'Barbie' leads Golden Globe nominations with 9, followed closely by 'Oppenheimer'
Published:Monday | December 11, 2023 | 9:52 AM
Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' dominated the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs.
It was closely followed by its release date and meme companion Oppenheimer, which scored eight nominations, including best picture drama and for actors Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt.
The revamped group, now a for-profit endeavour with a larger and more diverse voting body, announced nominations Monday for its January awards show, after scandal and several troubled years, including one without a broadcast. Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place on January 7.
Films nominated for best motion picture drama included Oppenheimer, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Bradley Cooper's Maestro, Celine Song's Past Lives, Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest.
In the best motion picture musical or comedy category, Barbie was joined by Air, American Fiction, The Holdovers, May December and Poor Things.
Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things and Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon both received seven nominations each. Poor Things saw nominations for Lanthimos, its actors Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Tony McNamara for screenplay and Jerskin Fendrix for score.
Killers of the Flower Moon got nods for Scorsese, for direction and co-writing the screenplay with Eric Roth, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro.
Barbie tied for second-most nominations in Globes history with Cabaret, from 1972.
Robert Altman's Nashville remains the record-holder with 11 nominations.
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