AROUND THE GLOBE IN 80 DAYS

On December 9, the nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced. The nominations for the Golden Globes are a good indicator for what might get nominated come the Academy Awards. The nominees for Best Motion Picture – Drama are: “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and “A Star is Born.” Many film commentators were surprised that two of those films: “A Star is Born” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” weren’t put in the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category. The nominees for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy are “Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Favourite,” “Green Book,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” and “Vice.” Like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “A Star is Born,” many commentators were confused as to why “Green Book” was put in the Musical or Comedy instead of the more appropriate category: Drama. For Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, the nominees are Glenn Close for “The Wife,” Lady Gaga for “A Star Is Born,” Nicole Kidman in “Destroyer,” Melissa McCarthy for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” and Rosamund Pike for “A Private War.” As for the gentlemen, the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama nominees are Bradley Cooper for “A Star is Born,” Willem Dafoe for “At Eternity’s Gate,” Lucas Hedges for “Boy Erased,” Rami Malek for his portrayal of legendary Queen singer Freddie Mercury for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and John David Washington, Denzel Washington’s son, for “BlacKkKlansman” (a film I raved about in “Infiltrate Hate”). The 76th Golden Globes will take place on Sunday, January 6, 2019.