Margot Robbie, Oprah Winfrey, and Leonardo DiCaprio will meet other major stars today at the Golden Globe Awards, the first major ceremony held in Hollywood since strikes affected much of the entertainment industry last year. The awards honor the best film and television works selected by a new group of 300 journalists from around the world as part of reforms made after a scandal involving ethical lapses and a lack of diversity in the previous voting body.
The hit summer film "Barbie," in which Robbie plays the famous doll, tops the nominations with nine nods. Following it is the historical drama "Oppenheimer," which tells the story of the creation of the atomic bomb, with eight nominations. The Golden Globe Awards mark the start of the annual awards season in Hollywood, culminating in the Oscars scheduled for March 10.
The ceremony will bring top stars together after a six-month period marked by strikes from actors and writers in 2023. It will offer celebrities the opportunity to highlight their films and television shows after months of promotion bans. Comedian Joe Koy, who will host his first major awards show starting at 8 PM (0100 GMT Monday), said, "I'm a little biased, but this is the best awards show, and we're going to have a great time."
The event will be broadcast live on CBS, and it will also be available to subscribers of Paramount+ and Showtime simultaneously. Among the nominees are Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, who co-starred in "Barbie," as well as "Oppenheimer" stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., and stars from Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," including Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert De Niro.
Oprah Winfrey will be one of the presenters, and pop star Taylor Swift might join the list of nominees for her film "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour," which competes in a new category for cinematic achievement and box office performance.
In the realm of television, the series "Succession" is expected to win multiple awards for its final season, leading the nominations with nine. It is followed by the drama series "The Bear," which has five nominations. There are 27 first-time nominees for the Golden Globe Awards this year.
Golden Globe ceremonies are known to be more casual than the Oscars. They nearly faced cancellation after a 2021 report by the Los Angeles Times revealed ethical lapses and a lack of diversity in the voting organization, composed of about 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The 2022 ceremony was canceled while the organization underwent reforms.
Last year, the Golden Globe rights were sold to new owners, and the HFPA was dismantled. The awards are now managed by Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, with a voting body of 300 journalists from 75 countries, with 60% racial diversity.
