Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, a surreal narco-thriller musical about a Mexican drug lord’s gender transition, dominates the 82nd Golden Globe nominations with ten nods, including Best Musical/Comedy and Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascon.
Hollywood’s awards season reaches a peak this Sunday at the 82nd Golden Globes, where Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez stands as the front-runner. This genre-bending musical about a Mexican drug lord transitioning to life as a woman leads with 10 nominations, the most ever for a musical or comedy film. Key nods include Best Musical/Comedy, Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascon, and supporting roles for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña.
Largely filmed in Spanish, the movie also competes in categories like Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Non-English Language Film. Having won the Jury Prize at Cannes, Emilia Perez hopes to continue its success at the Oscars in March.
“Emilia Perez is the far-and-away favorite,” notes Deadline columnist Pete Hammond, citing its international appeal and recent sweep of the European Film Awards.
The competition includes Sean Baker’s Anora, a modern-day Cinderella story set in Brooklyn, and Wicked, the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. While Wicked earned four nominations, including Best Actress for Cynthia Erivo, Hammond believes it is “at a disadvantage” due to limited recognition in key categories.
Other strong contenders include The Brutalist, with seven nominations, and Conclave, with six. The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor and architect, and Conclave, a Vatican-set thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, are favorites for Best Drama.
The Golden Globes are in their second year of reform after a 2021 exposé highlighted ethical shortcomings in their voting body. The revamped and more diverse jury now embraces international films and unconventional narratives, as evidenced by this year’s nominations.
In the musical-comedy category, Emilia Perez faces Anora, Challengers, Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain, Demi Moore’s body-horror film The Substance, and Wicked. Meanwhile, actresses like Angelina Jolie (Maria), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), and Kate Winslet (Lee Miller) lead the race in drama categories.
With the Oscars nomination voting set to begin three days after the Globes, this ceremony could significantly shape the awards season.
With AFP
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