‘Marriage Story’ Leads 2020 Golden Globe Nominations With 6 Nods, ‘The Irishman,’ ‘Joker’ Follow

Awards season has officially begun. The 2020 Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, kicking off the season of online discourse and film awards campaigning. Tim Allen, Dakota Fanning, and Susan Kelechi Watson revealed the nominations early this morning from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, where critical darlings like Marriage Story, The Irishman, and Joker were solidified as Oscar front-runners thanks to their leading nominations in categories like Best Picture, Best Director, and more.

Celebrities will cut their gems and get their knives out for the glitzy 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which airs live on NBC on Sunday, January 5, 2019. Ricky Gervais returns to host for his fifth, and allegedly “last,” go-around of awkwardly insulting a room of well-dressed, tipsy celebrities.

Marriage Story leads this year’s Golden Globe nominations, with Noah Baumbach‘s intimate story of a dissolving marriage earning a total of six nods, including one for the coveted Best Motion Picture – Drama as well as acting nods for his lauded leads Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver. Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman and Todd Phillips‘ Joker followed with four nominations each. Perhaps controversially, Phillips earned a Best Director nod, making the director category all-male once again. However, the Golden Globes at least avoids an all-white director category with an exciting nomination for Bong Joon-Ho‘s Parasite, the critically beloved Cannes Palme D’Or winner that earned a Best Foreign Language nod but was snubbed for Best Motion Picture — likely because of the same rule that kept Roma from the category last year.

But the HFPA continues to make baffling choices: Greta Gerwig and her sophomore effort Little Women only earned two nominations, with the critically acclaimed coming-of-age period drama left out of the top categories altogether. The HFPA also makes the strange decision of nominating The Farewell, an American production directed by a Chinese-American filmmaker, in its Foreign Language Film category.

Here is the full list of nominees below.

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
1917
Irishman
Joker
Marriage Story
The Two Popes

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Dolemite is my Name
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Rocketman

BEST DIRECTOR
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Christian Bale, Ford v. Ferrari
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Cynthio Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renee Zellweger, Judy

BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Daniel Craig, Knives Out
Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Awkwafina, The Farewell
Ana de Armas, Knives Out
Beanie Feldstein, Booksmart
Emma Thompson, Late Night
Cate Blanchett, Where’d You Go Bernadette

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Annette Benning, The Report
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Laura Dern, Marriage Story

BEST SCREENPLAY
Marriage Story
Parasite
The Two Popes
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
The Irishman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Motherless Brooklyn
Little Women
Joker
1917
Marriage Story

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Beautiful Ghosts – Cats
I’m Gonna Love Me Again – Rocketman
Into the Unknown – Frozen 2
Spirit – The Lion King
Stand Up – Harriet

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Frozen 2
The Lion King
Missing Link
Toy Story 4
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Farewell
Les Misérables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Big Little Lies
The Crown
Killing Even
Morning Show
Succession

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY
Barry
Fleabag
The Kominsky Method
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Politician

MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM
Catch-22
Chernobyl
Fosse/Verdon
The Loudest Voice
Unbelievable

BEST ACTOR TV SERIES – DRAMA

Brian Cox, Succession
Tobias Menzies, The Crown
Billy Porter, Pose
Kit Harington, Game of Thrones
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot

BEST ACTRESS TV SERIES – DRAMA

Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show
Olivia Colman, The Crown
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show

BEST ACTOR TV SERIES – COMEDY

Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Bill Hader, Barry
Ben Platt, The Politician
Paul Rudd, Living With Yourself
Ramy Youssef, Ramy

BEST ACTRESS TV SERIES – COMEDY
Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll
Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

BEST ACTOR – MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM
Chris Abbott, Catch 22
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Spy
Russell Crowe, The Loudest Voice
Jared Harris, Chernobyl
Sam Rockwell, Fosse/Verdon

BEST ACTRESS – MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM
Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon
Helen Mirren, Catherine the Great
Merritt Wever, Unbelievable
Kaitlyn Dever, Unbelievable
Joey King, The Act

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SERIES, MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM
Alan Arkin, Kominsky Method
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Andrew Scott, Fleabag
Stellan Skarsgård, Chernobyl
Henry Winkler, Barry

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SERIES, MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM
Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies
Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown
Emily Watson, Chernobyl
Patricia Arquette, The Act
Toni Collette, Unbelievable