Golden globe 2018: old friends and new faces

Golden globe 2018: old friends and new faces

Today, December 11, in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton Hotel has announced the nominees for the prestigious award «Golden globe», which is the second largest event of the film industry Oscars.

75th ceremony of awarding the prize will mark the beginning of the year and will be held January 7, 2018. It’ll be conducted by popular American actor and comedian Seth Meyers, is known for the show «Saturday night live». NBC will be broadcasting the event live, which will begin at 17:00 (Pacific time) or 20:00 (Eastern Standard time).

Candidates for the «Golden globes» selects a jury of over 90 journalists who are members of the Hollywood foreign press Association. In addition, over the years has become traced a certain pattern in who gets nominated for a Golden globe, and whose names were later heard in the list of candidates for the award «Oscar», the most coveted award of the film industry.

Most nominations in the category of a great movie gathered a drama Guillermo del Toro «water Shape»(The Shape of Water), claiming as many as 7 figurines. She is not too far behind the TV series «Big little lies» from stars team, is presented in 6 categories.

The main nomination of the award «Best drama», happy abundance of serious art on the most burning topics among which the acclaimed war drama Christopher Nolan’s «Dunkerque», the Steven Spielberg film «Secret dossier» (The Post), a drama about revenge, «Three of a Billboard on the border of Ebbing, Missouri» (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and of course, the film «water».

Golden globe well-known fact that among the feature films jury always selects the best drama and best Comedy or musical. In this category we see a picture of «the Trap» Jordan Saw the story about figure skating, «I, Tonya» Craig Gillespie Comedy about the relationship of mother and daughter «Lady Bird» Greta Gerwig, the musical «Greatest showman» Michael Gracey (with Hugh Jackman in the title role) and Comedy biographical film «Grief is the Creator of» James Franco.

The nominations also mentioned the names of top celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, which is just two projects: the foreign film in which she acted as producer, «First They Killed My Father» (Cambodia) and an animated film about Afghanistan «The Breadwinner».

In section TV dramas, to be honest, we won’t see anything new. Contenders is a drama series about the British monarchy, «the Crown», the ubiquitous fantasy Saga «Game of thrones», and scolding to shivers dystopia «the handmaid’s Tale», a fantastic series of «Very strange things» and the drama «This Is Us».

For the title of best Director will face the titans of cinema like Guillermo del Toro, Martin McDonagh, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg.

The title of the best foreign film can get the film «Dislike» by Andrei Zvyagintsev (Loveless, Russia), «Fantastic woman» (A Fantastic Woman, Chile), «On the limit» (In the Fade, Germany and France), the «Square» (The Square, Sweden, Germany, France), as well as already mentioned above, the painting «First they killed my father» (First They Killed My Father).

The full list of nominees can be found on the official website of the prize «Golden globe».

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