‘Barbie’ and ‘Succession’ Dominate 2024 Golden Globe Nominations

Barbie, Oppenheimer, Succession, and The Bear all picked up a slew of nominations as the contenders for the 2024 Golden Globes were announced Monday, Dec. 11.

Barbie led all film nominees with nine, including nods for Best Director (Greta Gerwig), Actress (Margot Robbie), and Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling). Oppenheimer followed close behind with eight, also picking up nominations for Director (Christopher Nolan), Actor (Cillian Murphy), Supporting Actor (Robert Downey, Jr.), and Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt).

Both will compete for Best Motion Picture, though in separate categories. Barbie will be in the Musical or Comedy category, alongside Air, American Fiction, The Holdovers, May December, and Poor Things. And in Drama, Oppenheimer will compete against Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, and The Zone of Interest.

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon picked up seven nominations, as did Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. One of the strongest showings was Past Lives, Celine Song’s celebrated romantic drama, which earned five nominations, Best Director for Song and Best Actress for star Greta Lee. 

Over in television, Succession unsurprisingly dominated the field, picking up nine nominations for its final season. The show is up for Best Television Series – Drama, against 1923, The Last of Us, The Crown, The Diplomat, and The Morning Show. Numerous members of its ensemble cast also picked up acting noms, including Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Brian Cox, Alan Ruck Matthew Macfadyen, Alexander Skarsgård, and J. Smith-Cameron. 

Meanwhile, The Bear and Only Murders in the Building earned five nominations each, and they’ll both compete in the Best TV Series – Musical or Comedy category against Barry, Abbott Elementary, Jury Duty, and Ted Lasso. The Bear stars Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Abby Elliott all picked up acting noms, as did Only Murders’  Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Meryl Streep.

Earlier this year, Dick Clark Productions purchased the Golden Globes, and all its assets, from the scandal-plagued Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The acquisition signaled a “winddown” (as it was put in a statement at the time) of the HFPA and its membership, with the Globes transitioning from a non-profit enterprise to a commercial one. Dick Clark Productions is owned by Rolling Stone’s parent company, Penske Media Corporation, in partnership with the holding company Eldridge. 

For decades, the Globes and the HFPA had faced accusations of vote fixing, bribery, and other shady dealings. Brendan Fraser also accused former HFPA president Philip Berk of groping him at a 2003 event, a claim Berk denied (an official investigation found that Berk had “inappropriately touched” Fraser, but “evidence support that it was intended to be taken as a joke”). Berk was later expelled from the HFPA after sending an email to members in which he quoted an article calling Black Lives Matter a “racist hate movement.” This was revealed not long after a damning Los Angeles Times investigation that revealed the HPFA had no Blackvoting members until that year. 

The 2021 uproar prompted NBC to drop the Golden Globes telecast for 2022, but the show returned to the airwaves earlier this year. The sale to Dick Clark Productions was announced a few months later, in June. 

The 2024 Golden Globes will take place on Jan. 7, airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

Check below for the full list of nominations.

Movies

Best Picture — Drama
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest

Best Picture — Musical or Comedy
Air
American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
May December
Poor Things

Best Actor — Drama
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

Best Actress — Drama
Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

Best Actor — 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

Best Actress — 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

Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn

Best Supporting Actor
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

Best Director
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Original Score — Motion Picture
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Song — Motion Picture
“Addicted to Romance,” She Came to Me
“Dance the Night,” Barbie
“I’m Just Ken,” Barbie
“Peaches,” The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“Road to Freedom,” Rustin
“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas for Barbie

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Motion Picture — Non-English Language
Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Io Capitano
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
Society of the Snow

Best Motion Picture — Animated
The Boy and the Heron
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Elemental
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Wish

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

TV

Best Television Series — Drama
1923
Succession
The Last of Us
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Morning Show

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear
Jury Duty
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
All the Light We Cannot See
Beef
Daisy Jones and the Six
Fargo
Fellow Travelers
Lessons in Chemistry

Best Actress — 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

Best Actor — Drama
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Dominic West, The Crown
Brian Cox, Succession
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Best Actress in a TV Series — Musical or Comedy
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Elle Fanning, The Great
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

Best Actor in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy
Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Actress in a TV Series — TV Movie/Limited
Riley Keough, Daisy Jones and the Six
Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen, Love and Death
Juno Temple, Fargo
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Ali Wong, Beef

Best Actor in a TV Series — TV Movie/Limited
Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones and the Six
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers
David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Steven Yeun, Beef

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
James Marsden, Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Alan Ruck, Succession
Alexander Skarsgård, Succession

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Ricky Gervais, Armageddon
Trevor Noah, Where Was I?
Chris Rock, Selective Outrage
Amy Schumer, Emergency Contact
Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer

From Rolling Stone US.