Golden Globe nominations to reveal Hollywood award season hopefuls

Los Angeles, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): Hollywood’s award season hopefuls will start to take shape Monday with the nominations for the Golden Globes — the first clear indicator of the movies and stars destined for glory. The Globes are Tinseltown’s second-most important film awards, and a strong bellwether for success at the season-ending Oscars. Awards tracker Gold Derby predicts heartbreaking divorce saga “Marriage Story” will lead the way with six major nods. The Netflix film portrays how a seemingly stable love can be ripped apart after Scarlett Johansson’s actress moves from New York to Los Angeles, calling in the lawyers as she separates from a narcissistic theater director played by Adam Driver. Hot on its heels are Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic “The Irishman” — also from Netflix — and Quentin Tarantino’s nostalgia-fest “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Each boasts major A-list power, with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino facing off against Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. With Vatican drama “The Two Popes” and Eddie Murphy comeback vehicle “Dolemite Is My Name” also on its roster, Netflix will expect to cement its place among — or atop — Hollywood’s traditional studios. “Just on sheer number of quality movies that … Continue reading Golden Globe nominations to reveal Hollywood award season hopefuls