The 2024 Golden Globe Nominations Are a Big 'Barbie', 'Oppenheimer' and 'Succession' Party

When Barbie and Oppenheimer both released in cinemas on the same July 2023 day, they didn't take attention away from each other. Instead, Barbenheimer had everyone flocking to picture palaces to see both. Among the just-announced 2024 Golden Globe nominations, a similar phenomenon is occurring. Since these gongs split the bulk of the awards into dramas and musicals/comedies, Barbie and Oppenheimer have both scored a heap of love largely without competing.

Greta Gerwig's take on the toy doll topped the list among the number of nods given to this year's contenders, nabbing nine overall. Christopher Nolan's latest was only one behind with eight. The two do face off in a few fields: Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (with Ryan Gosling and Robert Downey Jr nominated), and the brand-new Cinematic and Box Office Achievement accolade that's clearly designed to give a shiny trophy to a blockbuster (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Super Mario Bros Movie and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour are also in the running).

Now boasting six competitors per category, the Golden Globes will anoint its latest round of winners on Monday, January 8 Australian and New Zealand time, with Killers of the Flower Moon (with seven), Poor Things (also seven) and Past Lives (with five) also joining the movie-loving party. TV earns affection at these awards as well, with Succession garnering nine nominations, followed by The Bear and Only Murders in the Building with five each.

Among the other cinema highlights: Celine Song's debut feature doing so well; Greta Gerwig finally being recognised in the Best Director camp after missing out for Lady Bird and Little Women; Lily Gladstone, always; The Boy and the Heron in the Best Animation field; Suzume doing the same; not one, not two, but three Best Song nominations for Barbie, including for earworm 'I'm Just Ken'; Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest notching up nods beyond the Non-English Language category; and Barry Keoghan's Saltburn and Andrew Scott's All of Us Strangers noms.

Also stellar: Emma Stone getting attention for two absolutely stunning performances on screens big and small, aka Poor Things and The Curse.

From the TV contenders, The Last of Us, Barry, Beef and Fargo all thoroughly deserve their nominations. So do Elle Fanning for The Great, Natasha Lyonne for Poker Face, Rachel Weisz for Dead Ringers and Christina Ricci for Yellowjackets, even if the shows they're each in sadly didn't get enough attention overall. The television fields also completely ignored Reservation Dogs and The Other Two, two of the best shows of the year, both of which wrapped up after their third seasons.

Australian actors picked up three nominations, with Margot Robbie receiving the nod for Barbie, Sarah Snook for Succession and Elizabeth Debicki for The Crown.

If you're wondering what else is in the running, here's the full list of nominations:

 

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEES:

BEST MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA

Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA

Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

BEST MOTION PICTURE — MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Air
American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
May December
Poor Things

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE — MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman, May December
Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE — MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau Is Afraid
Matt Damon, Air
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Timothée Chalamet, Wonka

BEST MOTION PICTURE — ANIMATED

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros Movie
Suzume
Wish

BEST MOTION PICTURE — NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Io Capitano
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE

Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things

BEST DIRECTOR — MOTION PICTURE

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of The Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives

BEST SCREENPLAY — MOTION PICTURE

Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE — MOTION PICTURE

The Boy and the Heron
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

BEST ORIGINAL SONG — MOTION PICTURE

Bruce Springsteen, 'Addicted to Romance', She Came to Me
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa and Caroline Ailin, 'Dance the Night', Barbie
Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, 'I'm Just Ken', Barbie
Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond and John Spiker, 'Peaches', The Super Mario Bros Movie
Lenny Kravitz, 'Road to Freedom', Rustin
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, 'What Was I Made For?', Barbie

CINEMATIC AND BOX OFFICE ACHIEVEMENT

Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

BEST TELEVISION SERIES — DRAMA

1923
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
The Morning Show
Succession

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES — DRAMA

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Emma Stone, The Curse
Helen Mirren, 1923
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Sarah Snook, Succession

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES — DRAMA

Brian Cox, Succession
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Dominic West, The Crown

BEST TELEVISION SERIES — MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Ted Lasso
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Barry
Only Murders in the Building
Jury Duty

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES — MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Elle Fanning, The Great
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES — MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

BEST TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

All the Light We Cannot See
Beef
Daisy Jones & The Six
Fargo
Fellow Travellers
Lessons in Chemistry

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Ali Wong, Beef
Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen, Love & Death
Juno Temple, Fargo
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & the Six

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Matt Bomer, Fellow Travellers
Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones & the Six
Steven Yeun, Beef
Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE ON TELEVISION

Abby Elliott, The Bear
Christina Ricci, Yellowjackets
Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
J. Smith-Cameron, Succession
Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE ON TELEVISION

Alan Ruck, Succession
Alexander Skarsgård, Succession
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
James Marsden, Jury Duty
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession

BEST PERFORMANCE IN STANDUP COMEDY ON TELEVISION

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact
Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes: I'm an Entertainer

The 2023 Golden Globes will be announced on Monday, January 8, Australian and New Zealand time, streaming on Stan in Australia. For further details, head to the awards' website.