Jacques Audiard’s musical comedy distances itself from the other favorites: Anora, Conclave et The Brutalist. Another Frenchwoman who is enthusiastic, Coralie Fargeat. His horrific fable The Substance gets five nominations.
Champagne for French cinema which emerges as the big winner from the Golden Globes nominations, announced this Tuesday afternoon. Presented as a favorite, Jacques Audiard’s musical comedy on cartels Emilia Perez did not fail. On the contrary, with ten nominations (including best musical film, foreign film, director, screenplay, actress and supporting role), it flies above the other works in the running. Including drama favorites. The Brutalista portrait of a Holocaust survivor architect trying to make a new life in the United States, follows with seven nominations. The papal thriller Conclave gets six. the palm of gold Anora lands five.
This full box can reassure the anxious Jacques Audiard. Emilia Perez had a bumpy start to the campaign. Several American critics’ organizations – the Gotham Awards, the National Board Of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle – have not included the film in their awards.
Emilia Perez sometimes places up to two nominees per category. Into that of the best song slip The Evil et My Way. For the best song section and for the best supporting role section where Zoe Seldana reunites with Selena Gomez. They face Ariana Grande, kind witch of Wicked. Awarded at the European Cinema Oscars this weekend, Karla Sofia Gascon, who plays the tutelary heroine, will face the fabulous Micky Madison (Anora) and Cynthia Erivo (Wicked).
One French film can hide another
To win the trophy for best comedy or musical film, Emilia Perez will have to prevail on the palme d’or Anora, A Real PainPolish trip in the footsteps of the Shoah by Jesse Eisenberg, Wicked , the love triangle on the tennis courts of Challengersand the horrific fable of Coralie Fargeat The Substance.
The director is the other Frenchwoman to be acclaimed by the 300 foreign journalists who are members of the Golden Globes. The Substance landed five nominations: best comedy, best comedy actress (Demi Moore), best supporting role (Margaret Qualley), best screenplay and best direction. This category, which experts feared would be 100% male, is rich in wonderful surprises. Coralie Fargeat slips in like her Indian colleague Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light). They join Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker (Anora), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), Edward Berger (Conclave). The absence of Denis Villeneuve for Dune 2like that of Ridley Scott (Gladiator 2) surprised the experts.
On the other hand, the Golden Globes journalists praised The Apprentice. This youthful portrait of Donald Trump, denounced by the person concerned as being a charge, arouses a lot of nervousness among the studios. Its main actor Sebastian Stan, who had not found any colleague wishing to participate with him in the show Actors On Actors of Varietyis in the running for the best actor trophy against Timothée Chalamet (Bob Dylan in A complete stranger), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing, Sing), Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave). Jeremy Strong, who plays Trump’s mentor, is also present in the supporting role category.
Considered the most prestigious televised ceremony after the Oscars, the Golden Globes, which have been profoundly reformed following various accusations of corruption, are a springboard for films hoping to break through at the Oscars. Winning a Golden Globe on January 6 constitutes a valuable platform and visibility to convince the members of the Oscars to grant them their votes.