Hollywood’s awards season heats up Sunday on the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical “Emilia Perez” – a couple of Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a lady – main the cost.

Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying movie earned 10 nominations, essentially the most ever for a musical or comedy movie, together with for star transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who performs the title character, in addition to co-stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.

‘Far and away the favourite’

“Emilia Perez” – which is nearly solely in Spanish – is hoping to throw down the gauntlet within the race to the Academy Awards, which is able to happen in early March.

“The far and away favourite here going in has got to be ‘Emilia Perez’,” Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond informed AFP.

“I think it’s got the international thing going for it, and it just swept the European Film Awards.”

The Golden Globes provide separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals – widening the sector of stars who will stroll the pink carpet, and likewise providing extra choices for Academy voters set to quickly forged ballots for the Oscar nominations.

“Emilia Perez” began its march in direction of Hollywood glory on the Cannes movie competition, the place it received the Jury Prize.

Other nods for the movie, which is streaming on Netflix after debuting in theaters, embody finest director, two entries for finest unique track, finest rating, finest non-English language movie, finest screenplay, and finest comedy or musical movie.

It will compete for high musical-comedy honors with smash hit “Wicked,” Cannes darling “Anora,” tennis love-triangle movie “Challengers,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” and physique horror movie “The Substance” starring Demi Moore.

“Wicked,” the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earned 4 nominations, together with for pop sensation Ariana Grande because the bubbly pink-clad Glinda and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo because the green-skinned Elphaba.

Hammond stated he believed “Wicked” could be at a “disadvantage” on the Globes, given its lack of nominations in key classes, however he favours Erivo to take dwelling the prize for finest lead actress.

She will compete with Gascon, “Anora” star Mikey Madison, Amy Adams (“Nightbitch”), Moore and “Challengers” star Zendaya.

Hammond calls “The Substance” his darkish horse of the season, and says its message in regards to the perils of growing old in Hollywood might resonate with voters.

‘Brutalist’ vs ‘Conclave’

The Globes are in 12 months two of a revamp, following a Los Angeles Times expose in 2021 that confirmed that the awards’ voting physique – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – had no black members.

Now beneath new possession, and with the HFPA disbanded, organisers are hoping to capitalize on a rankings bump registered final January, and maybe even burnish the gala’s standing as a predictor of Oscars success.

Hammond says the reorganization shines by with nominees like “The Brutalist,” starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States.

The Globes are “definitely more international. They’re more open to different kinds of movies,” he stated, citing “The Brutalist” – which earned seven nominations, behind “Emilia Perez” – for instance.

It will do battle with papal drama “Conclave,” a fictionalised account of high-stakes Holy See horse-trading, depicting how the dying of a pope sends the church’s varied factions into battle for its future. It is predicated on a novel by Robert Harris.

“Conclave” star Ralph Fiennes earned one of many movie’s six nominations.

The two favorites will compete for the perfect drama prize with Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” sci-fi epic “Dune: Part Two,” “Nickel Boys,” and “September 5,” a take a look at the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage disaster from the media perspective.

“All of this is happening three days before the Oscars ballots go live,” Hammond stated.

“So this really could be influential in a tight year where these things could go any which way.”

The Globes additionally honor the perfect in tv, with comedy “The Bear” incomes 5 nominations, and historic epic “Shogun” and comedy “Only Murders in the Building” tied at 4.

Comedian Nikki Glaser will host Sunday’s gala in Beverly Hills.

List of key Golden Globe nominees

Here are the nominees in key classes for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, which will likely be handed out on Sunday.

Surreal musical “Emilia Perez” leads all contenders with 10 nods, adopted by “The Brutalist” at seven and “Conclave” at six.

FILM

Best movie, drama

“The Brutalist”

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“A Complete Unknown”

“Conclave”

“Dune: Part Two”

“Nickel Boys”

“September 5”

Best movie, musical or comedy

“Anora”

“Challengers”

“Emilia Perez”

“A Real Pain”

“The Substance”

“Wicked”

Best actor, drama

Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”

Timothee Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”

Daniel Craig, “Queer”

Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”

Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”

Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

Best actress, drama

Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl”

Angelina Jolie, “Maria”

Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”

Tilda Swinton, “The Room Next Door”

Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”

Kate Winslet, “Lee”

Best actor, musical or comedy

Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”

Hugh Grant, “Heretic”

Gabriel LaBelle, “Saturday Night”

Jesse Plemons, “Kinds of Kindness”

Glen Powell, “Hit Man”

Sebastian Stan, “A Different Man”

Best actress, musical or comedy

Amy Adams, “Nightbitch”

Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”

Karla Sofia Gascon, “Emilia Perez”

Mikey Madison, “Anora”

Demi Moore, “The Substance”

Zendaya, “Challengers”

Best supporting actor

Yura Borisov, “Anora”

Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”

Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”

Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”

Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”

Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II”

Best supporting actress

Selena Gomez, “Emilia Perez”

Ariana Grande, “Wicked”

Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”

Margaret Qualley, “The Substance”

Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”

Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Perez”

Best director

Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Perez”

Sean Baker, “Anora”

Edward Berger, “Conclave”

Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”

Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”

Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light”

Best non-English language movie

“All We Imagine as Light”

“Emilia Perez”

“The Girl with the Needle”

“I’m Still Here”

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

“Vermiglio”

Best cinematic and field workplace achievement

“Alien: Romulus”

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”

“Deadpool & Wolverine”

“Gladiator II”

“Inside Out 2”

“Twisters”

“Wicked”

“The Wild Robot”

Best animated characteristic

“Flow”

“Inside Out 2”

“Memoir of a Snail”

“Moana 2”

“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

“The Wild Robot”

TELEVISION

Best drama sequence

“The Day of the Jackal”

“The Diplomat”

“Mr & Mrs Smith”

“Shogun”

“Slow Horses”

“Squid Game”

Best drama actor

Donald Glover, “Mr & Mrs Smith”

Jake Gyllenhaal, “Presumed Innocent”

Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”

Eddie Redmayne, “The Day of the Jackal”

Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shogun”

Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman”

Best drama actress

Kathy Bates, “Matlock”

Emma D’Arcy, “House of the Dragon”

Maya Erskine, “Mr & Mrs Smith”

Keira Knightley, “Black Doves”

Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”

Anna Sawai, “Shogun”

Best musical or comedy sequence

“Abbott Elementary”

“The Bear”

“The Gentlemen”

“Hacks”

“Nobody Wants This”

“Only Murders in the Building”

Best musical or comedy actor

Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”

Ted Danson, “A Man on the Inside”

Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”

Jason Segel, “Shrinking”

Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”

Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

Best musical or comedy actress

Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”

Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”

Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”

Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”

Kathryn Hahn, “Agatha All Along”

Jean Smart, “Hacks”

Best restricted sequence or TV film

“Baby Reindeer”

“Disclaimer”

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”

“The Penguin”

“Ripley”

“True Detective: Night Country”

Best restricted sequence or TV film actor

Colin Farrell, “The Penguin”

Richard Gadd, “Baby Reindeer”

Kevin Kline, “Disclaimer”

Cooper Koch, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”

Ewan McGregor, “A Gentleman in Moscow”

Andrew Scott, “Ripley”

Best restricted sequence or TV film actress

Cate Blanchett, “Disclaimer”

Jodie Foster, “True Detective: Night Country”

Cristin Milioti, “The Penguin”

Sofia Vergara, “Griselda”

Naomi Watts, “Feud: Capote vs the Swans”

Kate Winslet, “The Regime”

Best efficiency in stand-up comedy on tv

Jamie Foxx, “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was”

Nikki Glaser, “Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die”

Seth Meyers, “Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking”

Adam Sandler, “Adam Sandler: Love You”

Ali Wong, “Ali Wong: Single Lady”

Ramy Youssef, “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings”

FILMS WITH MOST NOMINATIONS

“Emilia Perez” – 10

“The Brutalist” – 7

“Conclave” – 6

“Anora” – 5

“The Substance” – 5

How lots of the nominated movies or TV sequence have you ever seen?

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