After a rocky few years and the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the have seemingly stabilized. Now the question is: Can they still put on a good show?
The , beginning Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST, will hope to rekindle some of the frothy comic energy of the days when Ricky Gervais or Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted. Last year's comeback edition, hosted by , was widely panned, but it delivered where it counted: to about 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. CBS signed up for five more years.
This time, the ceremony from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The Globes, now owned by Todd Boehly's Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, will be broadcast live by CBS and available to stream live for subscribers to Paramount+ with Showtime beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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Will Timoth茅e Chalamet win his first Globe?
The best actor in a drama category is a bruiser, with a field of Ralph Fiennes ("Conclave"), Adrien Brody ("The Brutalist"), Daniel Craig ("Queer"), Colman Domingo ("Sing Sing"), Sebastian Stan ("The Apprentice") and , for the Bob Dylan film 鈥淎 Complete Unknown.鈥� While Fiennes or Brody might take it, a win for Chalamet would be the first major award for the 29-year-old star 鈥� and surely would get the Oscar talk going.
How soon until someone mentions Hollywood's biggest feud?
Just days before the Globes, sued director Justin Baldoni and several others tied to the romantic drama, alleging harassment and a coordinated campaign to attack her reputation for coming forward about her treatment on the set. Baldoni, who has denied it, joined in a suit accusing The New York Times for libel in its story on her allegations.
Whether or not any of this gets mentioned on the Beverly Hilton Ballroom stage, it will surely be on the minds of many attendees. Among the nominees for box-office achievement is which star and was co-produced by Ryan Reynolds, Lively's husband. Glaser, whose sharply barbed jokes at a roast of Tom Brady helped catapult her to this moment, isn't known for biting her tongue.
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Will politics play a starring role?
The Globes, taking place about two weeks before the inauguration of , could get very political if presenters and winners are so inclined to continue what's been a mutually antagonistic relationship between Hollywood and Trump. That may be unlikely, though; so far in Hollywood's awards season, most nominees have tried to stay out of the fray.
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Is there an Oscar frontrunner?
It's been an unusually uncertain awards season so far in many respects. No one movie has really stepped forward as the leading best picture contender, though several films 鈥� including 鈥淐辞苍肠濒补惫别,鈥� 鈥淎nora,鈥� 鈥淲icked," 鈥淓milia P茅rez鈥� and 鈥淭he Brutalist鈥� 鈥� can all make a decent case. The Globes don't typically do much to sort out the field, but a strong showing from any of the above could add fuel to their Oscar campaign.
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Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
