Will "Mank" or "Nomadland" win?
"Promising Young Woman", "The Father" or "The Trial of the Chicago 7"?
With Amy Pohler and Tina Fay doing the honors (Amy in Los Angeles and Tina from the Rainbow Room in New York) and Spike Lee's children as "ambassadors", the Golden Globes will air Sunday night on Nbc with a hybrid, virtual and "live" format.
Two weeks ahead of the announcement, on March 15, of Oscar nominations, the awards for best cinema and best TV awarded annually by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, they have long been considered the more frivolous cousins of the Academy Awards - or as British comedian Ricky Gervais said at the 2012 ceremony: "What Kim Kardashian is compared to Kate Middleton".
There has been no lack of controversy in the past.
This year there is not only the pandemic to overshadow the evening with an expected audience of 18-20 million spectators: in addition to mourning the passing of President Lorenzo Soria, killed by cancer last summer, the Hfpa must do he comes to terms with the Los Angeles Times accusations of being a "caste" easily influenced by studies and ready to bestow lavish rewards to its members in spite of the organization's non-profit status.
It is not the only controversy raised by the newspaper which points out that among the 87 members of the HFPA there is not a single African American.
The anachronism counterbalances the fact that none of the potential Oscar nominees for Best Drama with a black cast have made it into the five: among the excluded, Regina King's "One Night in Miami" (which has three nominations in other categories) "and" Ma Rainey's Black Bottom "(two), while Lee's" Da 5 Bloods "was totally cut off. Chadwick Boseman received a Golden Globe for" Ma Rainey ", his latest interpretation: it would be the first posthumous award after Peter Finch's for "Fifth Power." The Globes 2021 made history under the banner of inclusion. With Chloe Zhao ("Nomadland") and Emerald Fennell ("Promising Young Woman"), King is one of three female directors nominated: a record in itself, and if one of them wins it would be a first time.
