ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS  DECEMBER 09, 2019 The Biggest Surprises of the Golden Globe Nominations Were you woken up from your peaceful sleep by your agent this morning? Then congratulations, you are a Golden Globe nominee! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its picks this morning, and while it might be short on the truly oddball choices that burnish its legacy (though shout-out to Cate Blanchett and Where’d You Go, Bernadette), there are plenty of surprises and good old snubs to be had. The HWD team has pored over the nominations for the sources of both joy and outrage; join us in shaking our fists on behalf of Little Women and Lupita Nyong’o, cheering for Andrew Scott’s Hot Priest and The Two Popes, and pondering how you can nominate the L to the O.G., Brian Cox, for Successionand leave out his rapping onscreen son, Jeremy Strong. Elsewhere in HWD, Mark Harris takes a look at what the Globes can tell us about the best-picture race; Sharilyn Johnson reports from an onstage conversation between Stephen Colbert and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who has “nothing but regrets” about one element of Seinfeld; and Katey Rich takes a deep dive into this year’s best-original-song Oscar race, where some major pop stars are competing against each other, but it might be an animated queen who once again reigns supreme.

Shock and Awe Yes, The Irishman and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood and other Oscar contenders made an expectedly strong showing at the Golden Globe nominations this morning. But surprises abound, as they always do. READ MORE » And Then There Were Six As Mark Harris sees it, there are six films now very likely to get a best-picture nomination—and eight more looking to find a way in, including one true dark horse. Who got a leg up from the Golden Globes, and who will have to scramble in these final few weeks of the race? READ MORE » The Easter Eggs of Ghostbusters: Afterlife The first trailer for the new Ghostbusters adventure contains numerous references to the 1984 original. Anthony Breznican breaks it down in detail. READ MORE » “At the Time I Was Trying to Be Funky” Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn’t seem like the kind of person who has too much to regret, but her Seinfeld-era fashion might be the one exception, as she told Stephen Colbert in an onstage conversation on Saturday night. READ MORE » Into the Unknown Though pop superstars often get Oscar nominations in the best-original-song category, and bring much-desired star power to the telecast when they perform, the winners in the category are often much more obscure. With Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Elton John all in the running this year, will that pattern hold? READ MORE »