Yesterday, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Helen Hoehne and rapper Snoop Dogg announced the nominees for the 79th Golden Globe Awards to honor the best in film and American TV from 2021. You can watch the livestream below. The most nominated films were Belfast and The Power of the Dog, with seven nods each, and the most nominated TV program was Succession, with five. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony on January 9, 2022, though numerous media organizations (including regular TV broadcaster NBC), actors, and others plan to boycott the event over HFPA’s inadequate efforts to address its membership diversity.
Three musicals are in the running for Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture, all of which were adapted from stage productions. In addition to their nods for best film, Cyrano and Tick, Tick … Boom! also received notice for their leading actors, Peter Dinklage and Andrew Garfield, respectively, while West Side Story also received nods for director Steven Spielberg, lead actress Rachel Zegler, and supporting actress Ariana DeBose.
Lead actress Marion Cotillard was the lone nominee from Annette, and lead actor Anthony Ramos received the only nod for In the Heights. The sole musical nominee among the TV categories is lead actress Cynthia Erivo for the TV film Genius: Aretha.
In the running for original score are Alexandre Desplat (The French Dispatch), Germaine Franco (Encanto), Jonny Greenwood (The Power of the Dog), Alberto Iglesias (Parallel Mothers), and Hans Zimmer (Dune). The musical Encanto is also in consideration for animated film and its original song “Dos Oruguitas” by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The other contenders for original song are “Be Alive” (King Richard) by Dixon and Beyoncé, “Down to Joy” (Belfast) by Van Morrision, “Here I Am” (Respect) by Carole King, Jennifer Hudson, and Jamie Hartman, and “No Time to Die” (No Time to Die) by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell.