#golden-globes

#golden-globes

Love 'em or hate 'em, the Golden Globes remain the highest-profile non-Oscars event in awards season, and appropriately, their decisions carry a lot of weight in the Movies Fantasy League. With nine nominations (tied for third-most ever), One Battle After Another was the top earner, picking up 100 points and further extending its lead over all other MFL films. As of right now, OBAA has earned 510 awards points, far ahead of second-place Sinners with 345.

Ever since reforming their membership a few years back, the Globes have backed away from their particular brand of shamelessness and gotten a little bit hipper. Now they're essentially a critics' group with a TV deal. Still, the wide scope of their nominations - separate categories for comedies and dramas, a whole slate of TV noms that operate on a different calendar from the Emmys', and for the first time, a category for podcasts - means plenty of room for surprises.

For most audiences, it's the first real chance to gauge the strength of films in the Oscars race after months of speculation. The Globes also possess the opportunity to rectify any snubs or surprises upsets in TV from the Emmy Awards. There are always the usual arguments. What defines something as a comedy or a drama? But of course, even with double the number of nominations, the Globes still find a way to surprise us.

With six nominees in most categories, separate nominations for comedy/musical and drama, television and podcast buckets too, it seems there would be enough to go around. And yet that's hardly ever the case. Others left out include Joe Rogan, Sydney Sweeney and Gwyneth Paltrow, leaving room for plenty of surprise inclusions. Here are some of the biggest snubs and surprises of the morning.

At present, the mantelpiece of Paul Thomas Anderson remains strikingly light on major trophies. Despite being responsible for some of the films widely acknowledged to be the best of the century so far, including There Will Be Blood, The Master and Magnolia, the writer-director is yet to win an Oscar, Golden Globe or more than one Bafta (original screenplay for 2021's Licorice Pizza).

Busts by Rodin and works by Kandinksy and Matisse are among some 400 items belonging to the late actor going up for auction next month. Three Golden Globe statues, a variety of film memorabilia and annotated scripts, posters and an easel are also up for sale in the three-stage auction run by Bonhams. One of the paintings by Hackman included in the Bonhams sale. Photograph: LA-CH/AP Prices are relatively low, with the Globes priced between $3,000-$5,000,