Vice 2018
Led the field with six nominations, including Best Picture in comedy, a placement Amanda calls blatant category fraud. Sean thinks the international, explain-America appeal of Adam McKay's Dick Cheney satire helped it land.
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The Golden Globes Nominations: Surprises and Snubs | The Oscars Show (Ep. 104)
December 6, 2018/ 53 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean and Amanda dig through the morning's Golden Globe nominations, from Vice's category-fraud haul to Roma's bizarre exclusion from Best Picture, then run down the season's stock ups, stock downs, surprises, and snubs.
23 films across 4 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
The Golden Globes Nominationsthe biggest categories
Green Book 2018
One of five nominations Sean and Amanda group with BlacKkKlansman as movies that read to an international voting body as explaining an American racial tension.
BlacKkKlansman 2018
Grouped with Green Book as a Globes-friendly explain-America pick.
Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
Competed in drama alongside A Star Is Born, which Sean and Amanda find odd given how loosely the Globes assign the comedy/musical label.
A Star Is Born 2018
The drama frontrunner, and the movie Sean says makes the most sense for a straightforward Best Picture run.
Crazy Rich Asians 2018
Amanda is glad to see it and Constance Wu in the conversation, though she's not sure it carries into the Oscars.
The Favourite 2018
Nominated as a comedy, which both hosts find funny given how grim much of the film actually is.
Roma 2018
Alfonso Cuarón gets director and screenplay nods, but the film itself is barred from Best Picture drama or comedy because the Globes' bylaws say a foreign-language nominee can only compete in the foreign film category.
Stock Up, Stock Down
Vice 2018
Sam Rockwell's supporting nod for playing George W. Bush comes at the expense of Sam Elliott.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017
Rockwell's Oscar and Globe win last year for this film, which Sean says he's essentially repeating in the same slot this year.
A Star Is Born 2018
Sam Elliott's nomination comes for a body-of-work role Sean compares to Gary Oldman's position last year.
BlacKkKlansman 2018
No screenplay nomination despite expectations, but John David Washington and Adam Driver both land acting nods.
Black Panther 2018
Shut out of every acting category, which Sean says makes its Best Picture nomination feel more like a formality than real enthusiasm.
Mary Poppins Returns 2018
Amanda expects a bigger campaign push built around Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
First Man 2018
Nominated only for Justin Hurwitz's score, missing Gosling, Chazelle, and Best Picture, which Sean blames on a bad October release date.
First Reformed 2018
Ethan Hawke's total shutout is the snub that bothers Amanda most; she calls him a movie star being ignored by a body that usually loves a good press tour.
Surprises and Snubs
Crazy Rich Asians 2018
Constance Wu's nomination, which Amanda's happy about.
Eighth Grade 2018
Elsie Fisher's nomination for a performance Sean calls a star turn, backed by an unusually strong press-tour run for a teenager.
Tully 2018
Charlize Theron's nod reads to Amanda as a put-a-famous-person-on-TV pick, even though she thinks the performance itself is very good.
Destroyer 2018
Nicole Kidman's transformation role, which neither host finds surprising.
The Old Man & the Gun 2018
Sean is thrilled Robert Redford got in and can't figure out why David Lowery's film never got a real theatrical push.
The Wife 2017
Glenn Close's nomination, running joke being that neither host has actually seen the movie yet.
If Beale Street Could Talk 2018
Barry Jenkins missing a Best Director nomination stings both hosts, and they flag Brian Tyree Henry's total shutout as an outright snub.
The Award Show Hosts
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing GravitySeven SamuraiLife Is BeautifulThe TouristRoomCreedMary PoppinsA Ghost StoryPete's DragonMoonlightWhiplashStep BrothersLady BirdPhantom ThreadGet OutSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
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Other The Lonely Island
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