Golden Globes Nominations 2024: Our Predictions, and Winners

The 81st Golden Globe awards, returning after two years, saw a few predictables make its way to its categories. Nobody is surprised that HBO’s Succession, arguably its biggest show after Game of Thrones which brought the obsession with ‘monoculture’ back, is a part of several categories — the show, and its cast, are brilliant. Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, a French film, understandably garnered several nods as well. So thrilled was our team with this film that one thought “its script deserves its own church”, and the other, only half-jokingly, remarked that it's a once in a lifetime movie. 

Here is the list of nominations of this year’s Golden Globes. We have highlighted our favourites from each category in bold, and as a bonus, also peppered this list with our critical observances, biases and, infrequently, our gushing. We had initially published this list a day before the awards to detail the categories, but we have updated this to include the winners in every category.

Best Motion Picture, Drama

Oppenheimer (Amazon Prime Video)

Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+)

Maestro (Netflix)

Past Lives (Lionsgate Play)

The Zone of Interest 

Anatomy of a Fall 

From the bottom of our heart: Anatomy of a Fall is a film that justifies every second of its runtime, with acting performances that will give you actual chills. In the words of Harry Styles, this is a movie that “feels like a movie”. In the very best way.

THE WINNER: Oppenheimer

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy

Barbie (JioCinema)

Poor Things 

American Fiction 

The Holdovers 

May December 

Air (Amazon Prime Video)

FC note: Emma Stone is brilliant in the avatar of a woman-child in Poor Things. There are those who have rendered Poor Things’ depiction of sexual agency as questionable in some territories, it is nonetheless one of the most potent portrayals of female sexuality in the last few years.

THE WINNER: Poor Things 

Best Motion Picture, Animated 

The Boy and the Heron 

Elemental (Disney+Hotstar)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (JioCinema)

Suzume 

Wish (Disney+Hotstar)

Our bias: Makoto Shinkai’s galaxy-brained film with flamingo-pink skies, and a young girl navigating the length and breadth of earthquake-ravaged Japan is arguably his best film. 

THE WINNER: The Boy and the Heron 

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Barbie (JioCinema)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney+Hotstar)

John Wick: Chapter 4 (Amazon Prime Video)

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Amazon Prime Video)

Oppenheimer (Amazon Prime Video)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (JioCinema)

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour 

Goes without saying: Barbie boasts a worldwide collection of over $1.44 billion, we fail to imagine how another film could possibly beat it in this category.

THE WINNER: Barbie

Best Picture, Non-English Language 

Anatomy of a Fall  — France

Fallen Leaves — Finland

Io Capitano  — Italy

Past Lives — United States

Society of the Snow — Spain

The Zone of Interest — United Kingdom

From the bottom of our heart: While not available online at the moment, we must insist you keep Fallen Leaves on your radar. The film is a gentle, and a funny reminder that love can be as simple as we need it to be.

THE WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama 

Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall

Annette Bening — Nyad

Greta Lee — Past Lives

Cailee Spaeny — Priscilla

Honourable mention: Cailee Spaeny is a revelation as Priscilla, lacing her performance with a quiet poise and maturity. We look forward to what she does next.

THE WINNER: Lily Gladstone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama 

Bradley Cooper — Maestro

Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer

Leonardo DiCaprio — Killers of the Flower Moon

Colman Domingo — Rustin

Andrew Scott — All of Us Strangers

Barry Keoghan — Saltburn

Honourable mention: Barry Keoghan in Saltburn is absolutely unhinged in his portrait of a man obsessed. Good luck getting The Bathtub Scene out of your head anytime soon.

THE WINNER: Cillian Murphy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy 

Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple

Jennifer Lawrence – No Hard Feelings

Natalie Portman – May December

Alma Pöysti – Fallen Leaves

Margot Robbie – Barbie

Emma Stone – Poor Things

THE WINNER: Emma Stone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Nicolas Cage — Dream Scenario

Timothée Chalamet — Wonka

Matt Damon — Air

Paul Giamatti — The Holdovers

Joaquin Phoenix — Beau Is Afraid

Jeffrey Wright — American Fiction

Honourable mention: Casting Nicolas Cage as a professor who unwittingly gets catapulted into fame for a bizarre reason, and is then terrifyingly brought down with the same flick of randomness, was a masterstroke.

THE WINNER: Paul Giamatti

Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture 

Emily Blunt — Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple

Jodie Foster — Nyad

Julianne Moore — May December

Rosamund Pike — Saltburn

Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers

THE WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture 

Willem Dafoe — Poor Things

Robert DeNiro — Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. — Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling — Barbie

Charles Melton — May December

Mark Ruffalo — Poor Things

FC note: Please accommodate our clear enthusiasm for this category.

THE WINNER: Robert Downey Jr.

Best Director, Motion Picture

Bradley Cooper — Maestro

Greta Gerwig — Barbie

Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things

Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer

Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon

Celine Song — Past Lives

THE WINNER: Christopher Nolan

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture 

Barbie — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach

Poor Things — Tony McNamara

Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan

Killers of the Flower Moon — Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese

Past Lives — Celine Song

Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

THE WINNER: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

Best Original Score, Motion Picture 

Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer

Jerskin Fendrix — Poor Things

Robbie Robertson — Killers of the Flower Moon

Mica Levi — The Zone of Interest

Daniel Pemberton — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Joe Hisaishi — The Boy and the Heron

THE WINNER: Ludwig Göransson

Best Original Song, Motion Picture 

Barbie — What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish and Finneas

Barbie — Dance the Night by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt

She Came to Me — Addicted to Romance by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa

The Super Mario Bros. Movie — Peaches by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, and John Spiker

Barbie — I’m Just Ken by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt

Rustin — Road to Freedom by Lenny Kravitz

Take aside a moment: To acknowledge that Ryan Gosling in ‘I’m Just Ken’ is “sublime!”

THE WINNER: Barbie — What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish and Finneas

Best Television Series, Drama 

1923 (JioCinema)

The Crown (Netflix)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

The Last of Us (JioCinema)

The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Succession (JioCinema)

THE WINNER: Succession

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy 

The Bear (Disney+Hotstar)

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Abbott Elementary (Disney+Hotstar)

Jury Duty (Amazon Prime Video)

Only Murders in the Building (Disney+Hotstar)

Barry (Jio Cinema)

THE WINNER: The Bear

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 

Beef (Netflix)

Lessons in Chemistry (Apple TV+)

Daisy Jones & the Six (Amazon Prime Video)

All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)

Fellow Travelers

Fargo

THE WINNER: Beef

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama 

Helen Mirren — 1923

Bella Ramsey — The Last of Us

Keri Russell — The Diplomat

Sarah Snook — Succession

Imelda Staunton — The Crown

Emma Stone — The Curse

THE WINNER: Sarah Snook

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama 

Pedro Pascal — The Last of Us

Kieran Culkin — Succession

Jeremy Strong — Succession

Brian Cox — Succession

Gary Oldman — Slow Horses

Dominic West — The Crown

THE WINNER: Kieran Culkin

Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy 

Ayo Edebiri — The Bear

Natasha Lyonne — Poker Face

Quinta Brunson — Abbott Elementary

Rachel Brosnahan — The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Selena Gomez — Only Murders in the Building

Elle Fanning – The Great

THE WINNER: Ayo Edebiri

Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy 

Bill Hader — Barry

Steve Martin — Only Murders in the Building

Martin Short — Only Murders in the Building

Jason Segel — Shrinking

Jason Sudeikis — Ted Lasso

Jeremy Allen White — The Bear

If we had to pick one: Yes, chef. Enough said.

The one they missed: Harrison Ford in Shrinking is exponentially funnier than Jason Segel. For one, among many reasons, he insistently uses the term “rawdog” incorrectly.

THE WINNER: Jeremy Allen White

Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 

Riley Keough — Daisy Jones & the Six

Brie Larson — Lessons in Chemistry

Elizabeth Olsen — Love and Death

Juno Temple — Fargo

Rachel Weisz — Dead Ringers

Ali Wong — Beef

From the bottom of our heart: Rachel Weisz’s performances as the questionable twins Elliot Mantle and Beverly Mantle are simply too delicious for us to not root for her.

THE WINNER: Ali Wong

Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

Matt Bomer — Fellow Travelers

Sam Claflin — Daisy Jones & the Six

Jon Hamm — Fargo

Woody Harrelson — White House Plumbers

David Oyelowo — Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Steven Yeun — Beef

THE WINNER: Steven Yeun

Best Supporting Actress, Television 

Elizabeth Debicki — The Crown

Abby Elliott — The Bear

Christina Ricci — Yellowjackets

J. Smith-Cameron — Succession

Meryl Streep — Only Murders in the Building

Hannah Waddingham — Ted Lasso

From the bottom of our (very biased) heart: If Meryl Streep doesn’t win in this category, we will revolt. No joke. This is a threat.

THE WINNER: Elizabeth Debicki

Best Supporting Actor, Television 

Billy Crudup — The Morning Show

Matthew Macfadyen — Succession

James Marsden — Jury Duty

Ebon Moss-Bachrach — The Bear

Alan Ruck — Succession

Alexander Skarsgård — Succession

THE WINNER: Matthew Macfadyen

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy or Television

Ricky Gervais — Ricky Gervais: Armageddon

Trevor Noah — Trevor Noah: Where Was I

Chris Rock — Chris Rock: Selective Outrage

Amy Schumer — Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact

Sarah Silverman — Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

Wanda Sykes — Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer

The one they missed: We don’t know why Baby J by John Mulaney wasn’t nominated in this category. It was one of the most visceral and morbidly funny stand-up experiences of the last year.

THE WINNER: Ricky Gervais: Armageddon