Tuesday night will be the 80th Golden Globe Awards and the 31st to be televised on NBC. Will it also be the last on the network, or on some network?
That’s the question hanging over the 2023 Globes, the first since 1962 to take place on a Tuesday. A year after the Globes’ longtime network canceled the deal and refused to televise the 2022 show, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has another chance to show it has bounced back from a lack of diversity and ethical lapses that caused Hollywood to turn its back on him.
But it’s not a sign of confidence that the network has given the recently privatized HFPA a one-year contract and put the show on a quiet school night instead of the usual slightly boozy Sunday afternoon. The network is watching closely to see who shows up, who says what, and how much credibility the awards have in 2023.
Other changes: The Beverly Hilton won’t host wall-to-wall parties like it did in years past, and Tuesday night winners may show the influence of the more than 100 international critics who have been recruited not to join the HFPA but to serve as non-member voters and in the process double the number of voters.
That makes predicting the Globes harder than it was in the days when you just had to figure out the passions and blind spots of 80 or 90 Los Angeles journalists, full or part-time, for foreign outlets. Now they only make up half the voting body; for every voter in Los Angeles, there is someone else who lives in a foreign country and does not show up at HFPA press conferences or receptions.
Will that hurt the nominated films that are the most quintessentially American? (Elvis has never toured outside the US; will “Elvis” have trouble traveling, too?) And will actors who have publicly rejected the HFPA lose votes, or will the organization want to prove they’re above them? grievances awarding prizes to Tom? Cruise (who returned his Globes) for “Top Gun: Maverick” or Brendan Fraser (who has said he won’t be there) for “The Whale?”
These are our guesses, in a year in which who wins will certainly matter less than if the HFPA exits the program with some sense that it is on the mend.
MOVIE CATEGORIES
Best Film – Drama: “The Fabelmans” on “Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: “Everything everywhere, all at once” on “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Austin Butler for “Elvis” on Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama: Cate Blanchett for “Tar” on Viola Davis for “The Woman King”
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of inisherin” on Daniel Craig for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” on Margot Robbie for “Babylon”
Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” on Brendan Gleeson for “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon for “The Banshees of Inisherin” over Jamie Lee Curtis for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
best director: Steven Spielberg for “The Fabelmans” on Martin McDonagh for “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best screenplay: “The Banshees of Inisherin” on “Tar”
best original score: “The Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro” on “The Fabelmans”
best original song: “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” over “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Animated Feature: “Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro” on “Red Hot”
Best Foreign Language Film: “All quiet on the Western Front” for the “decision to leave”
TV CATEGORIES
Best Television Series – Drama: “The crown”
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy: “Abbott Elementary”
Best Limited or Anthology Series: “The White Lotus”
Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama: Jeff Bridges for “The Old Man”
Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama: Zendaya for “Euphoria”
Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Jeremy Allen White for “The Bear”
Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy: Fifth Brunson for “Abbott Elementary”
Outstanding Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series: Evan Peters for “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
Outstanding Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series: Amanda Seyfried for “Defection”
Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series: John Turturro for “Separation”
Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series: Elizabeth Debicki for “The Crown”
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series: Richard Jenkins for “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series: Aubrey Plaza for “The White Lotus”
THE BIGGEST QUESTION
Will NBC offer a contract to the HFPA after this year? Not
