A Look At The 2021 Golden Globes

Amy-Grace Shapiro, Multimedia Photo Editor

As February comes to a close, the televised award ceremonies commence, starting with the Golden Globes. For the 78th consecutive year, NBC will broadcast the Golden Globes award show to the public on Feb. 28 at 8:00 p.m. EST

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of around 90 international journalists based in California, presents the Golden Globe Awards. Since the beginning of the show in 1944, HFPA has given awards for excellence in international and American film and American television.

For this year’s program, nominations for the various accolades which range from best motion picture to best actress were announced Feb. 3 on the TODAY show by previous winners Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson.  

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, organizers have planned the event as not only a virtual affair, but a bicoastal one, too. Four-time hosts and comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will announce the winning recipients from two separate locations. Fey plans to tune in from Manhattan, New York in the Rainbow Room, while Poehler has prepared to host from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California.

In addition to the regular presentations, the show plans to mention other special people, including 15-time nominee and seven-time winner Jane Fonda and television trendsetter Norman Lear

Full list of nominations include:

 

Television Shows

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy

Don Cheadle – “Black Monday

Nicholas Hoult – “The Great

Eugene Levy – “Schitt’s Creek

Jason Sudekis – “Ted Lasso

Ramy Youssef – “Ramy

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy

Lily Collins – “Emily in Paris

Kaley Cuoco – “The Flight Attendant

Elle Fanning – “The Great

Jane Levy – “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Catherine O’Hara – “Schitt’s Creek

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series Drama

Jason Bateman – “Ozark

Josh O’Connor – “The Crown

Bob Odenkirk – “Better Call Saul

Al Pacino – “Hunters

Matthew Rhys – “Perry Mason

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series Drama

Olivia Colman – “The Crown

Jodie Comer – “Killing Eve

Emma Corrin – “The Crown

Laura Linney – “Ozark

Sarah Paulson – “Ratched

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Bryan Cranston – “Your Honor

Jeff Daniels – “The Comey Rule

Hugh Grant – “The Undoing

Mark Ruffalo – “I Know This Much is True

Ethan Hawke – “The Good Lord Bird

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Cate Blanchett – “Mrs. America”

Daisy Edgar-Jones – “Normal People

Shira Haas – “Unorthodox

Nicole Kidman – “The Undoing

Anya Taylor-Joy – “The Queen’s Gambit

 

Best Television Series Drama

The Crown

Lovecraft Country

The Mandalorian

Ozark

Ratched

 

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Normal People

The Queen’s Gambit

Small Axe

The Undoing

Unorthodox

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Helena Bonham Carter – “The Crown

Julia Garner – “Ozark

Annie Murphy – “Schitt’s Creek

Cynthia Nixon – “Ratched

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

John Boyega – “Small Axe

Brendan Gleeson – “The Comey Rule

Daniel Levy – “Schitt’s Creek

Jim Parsons – “Hollywood

Donald Sutherland – “The Undoing

 

Best Television Series Musical or Comedy

Emily in Paris

The Flight Attendant

Schitt’s Creek

The Great

Ted Lasso

 

Film 

Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Hamilton

Music

Palm Springs

The Prom

 

Best Motion Picture Drama

The Father

Mank

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

Best Motion Picture Foreign Language

Another Round,” Denmark

La Llorona,” Guatemala

The Life Ahead,” Italy

Minari,” USA

Two of Us,” France/USA

 

Best Screenplay Motion Picture

Emerald Fennell – “Promising Young Woman

Jack Fincher – “Mank

Aaron Sorkin – “The Trial of the Chicago 7

Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton – “The Father

Chloe Zhao – “Nomadland

 

Best Original Song Motion Picture

“Fight for You” – “Judas and the Black Messiah

“Hear My Voice” – “The Trial of the Chicago 7

“IO SI (Seen)” – “The Life Ahead

“Speak Now” – “One Night in Miami

“Tigers & Tweed” – “The United States vs. Billie Holiday

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Sacha Baron Cohen – “The Trial of the Chicago 7

Daniel Kaluuya – “Judas and the Black Messiah

Jared Leto – “The Little Things

Bill Murray – “On the Rocks

Leslie Odom, Jr. – “One Night in Miami

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Glenn Close – “Hillbilly Elegy

Olivia Colman – “The Father

Jodie Foster – “The Mauritanian

Amanda Seyfried – “Mank

Helena Zengel – “News of the World

 

Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Sacha Baron Cohen – “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

James Corden – “The Prom

Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Hamilton

Dev Patel – “The Personal History of David Copperfield”

Andy Samberg – “Palm Springs

 

Best Motion Picture Animated

The Croods: A New Age

Onward

Over the Moon

Soul

Wolfwalkers

 

Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama

Chadwick Boseman, – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Riz Ahmed – “The Sound of Metal

Anthony Hopkins – “The Father

Gary Oldman – “Mank

Tahar Rahim – “The Mauritanian

 

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama

Viola Davis – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Andra Day – “The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Vanessa Kirby – “Pieces of a Woman

Frances McDormand – “Nomadland

Carey Mulligan – “Promising Young Woman

 

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Maria Bakalova – “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Kate Hudson – “Music

Michelle Pfeiffer – “French Exit

Rosamund Pike – “I Care A Lot

Anya Taylor-Joy – “Emma

 

Best Actor in a Motion Picture; Musical or Comedy

Sacha Baron Cohen – “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

James Corden – “The Prom

Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Hamilton

Dev Patel – “The Personal History of David Copperfield

Andy Samberg – “Palm Springs

 

Best Director; Motion Picture

David Fincher – “Mank

Regina King – “One Night in Miami

Aaron Sorkin – “The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chloe Zhao – “Nomadland

Emerald Fennell – “Promising Young Woman

 

Best Original Score

The Midnight Sky

Tenet

News of the World

Mank

Although the ceremony normally airs in early January, the pandemic has delayed production. This has led to  rising tensions between competing award shows that began in June 2020, when the announcement of the postponed Oscars’s date, Apr. 25, 2021, became public. With that, the Golden Globes took the original Oscars air date.