Golden Globes Nominations 2021 Biggest Snubs & Surprises

Golden Globes Nominations 2021: Biggest Snubs & Surprises

Each year, the Golden Globes set the tone for award season. But in such an unconventional year for film, the 2021 nominations were full of surprises.

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Each year, the Golden Globes kick off award season with their extensive list of nominees, ensuring plenty of surprises and snubs along the way. The awards show often acts as a precursor to the Academy Awards, although their respective nominations are not always mirror images of one another. Because 2020 was such an unconventional year for both TV and film, this year’s Golden Globe nominees proved especially surprising.

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered the course of 2020 for just about every industry, but the entertainment industry saw itself particularly affected. Movie theaters across shut down across the United States and abroad, forcing long delays for highly anticipated films. The impact was so great that Warner Bros. has already decided to release the entirety of its 2021 slate on HBO Max, as the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 still looms. Nevertheless, the past year did still offer an intriguing bunch of films and television shows, and the Golden Globes will be the first of many high-profile awards shows to recognize the best of the best.

Of course, even with a surprisingly impressive 2020 in the books, the Golden Globes’ nominations included plenty of snubs and surprises, some good and some bad. Here is everything you need to know about what the Golden Globes got right and what they got wrong, as well as how these nominations could impact the all-important Oscars.

Better Call Saul Not Nominated for Best Drama

Better Call Saul has been consistently recognized as one of the best shows on television since its premiere in 2015. The series has been nominated for “Outstanding Drama Series” five times at the Emmys yet the Golden Globes have not recognized it once. The Breaking Bad prequel is yet to win in any category at the Emmys, a questionable result in and of itself, but its exclusion from these most recent Golden Globe nominations is particularly surprising. Bob Odenkirk was recognized with his fourth “Best Actor” nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, yet the show remained on the outside looking in, likely ceding its spot to Ratched or The Mandalorian. Better Call Saul has just one season remaining, so time is running out for the HFPA to help cement the legacy of this critically acclaimed series.

No Nominations for I May Destroy You

2020 was a turbulent year, but one thing just about everyone could agree on is that Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You was among the year’s best television shows. The series follows Coel’s character Arabella as she navigates the aftermath of a sexual assault. Coel blends several genres together in crafting an intricate portrait of friendship, womanhood, and identity in the digital age. Its presence at the Globes was seemingly a foregone conclusion. After all, the HFPA is known for appreciating stories from British storytellers such as Coel, and even recognized a comparable show in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag just one year prior. With the HFPA already facing accusations of racism, the exclusion of Coel’s I May Destroy You is incredibly disappointing, and quite frankly makes this year’s Golden Globes seem rather out of touch with the rest of the world. In place of Coel’s autobiographical masterpiece, the HFPA nominated its HBO cousin The Undoing, as well as Hulu’s Normal People, two shows that may possess some merit on their own, but come nowhere close to the kind of industry-shaking impact that I May Destroy You offered.

No Nominations for Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods tapped into a cultural zeitgeist early on in 2020, captivating Netflix users with a story of four Black Vietnam veterans, and one of their sons, who return to the country they ravaged (and that ravaged them) all those years in order to pay tribute to the fifth member of their brigade, Stormin’ Norman, and reflect on the racial unrest that defined their lives back in the States. Stormin’ Norman was played by the late Chadwick Boseman, whose performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was recognized by the HFPA with a nomination for Best Actor – Drama. There was some speculation that Boseman may also be nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Da 5 Bloods, but the film was ultimately shut out entirely from the awards show. Lead actor Delroy Lindo is an especially egregious snub, as his performance remains among the very best 2020 had to offer. Spike Lee has been nominated for three Golden Globes, but is yet to win one, and has never received a nomination for Best Picture. The legendary director’s kids are serving as this year’s Golden Globes Ambassadors, yet their father continues to be shunned by an award show that has drawn increasing attention to its race problem.

Jared Leto and Bill Murray Nominated for Best Supporting Actor

The Best Supporting Actor category presented the HFPA with a lot of intriguing opportunities. They could have nominated Sound of Metal actor Paul Raci, whose contemplative performance provided a moral center to one of the year’s most emotional films. Or they could have recognized Chadwick Boseman posthumously, as they did in the Best Actor – Drama category. Even Boseman’s Da 5 Bloods co-star Jonathan Majors was hearing his name as a possible nominee, as was young Alan S. Kim from Minari. Nominating any one of these actors would have been a bold, progressive move from an award show that rarely gets recognized as such. Nevertheless, the HFPA opted to recognize two actors from two movies that largely disappointed audiences and critics alike. Jared Leto’s performance in The Little Things is certainly creepy, but very few have called it award-worthy. Even Leto himself was surprised by the nomination. Meanwhile, Bill Murray was certainly charming in Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, but he wasn’t doing anything that fans hadn’t seen him do in his countless other films. Perhaps the HFPA was simply nostalgic for the star power that this category offered last year, with Brad Pitt grabbing the gold for Once Upon a Time In…Hollywood.

The Mauritanian and Music Make Their Presence Felt

The nature of the Golden Globes is such that the popular awards show often nominates films that audiences haven’t even seen yet. Of course, audiences are likely still familiar with these films in some capacity. But this year’s nominations included two films that caught audiences completely by surprise: legal drama The Mauritanian and the Sia-directed Music. The former tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was imprisoned for 14 years without charge in Guantanamo Bay. While its story is undoubtedly tense and worthwhile, the film has been maligned as bland and underwhelming by critics. And yet, the Golden Globes recognized both Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster with nominations in their respective categories. Music is similarly off the radar, telling the story of an autistic girl who views the world around her as a musical fantasy. With Sia in the director’s chair, the film was bound to gain attention, but no one expected it to be nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Kate Hudson was also nominated for Best Lead Actress – Musical or Comedy.

Anya Taylor-Joy Nominated for Emma

As it turns out, not all surprises are bad ones. Anya Taylor-Joy was a shoo-in to get recognized for her performance as Beth Harmon in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit miniseries. However, Taylor-Joy turned in an equally as impressive performance earlier in 2020 in Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, a witty and contemporary take on the classic Jane Austen novel. Taylor-Joy deftly juggles de Wilde’s unconventional blend of romance and humor. Still, very few people expected Taylor-Joy to be recognized for her work in the film, particularly considering how much The Queen’s Gambit came to define the young actress by the end of 2020. Now, Taylor-Joy can claim two Golden Globe nominations to her name.

Promising Young Woman Gets Lots of Love

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman has certainly been one of the most talked about movies in recent weeks, but it remained a huge question mark heading into the Golden Globes. Fennell’s film blends several genres together to create one of the most unsettling, subversive, and confrontational films in recent memory, and the HFPA was either going to love it or hate it. As it turns out, they were huge fans of the thriller, handing it four nominations. Of course, the HFPA has been known to nominate films and shows that generate a lot of buzz, hence the nomination for the widely watched yet critically panned Emily in Paris. Lead actress Carey Mulligan was a seeming lock for a Best Actress – Drama nomination, but Fennell’s nominations for Promising Young Woman for Best Director and Best Screenplay are especially noteworthy, as those categories tend to be male-dominated. Incredibly, the field for Best Director this year features three women and only two male directors.

Steven Yeun and Minari Cast Snubbed In Acting Categories

The HFPA has dealt with accusations of racism in recent weeks after announcing that A24’s Minari will be considered a foreign language film. The film is directed by an American, produced by an American company, and shot in the U.S., with a lead actor who grew up in the U.S. Nevertheless, the HFPA’s tone-deaf rules forced the film into the Best Foreign Language Film category, where it will have a showdown with Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round. However, Minari’s performers remained eligible for nominations in any of the acting categories. And yet, they were shut out entirely. One could make a case for awarding any of the actors in Minari, but Steven Yeun’s exclusion is particularly surprising. Yeun’s performance as Jacob Yi has been lauded as a beautiful, complicated ode to immigrant fathers everywhere. The film is deeply personal for everyone involved, particularly director Lee Isaac Chung, but the Golden Globes opted to largely ignore one of the best films of 2020.

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