So this was the Golden Globes’ plan for making everybody happy: Expand the number of nominees in every category from five to six.
It’s not a sneaky plan by any means – the Critics Choice Awards, among others, have been doing it for years – but it gives you so much more breathing room when you’re putting together a slate of nominations designed to get the studios, networks and streamers back on your side, which is something the Golden Globes need badly.
After all, doing away with that pesky limit of five nominees per category means you can drop three (!) films largely or partly not in English in your Best Motion Picture – Drama category (“Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Zone of Interest” and “Past Lives”) and still find room for the must-haves “Oppenheimer,” “Barbie” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
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