Golden Globes 2024: How to watch, who’s hosting and other key things to know

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The 2024 Golden Globes are simply across the nook, prepared to kick off awards season.

Well-known for its celebration of each movie and tv, the Globes additionally act as an early predictor for awards season contenders.

Here’s every part to know concerning the 81st Golden Globe Awards, scheduled to air on Sunday (7 January) on CBS.

How can I watch the Golden Globes?

US audiences can catch the ceremony, broadcast reside from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, starting at 8 pm ET/ 5 pm PT. There isn’t any reside broadcast within the UK.

The three-hour present could have a powerful lead-in since CBS is airing an NFL recreation instantly earlier than the Globes.

It will air on the CBS app and stream on Paramount+, however there’s an essential caveat. Only Paramount+ subscribers with the Showtime add-on shall be ready to watch the present reside. Otherwise, it’ll be accessible on the streaming platform on Monday (8 January), which UK subscribers can even have the opportunity to entry.

Who’s hosting the Golden Globes?

This yr’s ceremony shall be hosted by comic Jo Koy, who has headlined a number of Netflix specials and starred in final yr’s comedy movie Easter Sunday.

“We are thrilled to have Jo host the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards and bring his infectious energy and relatable humour to kick off Hollywood’s award season,” Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne mentioned final month. “We know Jo is bringing his A-game.”

Previous hosts embody Ricky Gervais, whose jokes have been notably caustic, the duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and final yr’s emcee, Jerrod Carmichael.

Who’s presenting the Golden Globes?

Amanda Seyfried, Angela Bassett, Gabriel Macht, George Lopez, Julia Garner, Justin Hartley, Michelle Yeoh, Patrick J Adams and Will Ferrell have been introduced as the primary batch of presenters, with extra to be revealed quickly.

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Golden Globe nominees

Barbie leads this yr with 9 nominations, adopted intently by Oppenheimer (eight).

The movies replicate one distinctive facet of the Globes – they break up the highest movie winners into two classes: drama and musical/comedy. With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer main the best way, it provides the present an opportunity to capitalise on the Barbenheimer craze that boosted theaters in 2023.

Films nominated for finest movement image drama embody Oppenheimer, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Celine Song’s Past Lives, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest.

In the perfect movement image musical or comedy class, Barbie was joined by Ben Affleck’s Air, Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Todd Haynes’ May December and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things.

Succession was the top-nominated tv program, with 9 nods together with for sequence stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin, adopted by Hulu’s The Bear and Only Murders within the Building, which have 5 nods apiece.

Find the full record of nominees right here.

What are the Globes identified for?

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

The present was touted as an A-list celebration whose hosts typically took a extra irreverent tone than their Academy counterparts. It additionally solely honoured the flashiest filmmaking classes – image, director, actors amongst them – which means no lengthy speeches from visible results supervisors or administrators of little-known shorts.

But the voting physique – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) – was a small group of round 87 members who wielded unbelievable affect within the business and typically accepted lavish presents and journey from studios and awards publicists keen to court docket favour and win votes.

Some years, the HFPA have been pilloried for nominating poorly reviewed movies with big-name expertise in hopes of getting them to the present – probably the most notorious being The Tourist, with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. In the previous decade, they’ve extra typically overlapped with the Oscars. The present additionally recognises tv.

Before the Los Angeles Times printed a 2021 bombshell report, which discovered that there have been zero Black members within the group, nobody within the business took a lot umbrage with who was voting on the awards. The present had turn out to be an essential a part of the Hollywood awards ecosystem, a platform for Oscar hopefuls and was, till lately, a dependable rankings draw. As of 2019, the printed was nonetheless pulling in almost 19 million viewers. Following its boycotted 2022 ceremony, it made its return to broadcast tv on NBC in 2023, with its smallest viewers ever of 6.3 million viewers.

Who votes on the Golden Globes?

The group nominating and voting for the awards is now made up of a extra various group of over 300 folks from world wide.

Additional reporting by Associated Press