The 2015 Golden Globe Awards Comedy Preview
It’s Golden Globes day! The country is only 24 hours away from talking about who won, who lost, who looked really drunk and who did hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler destroy in their monologue?
The 72nd annual Golden Globes Awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press will be given out tonight on NBC. Here’s a preview on what to look for in movie and television comedy tonight.
The big category for comedy fans at the Golden Globes is Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. The nominees are “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “Into the Woods”, “St. Vincent”, “Pride” and “Birdman”. “Birdman” has the most Golden Globe nominations this year with 7. But “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was voted best comedy movie on The Interrobang by our readers, so we’ll see which is the better predictor.
The nominations for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy are Michael Keaton for “Birdman”, Ralph Fiennes for “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, Bill Murray for “St. Vincent”, Joaquin Phoenix for “Inherent Vice” and Christoph Waltz for “Big Eyes”. Birdman has all the buzz on this one but if we were picking, Phoenix takes this category.
Looking at the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy category, the nominees are Amy Adams, “Big Eyes”, Quvenzhané Wallis, “Annie”, Emily Blunt, “Into the Woods”, Helen Mirren, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” and Julianne Moore, “Maps to the Stars”. This one is wide open and anybody’s guess.
The Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture categories only have one comedy representative each in the nominations, Edward Norton for “Birdman” for the supporting actor Golden Globe and Emma Stone, also for “Birdman” for Best Supporting Actress. Norton is up against fellow nominees, Robert Duvall for “The Judge”, Ethan Hawke for “Boyhood”, Mark Ruffalo for “Foxcatcher” and J.K. Simmons for “Whiplash”.
In her category, “Birdman” nominee, Emma Stone is competing against Patricia Arquette for “Boyhood”, Jessica Chastain for “A Most Violent Year”, Keira Knightley for “The Imitation Game” and Meryl Streep for “Into the Woods”, who is looking for her 9th Golden Globe win.
For Best Director of a Motion Picture, Alejandro González Iñárritu has one of the many nominations for “Birdman” this year and comedy director Wes Anderson is nominated for “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. Their fellow nominees include Ava DuVernay, “Selma”, David Fincher, “Gone Girl”, and Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”.
For Best Screenplay for a Motion Picture, “Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” are the only two comedy films up for this category. They face competition from dramatic screenplays from “Boyhood”, “Gone Girl” and “The Imitation Game”.
The Golden Globes awarded for comedy in television include Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy. The nominees include “Girls”, “Silicon Valley”, “Transparent”, “Jane the Virgin” and “Orange Is the New Black”.
Television comedy acting nominees in the Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy category are Edie Falco for “Nurse Jackie”, Lena Dunham for “Girls”, Gina Rodriguez for “Jane the Virgin”, Taylor Schilling, “Orange Is the New Black” and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for “Veep”.
On the actor side of this, for Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy, the nominees are Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”, Louis C.K., “Louie”, Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”, William H. Macy, “Shameless” and Ricky Gervais, “Derek”, who just announced that Derek will have a new one hour special on Netflix in April.
And the dark comedy series, “Fargo” is all over the TV mini-series nominations. It’s up for Best TV Movie or Miniseries against “True Detective”, “The Missing”, “The Normal Heart” and “Olive Kitteridge”.
Also in the mini-series acting categories, Fargo’s Allison Tolman is nominated for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie against Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”, Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman”, Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge” and Frances O’Connor, “The Missing”.
Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton are both nominated for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie for “Fargo” along with fellow nominees Mark Ruffalo for “The Normal Heart” and Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, both for “True Detective”.
Colin Hanks received a Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie nomination for the FX comedy, Fargo. Other nominees in this category are Bill Murray for “Olive Kitteridge”, Matt Bomer for “The Normal Heart”, Alan Cumming for “The Good Wife” and Jon Voight for “Ray Donovan”.
Nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie include comedy performances by Uzo Aduba in “Orange Is the New Black” and Allison Janney in “Mom”. The other nominees include Joanne Froggatt in “Downton Abbey”, Kathy Bates in “American Horror Story: Freak Show” and Michelle Monaghan in “True Detective”.
Presenting Golden Globe trophies tonight will be a strong lineup of past winners, nominees and performers including Robert Downey Jr., Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Amy Adams, Adrien Brody, Anna Faris, Kevin Hart, Salma Hayek, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum, Lily Tomlin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston, Jamie Dornan, Colin Firth, Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford, Bill Hader, Katherine Heigl, Dakota Johnson, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Seth Meyers, Lupita Nyong’o, Jeremy Renner, Meryl Streep, Vince Vaughn, and Kerry Washington.
The 72nd Golden Globe Awards is tonight starting at 8pm et on NBC.
