Here are some of the bigger film nominations for Golden Globes – you can see the full list of 2019 Golden Globes nominations here. I’ve been saying for weeks that it didn’t seem like there was one clear-cut front-runner Oscar contender, and these Globes nominations haven’t done much to change my mind. It’s clear that the HFPA loves Vice, Green Book and… BlacKkKlansman, which wasn’t on many shortlist predications I saw. And of course, A Star Is Born is the closest thing we have to a front runner. The big nominations:

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
If Beale Streat Could Talk
A Star Is Born

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Green Book
Mary Poppins Returns
Vice

Best Director
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice

Lead Actress in a Drama
Glenn Close, The Wife
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Nicole Kidman, Destroyer
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Rosamund Pike, A Private War

Lead Actor in a Drama
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Willem Defoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Esie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Charlize Theron, Tully
Constance Wu, Crazy Rich Asians

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Christian Bale (“Vice”)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Mary Poppins Returns”)
Viggo Mortensen (“Green Book”)
Robert Redford (“The Old Man & the Gun”)
John C. Reilly (“Stan & Ollie”)

Is this the year that Regina King wins an Oscar? It’s more than possible that Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone cancel each other out in the supporting category. I think Emily Blunt and Constance Wu might battle it out in Comedy… and I’m still not convinced that Green Book is going to keep up the pace by the Oscar nominations. But mostly, my takeaway is that Vice is a bigger contender than people realized.

Notable snubs: no Julia Roberts for Ben Is Back, no Olivia Colman in The Favourite, no First Reformed or Ethan Hawke, NO WIDOWS, no Ryan Gosling for First Man (and the film didn’t make the Drama cut), NOTHING for Black Panther. Sigh.

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