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Golden Globe nominations will be announced on Sunday. Here are the favourites

AFP | By, Los Angeles
Dec 10, 2016 04:24 PM IST

Nominations for the Golden Globes will be unveiled Monday with critics expecting musical La La Land to lead the pack ahead of Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea and Lion.

Nominations for the Golden Globes will be unveiled Monday with critics expecting musical La La Land to lead the pack ahead of Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea and Lion.

La La Land is scheduled for a December 16 release in India.
La La Land is scheduled for a December 16 release in India.

In a departure from last year’s awards calendar, the announcements come before the influential Screen Actors Guild nominations, making them the first major bellwether of momentum going into the Oscars race.

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The Globe nominations, set to be made at the crack of dawn in Beverly Hills, are decided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a group of entertainment journalists who are wined and dined by publicists.

There has been controversy in the past over the category placement of films, with last year’s inclusion of The Martian and Joy in comedy/musical raising eyebrows.

But awards prediction site Gold Derby has Damien Chazelle’s La La Land -- uncontroversially both a musical and a romantic comedy -- comfortably in the lead in several races.

“Normally the Globe voters like to spread the wealth among a lot of different films, but I could honestly see it winning the film award and for Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone,” managing director Chris Beachum told AFP.

“It’s got a very good shot at ‘directing’ and maybe the score or song categories -- it could do really well.”

Experts say Kenneth Lonergan’s unflinching Manchester by the Sea, which has won acclaim for its central performance by Casey Affleck, has been getting the most recent attention on the drama side.

Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck in a still from Manchester by the Sea.
Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck in a still from Manchester by the Sea.

Another frontrunner is Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age story Moonlight, with cast members Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali in with a shout for acting nominations.

Lion, Garth Davis’s drama about a teenager adopted by an Australian family who searches for his long-lost blood relatives using Google Earth, is also expected to earn several nominations, including in acting for Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman.

The Globes will be the year’s first big test of Hollywood’s tolerance of scandal, with Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation seen as firm awards material until news emerged of a historical acquittal over rape allegations by a woman who ended up committing suicide.

“Will they separate the art from the artist? Will the film be able to stand on its own or will the very mixed reviews of it sink its chances?” writes Eric Anderson of the AwardsWatch.com blog.

Denzel Washington, nominated on seven occasions, looks a good bet to earn a first directing nomination for Fences but faces competition from Silence director Martin Scorsese who won in 2012 for Hugo.

Emily Blunt could get a sixth acting nomination for The Girl on the Train while French screen siren Isabelle Huppert has turned heads with her commanding lead in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle.

Emily Blunt stars as an alcoholic woman embroiled in a murder mystery in The Girl on the Train.
Emily Blunt stars as an alcoholic woman embroiled in a murder mystery in The Girl on the Train.

Viola Davis (Fences), Ruth Negga (Loving) and Natalie Portman (Jackie) are all strong contenders for this category, however.

Among the television prizes, FX’s Atlanta, about two cousins trying to make it big in hip hop, looks a good bet for best musical/comedy after earning acclaim for its ten-episode debut season in the fall.

Donald Glover’s Atlanta was a highlight among 2016 comedy TV shows.
Donald Glover’s Atlanta was a highlight among 2016 comedy TV shows.

HBO black comedy Divorce, should also be in the running, as should its star Sarah Jessica Parker, who already has four Golden Globes for Sex in the City.

The 74th Golden Globe Awards will air on NBC live coast-to-coast from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 8, with talk show host Jimmy Fallon presenting.

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