'Emilia Perez' heads into Golden Globes as strong favorite

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1735874461889Emilia-Perez.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Karla Sofía Gascón in &#x27;Emilia Pérez&#x27;"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Karla Sofía Gascón in &#x27;Emilia Pérez&#x27; </span></span></span></div><p>LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood&#x27;s awards season heats up Sunday at the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical &quot;Emilia Perez&quot; -- about a Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a woman -- leading the charge.</p><p>Jacques Audiard&#x27;s genre-defying film earned 10 nominations, the most ever for a musical or comedy film, including for star transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon, who plays the title character, as well as co-stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.</p><p>&quot;Emilia Perez&quot; -- which is almost entirely in Spanish -- is hoping to throw down the gauntlet in the race to the Academy Awards, which will take place in early March.</p><p>&quot;The far and away favorite here going in has got to be &#x27;Emilia Perez,&#x27;&quot; Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond told AFP. &quot;I think it&#x27;s got the international thing going for it, and it just swept the European Film Awards.&quot;</p><p>The Golden Globes offer separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals -- widening the field of stars who will walk the red carpet, and also offering more options for Academy voters set to soon cast ballots for the Oscar nominations.</p><p>&quot;Emilia Perez&quot; started its march towards Hollywood glory at the Cannes film festival, where it won the Jury Prize.</p><p>Other nods for the film, which is streaming on Netflix after debuting in theaters, include best director, two entries for best original song, best score, best non-English language film, best screenplay, and best comedy or musical film.</p><p>It will compete for top musical-comedy honors with smash hit &quot;Wicked,&quot; Cannes darling &quot;Anora,&quot; tennis love-triangle film &quot;Challengers,&quot; Jesse Eisenberg&#x27;s &quot;A Real Pain,&quot; and body horror film &quot;The Substance&quot; starring Demi Moore.</p><p>&quot;Wicked,&quot; the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earned four nominations, including for pop sensation Ariana Grande as the bubbly pink-clad Glinda and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo as the green-skinned Elphaba.</p><p>Hammond said he believed &quot;Wicked&quot; would be at a &quot;disadvantage&quot; at the Globes, given its lack of nominations in key categories, but he favors Erivo to take home the prize for best lead actress.</p><p>She will compete with Gascon, &quot;Anora&quot; star Mikey Madison, Amy Adams (&quot;Nightbitch&quot;), Moore and &quot;Challengers&quot; star Zendaya.</p><p>Hammond calls &quot;The Substance&quot; his dark horse of the season, and says its message about the perils of aging in Hollywood could resonate with voters.</p><div><strong>&#x27;Brutalist&#x27; vs &#x27;Conclave&#x27;</strong></div><p>The Globes are in year two of a revamp, following a Los Angeles Times expose in 2021 that showed that the awards&#x27; voting body -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association -- had no Black members.</p><p>Now under new ownership, and with the HFPA disbanded, organizers are hoping to capitalize on a ratings bump registered last January, and perhaps even burnish the gala&#x27;s status as a predictor of Oscars success.</p><p>Hammond says the reorganization shines through with nominees like &quot;The Brutalist,&quot; starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States.</p><p>The Globes are &quot;definitely more international. They&#x27;re more open to different kinds of movies,&quot; he said, citing &quot;The Brutalist&quot; -- which earned seven nominations, behind &quot;Emilia Perez&quot; -- as an example.</p><p>It will do battle with papal drama &quot;Conclave,&quot; a fictionalized account of high-stakes Holy See horse-trading, depicting how the death of a pope sends the church&#x27;s various factions into battle for its future. It is based on a novel by Robert Harris.</p><p>&quot;Conclave&quot; star Ralph Fiennes earned one of the film&#x27;s six nominations.</p><p>The two favorites will compete for the best drama prize with Bob Dylan biopic &quot;A Complete Unknown,&quot; sci-fi epic &quot;Dune: Part Two,&quot; &quot;Nickel Boys,&quot; and &quot;September 5,&quot; a look at the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis from the media perspective.</p><p>&quot;All of this is happening three days before the Oscars ballots go live,&quot; Hammond said. &quot;So this really could be influential in a tight year where these things could go any which way.&quot;</p><p>The Globes also honor the best in television, with comedy &quot;The Bear&quot; earning five nominations, and historical epic &quot;Shogun&quot; and comedy &quot;Only Murders in the Building&quot; tied at four.</p><p>Comedian Nikki Glaser will host Sunday&#x27;s gala in Beverly Hills.</p><p>Here are the nominees in key categories for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>FILM</strong></div><div><strong>Best film, drama</strong></div><p>&quot;The Brutalist&quot;</p><p>&quot;A Complete Unknown&quot;</p><p>&quot;Conclave&quot;</p><p>&quot;Dune: Part Two&quot;</p><p>&quot;Nickel Boys&quot;</p><p>&quot;September 5&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best film, musical or comedy</strong></div><p>&quot;Anora&quot;</p><p>&quot;Challengers&quot;</p><p>&quot;Emilia Perez&quot;</p><p>&quot;A Real Pain&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Substance&quot;</p><p>&quot;Wicked&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best actor, drama</strong></div><p>Adrien Brody, &quot;The Brutalist&quot;</p><p>Timothee Chalamet, &quot;A Complete Unknown&quot;</p><p>Daniel Craig, &quot;Queer&quot;</p><p>Colman Domingo, &quot;Sing Sing&quot;</p><p>Ralph Fiennes, &quot;Conclave&quot;</p><p>Sebastian Stan, &quot;The Apprentice&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best actress, drama</strong></div><p>Pamela Anderson, &quot;The Last Showgirl&quot;</p><p>Angelina Jolie, &quot;Maria&quot;</p><p>Nicole Kidman, &quot;Babygirl&quot;</p><p>Tilda Swinton, &quot;The Room Next Door&quot;</p><p>Fernanda Torres, &quot;I&#x27;m Still Here&quot;</p><p>Kate Winslet, &quot;Lee&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best actor, musical or comedy</strong></div><p>Jesse Eisenberg, &quot;A Real Pain&quot;</p><p>Hugh Grant, &quot;Heretic&quot;</p><p>Gabriel LaBelle, &quot;Saturday Night&quot;</p><p>Jesse Plemons, &quot;Kinds of Kindness&quot;</p><p>Glen Powell, &quot;Hit Man&quot;</p><p>Sebastian Stan, &quot;A Different Man&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best actress, musical or comedy</strong></div><p>Amy Adams, &quot;Nightbitch&quot;</p><p>Cynthia Erivo, &quot;Wicked&quot;</p><p>Karla Sofia Gascon, &quot;Emilia Perez&quot;</p><p>Mikey Madison, &quot;Anora&quot;</p><p>Demi Moore, &quot;The Substance&quot;</p><p>Zendaya, &quot;Challengers&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best supporting actor</strong></div><p>Yura Borisov, &quot;Anora&quot;</p><p>Kieran Culkin, &quot;A Real Pain&quot;</p><p>Edward Norton, &quot;A Complete Unknown&quot;</p><p>Guy Pearce, &quot;The Brutalist&quot;</p><p>Jeremy Strong, &quot;The Apprentice&quot;</p><p>Denzel Washington, &quot;Gladiator II&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best supporting actress</strong></div><p>Selena Gomez, &quot;Emilia Perez&quot;</p><p>Ariana Grande, &quot;Wicked&quot;</p><p>Felicity Jones, &quot;The Brutalist&quot;</p><p>Margaret Qualley, &quot;The Substance&quot;</p><p>Isabella Rossellini, &quot;Conclave&quot;</p><p>Zoe Saldana, &quot;Emilia Perez&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best director</strong></div><p>Jacques Audiard, &quot;Emilia Perez&quot;</p><p>Sean Baker, &quot;Anora&quot;</p><p>Edward Berger, &quot;Conclave&quot;</p><p>Brady Corbet, &quot;The Brutalist&quot;</p><p>Coralie Fargeat, &quot;The Substance&quot;</p><p>Payal Kapadia, &quot;All We Imagine as Light&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best non-English language film</strong></div><p>&quot;All We Imagine as Light&quot;</p><p>&quot;Emilia Perez&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Girl with the Needle&quot;</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m Still Here&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Seed of the Sacred Fig&quot;</p><p>&quot;Vermiglio&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best cinematic and box office achievement:</strong></div><p>&quot;Alien: Romulus&quot;</p><p>&quot;Beetlejuice Beetlejuice&quot;</p><p>&quot;Deadpool &amp; Wolverine&quot;</p><p>&quot;Gladiator II&quot;</p><p>&quot;Inside Out 2&quot;</p><p>&quot;Twisters&quot;</p><p>&quot;Wicked&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Wild Robot&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best animated feature</strong></div><p>&quot;Flow&quot;</p><p>&quot;Inside Out 2&quot;</p><p>&quot;Memoir of a Snail&quot;</p><p>&quot;Moana 2&quot;</p><p>&quot;Wallace &amp; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Wild Robot&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>TELEVISION </strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best drama series</strong></div><p>&quot;The Day of the Jackal&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Diplomat&quot;</p><p>&quot;Mr &amp; Mrs Smith&quot;</p><p>&quot;Shogun&quot;</p><p>&quot;Slow Horses&quot;</p><p>&quot;Squid Game&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best drama actor</strong></div><p>Donald Glover, &quot;Mr &amp; Mrs Smith&quot;</p><p>Jake Gyllenhaal, &quot;Presumed Innocent&quot;</p><p>Gary Oldman, &quot;Slow Horses&quot;</p><p>Eddie Redmayne, &quot;The Day of the Jackal&quot;</p><p>Hiroyuki Sanada, &quot;Shogun&quot;</p><p>Billy Bob Thornton, &quot;Landman&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best drama actress</strong></div><p>Kathy Bates, &quot;Matlock&quot;</p><p>Emma D&#x27;Arcy, &quot;House of the Dragon&quot;</p><p>Maya Erskine, &quot;Mr &amp; Mrs Smith&quot;</p><p>Keira Knightley, &quot;Black Doves&quot;</p><p>Keri Russell, &quot;The Diplomat&quot;</p><p>Anna Sawai, &quot;Shogun&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best musical or comedy series</strong></div><p>&quot;Abbott Elementary&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Bear&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Gentlemen&quot;</p><p>&quot;Hacks&quot;</p><p>&quot;Nobody Wants This&quot;</p><p>&quot;Only Murders in the Building&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best musical or comedy actor</strong></div><p>Adam Brody, &quot;Nobody Wants This&quot;</p><p>Ted Danson, &quot;A Man on the Inside&quot;</p><p>Steve Martin, &quot;Only Murders in the Building&quot;</p><p>Jason Segel, &quot;Shrinking&quot;</p><p>Martin Short, &quot;Only Murders in the Building&quot;</p><p>Jeremy Allen White, &quot;The Bear&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best musical or comedy actress</strong></div><p>Kristen Bell, &quot;Nobody Wants This&quot;</p><p>Quinta Brunson, &quot;Abbott Elementary&quot;</p><p>Ayo Edebiri, &quot;The Bear&quot;</p><p>Selena Gomez, &quot;Only Murders in the Building&quot;</p><p>Kathryn Hahn, &quot;Agatha All Along&quot;</p><p>Jean Smart, &quot;Hacks&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best limited series or TV movie</strong></div><p>&quot;Baby Reindeer&quot;</p><p>&quot;Disclaimer&quot;</p><p>&quot;Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Penguin&quot;</p><p>&quot;Ripley&quot;</p><p>&quot;True Detective: Night Country&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best limited series or TV movie actor</strong></div><p>Colin Farrell, &quot;The Penguin&quot;</p><p>Richard Gadd, &quot;Baby Reindeer&quot;</p><p>Kevin Kline, &quot;Disclaimer&quot;</p><p>Cooper Koch, &quot;Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story&quot;</p><p>Ewan McGregor, &quot;A Gentleman in Moscow&quot;</p><p>Andrew Scott, &quot;Ripley&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best limited series or TV movie actress</strong></div><p>Cate Blanchett, &quot;Disclaimer&quot;</p><p>Jodie Foster, &quot;True Detective: Night Country&quot;</p><p>Cristin Milioti, &quot;The Penguin&quot;</p><p>Sofia Vergara, &quot;Griselda&quot;</p><p>Naomi Watts, &quot;Feud: Capote vs the Swans&quot;</p><p>Kate Winslet, &quot;The Regime&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Best performance in stand-up comedy on television:</strong></div><p>Jamie Foxx, &quot;Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was&quot;</p><p>Nikki Glaser, &quot;Nikki Glaser: Someday You&#x27;ll Die&quot;</p><p>Seth Meyers, &quot;Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking&quot;</p><p>Adam Sandler, &quot;Adam Sandler: Love You&quot;</p><p>Ali Wong, &quot;Ali Wong: Single Lady&quot;</p><p>Ramy Youssef, &quot;Ramy Youssef: More Feelings&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><em>© Agence France-Presse</em></div>

<p>Hollywood's awards season heats up Sunday at the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical 'Emilia Perez' -- about a Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a woman -- leading the charge.</p>

Hollywood's awards season heats up Sunday at the Golden Globes, with surreal narco-thriller musical 'Emilia Perez' -- about a Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a woman -- leading the charge.

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