81st Annual Golden Globe Nominations

Awards season is well and truly under way as the nominations for the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The Golden Globes are the first of the major awards bodies to announce their nominations during this awards season that will culminate with the Academy Awards on 10th March 2024. The Globes are often seen as a precursor for the Academy Awards, alongside the likes of: BAFTA, SAG, PGA, DGA and Critic’s Choice. So these nominations will give us a clearer indication as to what to expect come the Oscars in three months time.

The film that has manged to rack up the most nominations is Barbie with a whopping nine nominations, including: Best Film – Comedy/Musical, Actress, Supporting Actor, Screenplay, Director and three song nominations. This is then followed by: Oppenheimer with eight nominations; Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon both with seven, . It has been a surprisingly strong showing for Past Lives, which managed to rack up five nominations, where as The Colour Purple under performed with only two nominations, missing out on Film – Comedy/Musical to Air.

The surprise inclusions include Alma Poysti and Rosamund Pike, who both recieved acting nominations for their work on Fallen Leaves and Saltburn respectively.

Full List of Golden Globe Nominations:

Film – Drama

1. Anatomy of a Fall
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Maestro
4. Oppenheimer
5. Past Lives
6. The Zone of Interest

Actor – Drama

1. Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
2. Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon)
3. Colman Domingo (Rustin)
4. Barry Keoghan (Saltburn)
5. Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
6. Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)

Actress – Drama

1. Annette Bening (Nyad)
2. Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
3. Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall)
4. Greta Lee (Past Lives)
5. Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
6. Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla)

Film – Comedy/Musical

1. Air
2. American Fiction
3. Barbie
4. The Holdovers
5. May December
6. Poor Things

Actor – Comedy/Musical

1. Nicolas Cage (Dream Scenario)
2. Timothee Chalamet (Wonka)
3. Matt Damon (Air)
4. Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
5. Joaquin Phoenix (Beau is Afraid)
6. Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Actress – Comedy/Musical

1. Fantasia Barrino (The Colour Purple)
2. Jennifer Lawrence (No Hard Feelings)
3. Natalie Portman (May December)
4. Alma Poysti (Fallen Leaves)
5. Margot Robbie (Barbie)
6. Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Supporting Actor

1. Willem Dafoe (Poor Things)
2. Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
3. Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
4. Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
5. Charles Melton (May December)
6. Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

Supporting Actress

1. Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
2. Danielle Brooks (The Colour Purple)
3. Jodie Foster (Nyad)
4. Julianne Moore (May December)
5. Rosamund Pike (Saltburn)
6. Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Director

1. Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
2. Greta Gerwig (Barbie)
3. Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
4. Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
5. Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
6. Celine Song (Past Lives)

Screenplay

1. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)
2. Barbie (Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth)
4. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
5. Past Lives (Celine Song)
6. Poor Things (Tony McNamara)

Animated Film

1. The Boy and the Heron
2. Elemental
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
5. Suzume
6. Wish

Non-English Language Film

1. Anatomy of a Fall (France)
2. Fallen Leaves (Finland)
3. Io capitano (Italy)
4. Past Lives (USA)
5. Society of the Snow (Spain)
6. The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Original Score

1. The Boy and the Heron (Joe Hisaishi)
2. Killers of the Flower Moon (Robbie Robertson)
3. Oppenheimer (Ludwig Goransson)
4. Poor Things (Jerskin Fendrix)
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton)
6. The Zone of Interest (Mica Levi)

Original Song

1. “Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)
2. “I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)
3. “What Was I Made For” by Billie Eilish and Finneas (Barbie)
4. “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz (Rustin)
5. “Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa (She Came to Me)
6. “Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, John Spiker (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

1. Barbie
2. Elemental
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. John Wick: Chapter 4
5. Oppenheimer
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
8. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Films with Multiple Nominations:

1. Barbie – 9
2. Oppenheimer – 8
3. Killers of the Flower Moon – 7
4. Poor Things – 7
5. Past Lives – 5
6. Anatomy of a Fall – 4
7. Maestro – 4
8. May December – 4
9. The Holdovers – 3
10. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – 3
11. The Super Mario Bros. Movie – 3
12. The Zone of Interest – 3
13. Air – 2
14. American Fiction – 2
15. The Boy and the Heron – 2
16. The Colour Purple – 2
17. Fallen Leaves – 2
18. Nyad- 2
19. Rustin – 2
20. Saltburn – 2