Golden Globes: Eddie Redmayne and Keira Knightley among British stars nominated for awards

Eddie Redmayne and Kiera Knightley are among a host of British stars nominated for next year’s Golden Globe Awards.

Redmayne starred in Sky Atlantic’s thriller The Day of the Jackal, which is also up for best drama series, and Knightley is the lead in Netflix’s spy series Black Doves.

Genre-blurring musical Emilia Perez – which is about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to transition to living as a woman – led the field with ten nominations.

All three of its lead stars – Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón – are up for acting awards.

It was followed by the historical epic The Brutalist, starring Adrian Brody as a Hungarian immigrant fleeing the horrors of the Second World War, which got seven nods. Brody, Australian star Guy Pierce and British actress Felicity Jones all got performance nominations.

Meanwhile, The Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked – which has so far taken hundreds of millions at the box office – saw its lead stars, singer Ariana Grande and British actress Cynthia Erivo, both score major nods for their leading roles.

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With four nods to its name, Wicked also got a mention in the cinematic and box office achievement category, while both musicals are shortlisted in the best picture musical or comedy category.

Cardinal drama Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes; Anora, about a New York stripper who falls for the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, and The Substance. a body-horror starring Demi Moore, also received recognition, with five nods apiece.

Other British stars to make it into contention included Kate Winslet (who was nominated in both the TV and film categories for The Regime and Lee), Gary Oldman for hit Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, Hugh Grant for horror movie Heretic and Daniel Craig for his film Queer, based on the 1985 novella by William S Burroughs.

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Meanwhile, there was a surprise nomination for Robbie Williams for his offbeat biopic, Better Man, which is his life story told through the medium of a computer-generated monkey. It’s up for best original song.

Among a starry field of nominees, Zendaya, Timothee Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington and Glen Powell all scored nominations.

Zendaya’s sport romance Challengers got four nods, including best actress in a motion picture in the musical and comedy field.

The Wild Robot, an animation about an android that becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling, got four nods, including best animated film.

Sing Sing, a film based on a rehabilitation programme at the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York state, saw its star, Colman Domingo, nominated for best actor in a motion picture drama.

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Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson got a nod as best actress in the drama film category, for her lead role in The Last Showgirl, Gia Coppola’s movie about a fading showgirl forging a new future.

And while president-elect Donald Trump wasn’t a fan of The Apprentice – a movie based on his early life – the movie received nominations for its two central performances from Sebastian Stan (who plays a young Trump) and Jeremy Strong as his lawyer Roy Cohn.

In the TV field, chef drama The Bear got five nods, with Shogun and Only Murders in the Building receiving four.

Richard Gadd’s contentious Netflix series, Baby Reindeer, got three nods, including best actor for him, best actress for Jessica Gunning and best limited series or TV movie.

Controversial drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story – based on the real-life murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 – got three nods, including two acting nods for its stars, Cooper Koch and Javier Bardem.

Irish star Colin Firth got a nod for his performance in Sky Atlantic’s The Penguin, which offers a deep dive into the life of one of Gotham’s most notorious gangsters.

Like Winslet, Gomez received nods across both the film and TV categories, for her work on Emilia Perez and Only Murders In The Building.

This year’s lifetime achievement awards will go to former Cheers star Ted Danson (for the Carol Burnett Award) and Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis (for the Cecil B DeMille Award). Both will be announced a few days before the ceremony in the New Year.

Announced by actors Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut live from LA, the Golden Globe nominations are the first big milestone of awards season, and the first signpost to which films we’ll be hearing lots more about ahead of next year’s Oscars.

Unlike other awards, the Globes cover both TV and film and are split by genre, falling into either the drama or comedy and musical category – meaning a wealth of nominees are in the running. There are six competing performers in each of the six acting categories.

Last year’s nominations were led by Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the latter of which went on to win best picture at the Oscars.

Now in comeback mode, the Globes had previously faced criticism over a lack of diversity in the organisation, which led to the event being held behind closed doors in 2022.

Golden Globes winners will be announced on Sunday 5 January, with the ceremony hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser.