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Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place on January 7.

Selected categories

Best drama movie

Best comedy or musical movie

• Air

• American Fiction

• Barbie

• The Holdovers

• May December

• Poor Things

Female actor in a dramatic film

• Annette Bening, Nyad

• Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

• Carey Mulligan, Maestro

• Greta Lee, Past Lives

• Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

• Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall

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Male actor in a dramatic film

• Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

• Barry Keoghan, Saltburn

• Bradley Cooper, Maestro

• Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

• Colman Domingo, Rustin

• Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon

Female actor in a musical or comedy film

• Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves

• Emma Stone, Poor Things

• Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple

• Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings

• Margot Robbie, Barbie

• Natalie Portman, May December

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Male actor in a musical or comedy film

• Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

• Jaoquin Phoenix, Beau is Afraid

• Matt Damon, Air

• Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario

• Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

• Timothée Chalamet, Wonka

Female actor in a television drama

• Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

• Emma Stone, The Curse

• Helen Mirren, 1923

• Imelda Staunton, The Crown

• Keri Russell, The Diplomat

• Sarah Snook, Succession

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Male actor in a television drama

• Brian Cox, Succession

• Kieran Culkin, Succession

• Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

• Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

• Jeremy Strong, Succession

• Dominic West, The Crown

Female actor in a television comedy

• Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

• Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

• Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

• Elle Fanning, The Great

• Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building

• Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

Male actor in a television comedy

• Bill Hader, Barry

• Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building

• Jason Segel, Shrinking

• Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

• Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso

• Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

In addition to nominations for films, shows and actors, segmented between comedy/musical and drama, the 2024 show will have two new categories: cinematic and box office achievement and best stand-up comedian on television.

Analysts expect films like Barbie, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Poor Things and The Color Purple will be among the top nominees.

The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of awards season, with a new home on CBS.

And while to audiences it might look similar on the surface, it’s been tumultuous few years behind the scenes following a bombshell report in the Los Angeles Times.

The 2021 report found that there were no black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on the awards.

Stars and studios boycotted the Globes and NBC refused to air it in 2022 as a result.

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After the group added journalists of colour to its ranks and instituted other reforms to address ethical concerns, the show came back in January 2023 in a one-year probationary agreement with NBC. The network did not opt to renew.

In June, billionaire Todd Boehly was granted approval to dissolve the HFPA and reinvent the Golden Globes as a for-profit organisation.

Its assets were acquired by Boehly’s Eldridge Industries, along with Dick Clark Productions, a group that is owned by Penske Media whose assets also include Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone and Billboard.

In mid-November, CBS announced that it would air the ceremony on the network on January 7. It will also stream on Paramount+.

The Golden Globe Awards had long been one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars.

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The show was touted as a boozy, A-list party, whose hosts often took a more irreverent tone than their academy counterparts.

It also only honoured the flashiest filmmaking categories – picture, director, actors among them – meaning no long speeches from visual effects supervisors or directors of shorts no one has heard of.

But the voting body was a small group of around 87 members who wielded incredible influence in the industry and often accepted lavish gifts and travel from studios and awards publicists eager to court favour and win votes.

Some years, the HFPA were pilloried for nominating poorly reviewed films with big name talent with hopes of getting them to the show, the most infamous being The Tourist, with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.

In the past decade, they’ve more often overlapped with the Oscars. The show also recognises television.

Before the expose and public relations crisis though, no one in the industry took much umbrage with who was voting on the awards.

The show had become an important part of the Hollywood awards ecosystem, a platform for Oscar hopefuls and was, until recently, a reliable ratings draw.

As of 2019, it was still pulling in nearly 19 million viewers to the broadcast. This year, NBC’s Tuesday night broadcast got its smallest audience ever for a traditional broadcast, with 6.3 million viewers.

The group nominating and voting for the awards is now made up of a more diverse group of over 300 people from around the world.

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse