Golden Globe Awards 2021
Following the most disruptive year in cinema history since World War II and arguably ever, and with a hugely compromised 2020 release slate which nevertheless saw some notable premieres primarily on the small screen, the sputtering and delayed award season railway made its first major stop of 2021 in Beverly Hills on Sunday for a hybrid version of the 78th annual Golden Globe awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Comedy superstars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returned to present a fairly open and understandably undersubscribed field with a healthy female and minority representation, which this year saw David Fincher’s stylish Hollywood insider historical biopic ‘Mank’ lead the field while Chloé Zhao’s soulful road movie meditation on modern America ‘Nomadland’ and Florian Zeller’s heartbreaking British portrait of dementia ‘The Father’ also picked up several nominations, with Zhao’s night ultimately proving highly successful.
With Hollywood at the vanguard of the culture wars there was also no shortage of customary controversy, recrimination, and social media fervour surrounding the ceremony this year, but there was also the small and completely subjective matter of awarding gold-ish statuettes for achievements in film over the last 12 months. So we break down the night’s film nominees and winners, as well as out personal picks.
Best Motion Picture- Drama
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‘Nomadland’ (Winner)
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‘The Father’
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‘Mank’
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‘Promising Young Woman’
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
Our pick from the nominees: ‘Nomadland’
Our pick overall: ‘Supernova’
Best Motion Picture- Musical or Comedy
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‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ (Winner)
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‘Hamilton’
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‘Music’
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‘Palm Springs’
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‘The Prom’
Our pick from the nominees: ‘Hamilton’
Our pick overall: ‘American Utopia’
Best Director
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Chloe Zhao for ‘Nomadland’ (Winner)
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The David Fincher for ‘Mank’
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Regina King for ‘One Night in Miami’
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Aaron Sorkin for ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
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Emerald Fennell for ‘Promising Young Woman’
Our pick from the nominees: David Fincher for ‘Mank’
Our pick overall: David Fincher for ‘Mank’
Best Actor in a Motion Picture- Drama
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Chadwick Boseman for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ (Winner)
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Riz Ahmed for ‘Sound of Metal’
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Anthony Hopkins for ‘The Father’
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Gary Oldman for ‘Mank’
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Tahar Rahim for ‘The Mauritanian’
Our pick from the nominees: Anthony Hopkins for ‘The Father’
Our pick overall: Anthony Hopkins for ‘The Father’
Best Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama
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Andra Day for ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ (Winner)
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Viola Davis for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
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Vanessa Kirby for ‘Pieces of a Woman’
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Frances McDormand for ‘Nomadland’
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Carey Mulligan and ‘Promising Young Woman’
Our pick from the nominees: Frances McDormand for ‘Nomadland’
Our pick overall: Frances McDormand for ‘Nomadland’
Best Actor in a Motion Picture- Musical or Comedy
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Sacha Baron Cohen for ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ (Winner)
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James Corden for ‘The Prom’
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Lin-Manuel Miranda for ‘Hamilton’
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Dev Patel for ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’
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Andy Samberg for ‘Palm Springs’
Our pick from the nominees: Lin-Manuel Miranda for ‘Hamilton’
Our pick overall: Lin-Manuel Miranda for ‘Hamilton’
Best Actress in a Motion Picture- Musical or Comedy
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Rosamund Pike for ‘I Care A Lot’ (Winner)
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Maria Bakalova for ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
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Kate Hudson for ‘Music’
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Michelle Pfeiffer for ‘French Exit’
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Anya Taylor-Joy for ‘Emma’
Our pick from the nominees: Maria Bakalova for ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
Our pick overall: Maria Bakalova for ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
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Daniel Kaluuya for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ (Winner)
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Sacha Baron Cohen for ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
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Jared Leto for ‘The Little Things’
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Bill Murray for ‘On the Rocks’
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Leslie Odom Jr. for ‘One Night in Miami’
Our pick from the nominees: Daniel Kaluuya for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Our pick overall: Kingsley Ben-Adir for ‘One Night in Miami’
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
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Jodie Foster for ‘The Mauritanian’ (Winner)
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Glenn Close for ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
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Olivia Colman for ‘The Father’
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Amanda Seyfried for ‘Mank’
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Helena Zengel for ‘News of the World’
Our pick from the nominees: Olivia Colman for ‘The Father’
Our pick overall: Olivia Colman for ‘The Father’
Best Screenplay- Motion Picture
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ (Winner)
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‘The Father’
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‘Mank’
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‘Nomadland’
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‘Promising Young Woman’
Our pick from the nominees: ‘Mank’
Our pick overall: ‘Mank’
Best Animated Feature Film
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‘Soul’ (Winner)
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‘The Croods: A New Age’
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‘Onward’
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‘Over the Moon’
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‘Wolfwalkers’
Our pick from the nominees: ‘Soul’
Our pick overall: ‘Soul’
Best Foreign Language Film
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‘Minari’ (USA) (Winner)
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‘Another Round’ (Denmark)
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‘La Llorona’ (Guatemala)
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‘The Life Ahead’ (Italy)
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‘Two of Us’ (France)
Our pick from the nominees: ‘Another Round’ (Denmark)
Our pick overall: ‘Another Round’ (Denmark)
Best Original Score- Motion Picture
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Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste for ‘Soul’ (Winner)
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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross for ‘Mank’
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Alexandre Desplat for ‘The Midnight Sky’
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James Newton Howard for ‘News of the World’
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Ludwig Göransson for ‘Tenet’
Our pick from the nominees: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste for ‘Soul’
Our pick overall: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste for ‘Soul’
Best Original Song- Motion Picture
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‘Io Si’ (Seen) from ‘The Life Ahead’ (Winner)
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‘Fight for You’ from ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ (Winner)
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‘Hear My Voice’ from ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
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‘Speak Now’ from ‘One Night in Miami’
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‘Tigress & Tweed’ from ‘The US vs Billie Holiday’
Our pick from the nominees: ‘Speak Now’ from ‘One Night in Miami’
Our pick overall: ‘Speak Now’ from ‘One Night in Miami’
Let us know what you think of this year’s nominees and winners and our alternative picks by commenting here and on social media.
As usual let’s all remember that film criticism is subjective and we all have our opinions on who should win what and why, the important thing is that the majority of the nominees at these shows deserve recognition for great work done, but no more than the many who often do not feature at all.
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