has swept the 81st Golden Globe nominations.
Nine prizes, including picture (comedy or musical), screenplay, director, leading actress for Margot Robbie, supporting actor for Ryan Gosling, and three different entries in the original song category, are up for grabs for Greta Gerwig’s pastel-colored satire.
After losing out on nominations for Lady Bird and Little Women, this is Gerwig’s first time on the directing shortlist. With this haul, Barbie becomes the second-most-nominated movie in Globe history, behind only Nashville with eleven nominations.FILE-During
a press briefing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 6, 2009, Golden Globe statuettes are visible. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles,
Along with Oppenheimer—a movie whose strange partnership with Barbie significantly increased the summer box office—and the follow-ups to John Wick, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, and Mission: Impossible, Barbie is also nominated for a new prize for blockbuster films. The Super Mario Bros. animation and the Taylor Swift concert footage were also included.
With eight nominations, including leading actor Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt for supporting actress, and Robert Downey Jr. for supporting actor, Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic of atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer is trailing behind.wretched things With seven nominations, Yorgos Lanthimos’s fantastical tale of a lady reborn with a baby’s brain fared better than anticipated, coming in second place to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Emma Stone is up for leading actress in a comedy or musical for the former, while Lily Gladstone is nominated in the equivalent drama category. Gladstone faces competition from Annette Bening for swimming drama Nyad, Sandra Hüller for the Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy of a Fall, Greta Lee for romantic weepie Past Lives and Cailee Spaeny for Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.Stone, meanwhile, competes against a strikingly eclectic mix of performances, from Jennifer Lawrence’s raunchy role in No Hard Feelings, Natalie Portman’s barbed melodrama in May December and Fantasia Barrino from the new musical version of The Color Purple.
With his portrayal of a stern teacher in Alexander Payne’s 1970 comedy The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti leads the field in the equivalent male category, beating out Matt Damon (Air), Nicolas Cage (Dream Scenario), Timothée Chalamet (Wonka), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction), and Joaquin Phoenix (Beau Is Afraid).
In addition to Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer, Jodie Foster for Nyad, Julianne Moore for May December, Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple, and Rosamund Pike for Saltburn, his co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph is also highly anticipated in the supporting actress field.
Along with Bradley Cooper for his Leonard Bernstein biography, Maestro, Barry Keoghan received a leading actor in a drama nomination for Emerald Fennell’s controversial second movie. In addition, three other finalists are portraying real-life characters: Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon, Colman Domingo in the civil rights thriller Rustin, and Murphy in Oppenheimer.
All of Us Strangers, starring Andrew Scott as a screenwriter who meets his deceased parents, is also nominated for the award; however, Andrew Haigh’s picture, which dominated last week’s British Independent picture Awards, only received this one nomination.
In addition to Oppenheimer, another movie by a British director is becoming more and more popular in both festival and mainstream Hollywood circles: The Zone of Jonathan Glazer