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Musical romance La La Land leads Golden Globe nominations

Tuesday, 13 Dec 2016 03:00:35

Musical La La Land features actors Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. (Lionsgate)

La La Land, a musical about two dreamers falling in love in Hollywood, beat out gritty drama and true-life stories to lead the Golden Globe nominees.

Key points:

  • La La Land secures 7 nominations
  • Actors of colour recognised after 'White Oscars' furore
  • Winners announced on January 8 in ceremony hosted by Jimmy Fallon

The musical scored seven nominations in all, including for Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the lead comedy/musical acting categories, while writer-director Damien Chazelle received nods for best director and best screenplay.

Moonlight, the tale of an impoverished black boy in Miami struggling with his sexuality, scored six nods.

The nominations underscored how La La Land and Moonlight are becoming the two frontrunners in Hollywood's annual awards race.

Both made the American Film Institute's list of best movies of 2016.

At Sunday's Critics Choice awards, La La Land took home eight accolades, including best picture, while Moonlight picked up two.

La La Land is up against 20th Century Women, the story of a free-spirited mother; raunchy superhero action movie Deadpool; singing comedy Florence Foster Jenkins; and teen tale Sing Street for best comedy/musical film at the Golden Globes.

Moonlight will face Mel Gibson's war drama Hacksaw Ridge; western crime story Hell or High Water; adoption tale Lion, in which Nicole Kidman has been nominated for best supporting actress; and Manchester by the Sea, which is about a working-class family dealing with tragedy, in the best drama film category.

Gibson secured three Golden Globe nominations for Hacksaw Ridge.

Winners will be announced on January 8 at a televised ceremony hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

Actors of colour get nods after 'White Oscars' furore

After a furore that erupted earlier this year because all 20 acting Oscar nominees were white, the Golden Globes feature numerous actors of colour, including Ruth Negga of Loving, Ali and Harris of Moonlight, and Dev Patel, who is of Indian descent, for Lion.

Ruth Negga of "loving" is among several actors of colour nominated at the Golden Globes Photo: The Golden Globes feature numerous actors of colour, including Ruth Negga of Loving. (Reuters: Eric Gaillard)

Notable omissions from the best drama film category included Jackie, an in-depth character study of the widow of US president John F Kennedy in the week after his assassination.

Lead Natalie Portman, however, received a best actress nomination.

"I had such a beautiful experience making this film with the most wonderful cast and crew, and particularly with our great director, Pablo Larrain, that it feels like icing on the cake to be nominated," Portman said in a statement.

Martin Scorsese's Silence, the tale of missionaries in 17th-century Japan, and Fences, a tense African-American family drama set in the 1950s, were also snubbed in the best drama film category.

Fences did bring nods for best actor to Denzel Washington and best supporting actress for Viola Davis.

In the best comedy/musical category, Hidden Figures, the true-life story of three black women who help NASA in the 1960s space race, was missing from the list, but star Octavia Spencer landed a best supporting actress nomination.

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