The Golden Globes brought the awards season back to life, but the new year has started with a series of nagging doubts over whether reanimating it was a good idea. On Wednesday, box office hits Barbie and Oppenheimer mirrored their big summers with four nominations each for Hollywood’s Screen Actors Guild awards. At the same time, the final season of Succession they led to TV nominations.
Margot Robbie, who won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for her performance in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, is one of the top contenders in the category again. She’ll be up against Juliette Binoche (The Taste of Things), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Origin), Helen Mirren (Golda), and Julia Roberts (Leave the World Behind).
Oppenheimer, a psychological thriller from director Christopher Nolan, is another major player in the movie races with six nods. The movie has already set records as the highest-grossing domestic debut for a film directed by a woman, and it is the fourth-highest launch ever for a non-sequel worldwide. It also has the highest gross of any film opening in China.
Other top contenders include Michael Mann’s Ferrari (makeup and hairstyling and sound), James Mangold’s chaotic cowboy drama Yellowstone (music and score), Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (production design and costume design), and Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born (screenplay).
In the TV categories, NBC’s This Is Us led all nominated series with seven. Succession and The Bear followed with nine nominations each. The last season of HBO’s Succession won the best television drama Golden Globe in 2021 and now has nine nods for the upcoming race. Sarah Snook won a Globe for her role in the series and is up against co-star Kieran Culkin, who has two nods for his work as Shiv Roy.
As the Writers Guild of America continues its strike, many members have joined their counterparts in the Directors Guild of America on the picket line. Some have even talked about going on a hunger strike. But can the two sides come together and reach a deal? We talk to a writer and director who has been on both sides of the conflict. We ask him about the history of the strikes, why some say this could last long, and how he thinks it can be resolved. He joins the show from Los Angeles.