Promising Young Woman makes a splash at Golden Globes

Promising Young Woman Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman has been a surprise success in this year's Golden Globes nominations, a contender for Best Picture - Drama and Best Director despite being a first feature and proving controversial on the festival circuit. Fennell is one of three women to receive nominations for Best Director, a category which has been criticised for being almost exclusively male throughout the lengthy history of the awards, which are seen as the most important ones in the industry apart from the Oscars.

Other films doing well include Mank, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. In a year which has seen critics, like audiences, approaching films in a very different way from usual, these are now clear contenders for the biggest awards of them all.

Those film nominations in full:-

Best Motion Picture – Drama

• The Father
• Mank
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• The Trial Of The Chicago 7

Best Director – Motion Picture

• Regina King - One Night In Miami
• David Fincher - Mank
• Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
• Aaron Sorkin - The Trial Of The Chicago 7
• Chloé Zhao - Nomadland

Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Drama

• Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Andra Day - The United States Vs Billie Holiday
• Vanessa Kirby - Pieces Of A Woman
• Frances McDormand - Nomadland
• Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman

Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama

• Riz Ahmed - Sound Of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Anthony Hopkins - The Father
• Gary Oldman - Mank
• Tahar Rahim - The Mauritanian

Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Hamilton
• Music
• Palm Springs
• The Prom

Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

• Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Kate Hudson - Music
• Michelle Pfeiffer - French Exit
• Rosamund Pike - I Care A Lot
• Anya Taylor-Joy - Emma

Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

• Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• James Corden - The Prom
• Dev Patel - The Personal History Of David Copperfield
• Andy Samberg - Palm Springs
• Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton

Best Motion Picture – Animated

• The Croods: A New Age
• Onward
• Over The Moon
• Soul
• Wolfwalkers

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

• Another Round
• La Llorona
• The Life Ahead
• Minari
• Two Of Us

Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In Any Motion Picture

• Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy
• Olivia Colman - The Father
• Jodie Foster - The Mauritanian
• Amanda Seyfried - Mank
• Helena Zengel - News Of The World

Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In Any Motion Picture

• Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial Of The Chicago 7
• Daniel Kaluuya - Judas And The Black Messiah
• Jared Leto - The Little Things
• Bill Murray - On The Rocks
• Leslie Odom Jr - One Night In Miami

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

• Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
• Jack Fincher - Mank
• Aaron Sorkin - The Trial Of The Chicago 7
• Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller - The Father
• Chloé Zhao - Nomadland

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

• The Midnight Sky
• Tenet
• News Of The World
• Mank
• Soul

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

• Fight For You - Judas And The Black Messiah
• Io Sì - The Life Ahead
• Speak Now - One Night In Miami
• Tigress & Tweed - The United States Vs Billie Holiday
• Hear My Voice - The Trial Of The Chicago 7