After a year off from TV due to a post-scandal shake-up in the voting membership of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes are back…basically.

In a more low-key, straightforward announcement, the HFPA revealed the nominees for the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards, all for a ceremony that has been bumped from it’s usual Sunday night slot to a mid-week Tuesday evening affair. Whether stars show up or not (especially any who aren’t nominated) also remains to be seen.

For the film nominees, the Irish-set dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin led the pack with 8 nominations including Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director and Screenplay for filmmaker Martin McDonagh, and nods for it’s four main actors: Colin Ferrell (Best Actor, Musical or Comedy), Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan (Supporting Actor), and Kerry Condon (Supporting Actress).

Indie sensation Everything Everywhere All At Once followed close behind with 6 nominations including Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Director and Screenplay for “The Daniels” filmmaking duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and nods for it’s three main actors: Michelle Yeoh (Best Actress, Musical or Comedy) and Supporting Noms for Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Tying for 5 nominations (all including Best Motion Picture) were Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans, Baz Lurhmann‘s Elvis, and Damien Chazelle‘s Babylon, although Chazelle (whose La La Land set a Golden Globe record) was the one of the three denied a Best Director nod.

Possible Oscar contenders that were snubbed by the Globes include the strong female ensemble period drama Women Talking, Brendan Fraser‘s comeback with director Darren Aronofsky The Whale, and (less surprising) Apple’s gritty slave drama Emancipation starring Will Smith.

While Emancipation was the only film that was completely shut out from that trio, Women Talking and The Whale only managed three combined. Writer / Director Sarah Polley received a Screenplay nomination for the former as did the film’s composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (even as actresses Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Frances McDormand and Judith Ivey were all ignored), and Brendan Fraser received The Whale‘s lone nomination for Best Actor in a Drama. Fraser’s nomination is particularly ironic in that he won’t attend the ceremony out of protest, due to his accusations of sexual harassment committed against him years ago by an HFPA member.

Other notable snubs: Tom Cruise was denied an Actor nom despite Top Gun: Maverick being nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama. Its director Joseph Kosinski was also left out. The Cruise snub is less surprising, though given how he returned all three Globe awards that he had won over the years after the HFPA’s ethics scandal exploded in 2020. Like Fraser, Cruise is a likely no-show even though he is one of the producers for Maverick.

Female directors were also goose-egged. Contenders included Polley for Women Talking, Gina Prince-Bythewood for The Woman King, and Chinonye Chukwu for Till. The star of Till, Danielle Deadwyler, was also left out of the Best Actress Drama list despite being considered a likely Oscar nominee.

Jordan Peele‘s sci-fi thriller Nope was also entirely ignored, despite notching wins in some early critics group awards. Janelle Monáe has also received some critics group love for her supporting turn in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery but was absent from the Globes’ list of five.

The 80th Golden Globe Awards will be handed out live on Tuesday January 10, 2023 at 8pm EST/7pm CST on NBC and streaming on Peacock, with host Jerrod Carmichael.

For a full list of Television Nominees, visit the official Golden Globes website.

80th GOLDEN GLOBE MOTION PICTURE NOMINATIONS
Films of 2022

Best Motion Picture – Drama
– Avatar: The Way of Water
– Elvis
– The Fabelmans
– TÁR
– Top Gun: Maverick

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
– Babylon
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
– Triangle of Sadness

Best Male Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
– Austin Butler, Elvis
– Brendan Fraser, The Whale
– Hugh Jackman, The Son
– Bill Nighy, Living
– Jeremy Pope, The Inspection

Best Female Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
– Cate Blanchett, TÁR
– Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
– Viola Davis, The Woman King
– Ana de Armas, Blonde
– Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Male Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
– Diego Calva, Babylon
– Daniel Craig, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
– Adam Driver, White Noise
– Colin Ferrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

Best Female Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
– Leslie Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
– Margot Robbie, Babylon
– Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu
– Emma Thompson, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
– Michelle Yeoh , Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Male Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture
– Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Brad Pitt, Babylon
– Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse

Best Female Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture
– Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
– Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
– Carey Mulligan, She Said

Best Director
– James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
– Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Baz Luhrmann, Elvis
– Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Screenplay
– TÁR, Todd Field
– Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
– The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh
– Women Talking, Sarah Polley
– The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner

Best Original Score
– The Banshees of Inisherin, Carter Burwell
– Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Alexandre Desplat
– Women Talking, Hildur Guðnadóttir
– Babylon, Justin Hurwitz
– The Fabelmans, John Williams

Best Original Song
– “Carolina” / Where the Crawdads Sing – Taylor Swift
– “Ciao Papa” / Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro and Roeban Katz
– “Hold My Hand” /  Top Gun: Maverick – Lady Gaga, BloodPop, Benjamin Rice
– “Lift Me Up” / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Rihanna, Tems, Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson
– “Naatu Naatu” / RRR – M.M. Keeravani, Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj

Best Animated Feature Film
– Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
– Inu-Oh
– Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
– Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
– Turning Red

Best Foreign Language Film
– All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
– Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
– Close (Belgium / France / Netherlands)
– Decision to Leave (South Korea)
– RRR (India)

The Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award
– Eddie Murphy

The Carol Burnett Career Achievement in Television Award
– Ryan Murphy

For a full list of Television Nominees, visit the official Golden Globes website.

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Click on links below for other major Critics Group Awards and Guild Nominees that have been announced so far for the 2022 / 23 season:

Chicago Film Critics Association
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
American Film Institute Top 10 Films of 2022
National Board of Review
New York Film Critics Circle