It’s still another month before the televised awards shows will start putting this year’s contenders in a national spotlight, but now we at least know who will be there in the room. This week’s announcement of the Golden Globes nominations as well as the Critics Choice Awards nominations created early January plans for a wide range of contenders—if you had any part to play in Barbie, you probably ought to go ahead and figure out what to wear.
On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, David Canfield, Rebecca Ford, Richard Lawson, and Katey Rich take a comprehensive look at the many, many developments in the world of awards over the past week. Both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice went big for Barbie and Oppenheimer, as expected, while also providing boosts to a range of other critical favorites like Killers of the Flower Moon and May December. Given that both organizations award (at least) six nominations in the acting categories, though, there’s plenty of uncertainty about who might make the Oscar cut. Sure, it’s easy enough to guess that Jennifer Lawrence’s No Hard Feelings Golden Globes nomination won’t translate at the Oscars—but if you can look at the Golden Globes supporting-actor category and figure out how to winnow it down to five, you’re doing better than we are!
Listen below to the episode, which also includes a discussion of Sean Durkin’s film The Iron Claw, which opens wide on December 22. You can email the team at littlegoldmen@vf.com, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you get your podcasts.