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Benjamin Lee
Lily Gladstone is one of the strongest frontrunners tonight, favourite to take home the Globe for best actress (drama) for her performance in Scorsese’s devastating Killers of the Flower Moon. She’s the first Native nominee in this category and could make more history very soon.
The Observer’s Mark Kermode spoke to her and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio over the weekend:
‘We didn’t have our leading ladies in our sweeping, tragic love stories like classic old Hollywood,’ Gladstone said. ‘So placing this incredible Indigenous cast in these roles that we’ve been excluded from in film history is very restorative. We had so much Osage input into Killers of the Flower Moon, and that really shaped everything you see on screen. I hope this will set a new precedent for people working with communities in Hollywood.’
Ellie Violet Bramley
This is not Helen Mirren’s first rodeo – she first attended the Globes in 1997 – and so it makes sense that she looks more comfortable on the red carpet than most people do on their sofa. The lilac and pink colour is suitably sweet for an awards season where Willy Wonka is a name on everyone’s lips. From the fuchsia lipstick to the pink metallic clutch, this is a wonderfully fun look that would not be suitable for a shrinking violet.
Please can someone tell me if that is a candy watch around her wrist? Whatever it is, it makes a nice contrast to the diamonds around her neck.
Ellie Violet Bramley
With not an infected zombie in sight, star of The Last of Us Bella Ramsey has still shown up to the red carpet in an outfit that looks like it would be brilliantly practical in a post-apocalyptic world. From the stompy boots to the no-nonsense jacket, this is awards ceremony dressing at its most fuss-free.
Benjamin Lee
On the red carpet, Kieran Culkin just said a Succession spin-off focused on his character would be a “horrible idea” but suggested that a Cousin Greg one might work instead.
Ellie Violet Bramley
One can only imagine what Elspeth, the frightfully posh character that Rosamund Pike plays in Saltburn, would make of this fashion-forward ensemble. While she took to the Globes red carpet last year in head-to-toe black, this year’s iteration is altogether more dramatic, more operatic and just a little bit gothic, too. What’s not to like?
Ellie Violet Bramley
Hi, Ellie from the Guardian’s fashion desk here. I hope that, wherever you are, you feel ready for some serious Hollywood pomp. Given this Golden Globes is the first major red carpet event since the end of the actors’ strike, it feels safe to say that we can expect lots of drama on the red carpet tonight. Hollywood won’t be able to look at itself in the mirror tomorrow if it wastes a perfectly good opportunity, after so long in hibernation, to ignite some fireworks, sartorially speaking. Expect to see some classic Hollywood glamour and some catwalk-worthy experimentalism. I am hoping for high-shine and high-volume but, for the love of Ken, please no more Barbie-pink.
It may also – we can but hope – prove a good night for vintage fashion. Imagine some of the best looks from previous Golden Globes red carpets came back for another spin. Anyone panning the archives would find plenty of red carpet gold. Think Julia Roberts in an oversized Giorgio Armani grey business suit in 1990, Kate Moss wearing a replica of a dress worn by Julie Christie in Shampoo in 1995, Beyoncé in Elie Saab in 2007 and Lupita Nyong’o caped in Ralph Lauren in 2014. Then there was Lady Gaga who, in 2019, gave her hair a purple rinse to match her Valentino couture gown; anyone game for a Dame Edna makeover now, five years on? Stranger things have happened.
Adrian Horton
The Globes anointed a new category this year, cinematic and box office achievement, to (controversially) appeal to a wider swath of viewers, and they could get them with the nomination of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie. The 34-year-old singer is expected to attend the ceremony, though who knows when – her new beau Travis Kelce plays the Los Angeles Rams across town an hour beforehand, and Swifties have provided many a breakdown on how she could potentially attend both. (Kelce, by all accounts, won’t make any afterparties as he’s travelling with his team.)
Swift has been nominated thrice prior for original songs, but The Eras Tour film could score her her first Golden Globes win. It’s the highest-grossing concert film of all time, after all, a box office phenomenon capturing the year’s pop cultural phenomenon, up against fellow blockbusters Barbie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Oppenheimer, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Super Mario Bros Movie.
Benjamin Lee
Here’s a reminder of tonight’s nominees, and we’ll be updating you as each award is announced:
Here we go again
Benjamin Lee
It always feels a little startling to welcome the Golden Globes so soon into the new year, an instant reminder that we’re still stuck in the previous one. It means that 2023’s dominating force of Barbenheimer, a pop phenomenon that cracked over $2bn at the global box office, will be making headlines once again with tonight’s set of nominations led by the two blockbuster movies.
They’ll compete in mostly separate genre categories alongside major players like Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, Maestro and The Holdovers. On the TV side, it’ll likely be a big night for the final season of Succession, with The Bear and Abbott Elementary also making a strong show.
It’s year two of the Nu Globes after a bowed out year following a flurry of controversy and year one of a new, expanded voting body that organisers claim to be the most diverse in Hollywood. Whether or not that will be reflected in the winners remains to be seen though, and after last year saw some major no-shows, all eyes will be on which A-listers have decided to let the Globes back into the fold. Stick with us for all of the big moments.
