Angelina Jolie got totally shut out, but hooray for Jane the Virgin and Transparent!
1. Nothing for Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken
The Golden Globes — which exist in large part so the Hollywood Foreign Press Association can throw a big party for Hollywood, and which have literally zero overlap with the voting bodies for the Oscars or the Emmys — have always been addicted to star power and glamour. As such, they have fallen over themselves to recognize Angelina Jolie. She won her first Globe way back in 1998 for the TV movie George Wallace, and she was nominated as recently as 2010 for The Tourist (!!!), and in 2011 for her feature directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey (for Best Foreign Language Film).
So one would certainly expect that Unbroken, Jolie’s first major English-language film as a director — a movie that has long been near the top of everyone’s list as a possible awards season contender — would have earned at least a few nominations from the Golden Globes. Instead: Nothing. Not for the film. Not for lead star Jack O’Connell. Not for Jolie. Zip. As if to underline the snub, Jolie was also ignored for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Maleficent. Did she forget to send the HFPA a Christmas card or something? —Adam B. Vary
Universal Pictures
2. Yes, Gina Rodriguez, and 3. Yes, a nomination for Jane the Virgin
These nominations are so gratifying for Jane the Virgin’s viewers, who are few. The hourlong CW show, in its freshman year, is astonishingly good. Every little piece of it works, and works together — Jennie Snyder Urman, its showrunner, appears to have a masterplot. The most important part, of course, is Gina Rodriguez as Jane: Without such a smart, winning lead, the show might still work — that’s how good all of it is — but it would not be what it is. We don’t have to contemplate that, though, because Rodriguez is the show’s star, and it’s a career-maker for her. I am thrilled and surprised that she and the show were recognized. But now what I want is for Rodriguez to win so people know this show exists. She must win! —Kate Aurthur
The CW
4. No Laura Dern for Wild
Reese Witherspoon is rightly winning enormous praise for her (Golden Globe nominated!) performance in Wild as author Cheryl Strayed, whose life spiraled out of control after her mother died of cancer. Laura Dern plays Strayed’s mother in the film, and her performance is so brimming with life than you understand completely why Strayed fell to pieces after she died. Witherspoon’s work wouldn’t feel nearly as rich if Dern’s work weren’t so great — it is the very definition of a “supporting” performance. One that has gone unacknowledged by the Golden Globes. It is a genuine shame! —A.B.V.
Fox Searchlight
5. Nothing for Top Five, or 6. Neighbors, or 7. 22 Jump Street
It’s become something of a joke that an organization that has dedicated an entire suite of categories to recognizing comedies has so often failed to recognize actual comedies that make people laugh out loud multiple times. So it isn’t even much of a surprise that the year’s top live-action comedies — 22 Jump Street and Neighbors — earned a total of zero nominations.
But Chris Rock’s Top Five is not “just” a big Hollywood comedy — it’s a thoughtful, artful meditation on fame and success that also happens to make people laugh out loud many, many times. Rock has been everywhere promoting it. And yet the Globes saw fit to snub it completely. Yet another shame! —A.B.V.
Paramount
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