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'Crown,' 'Mank,' 'Borat' nominated for Golden Globes

The streaming service Netflix -- which released "The Crown," "Ozark," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Mank" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7" -- led the field with 42 nominations.
By Karen Butler   |   Updated Feb. 3, 2021 at 10:44 AM
Olivia Colman's "The Crown" was nominated for six Golden Globes on Wednesday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Gary Oldman's "Mank" is up for six Golden Globes. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI Sacha Baron Cohen and his comedy, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," were nominated for Golden Globes Wednesday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson read aloud from their homes in an online ceremony Wednesday the nominees for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards.

The streaming service Netflix -- which released The Crown, Ozark, The Queen's Gambit, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7 -- led the field with 42 nominations.

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In the TV categories, The Crown dominated with six nominations, while Schitt's Creek (Pop TV) earned five, and Ozark and The Undoing (HBO) each picked up four.

In the film competitions, Mank was nominated for six Globes, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is up for five, and The Father (Sony Pictures Classics,) Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) and Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) each earned four nods.

HBO earned seven nominations for TV honors, Hulu grabbed six, and Pop TV and Showtime each earned five.

Amazon Studios scored seven nominations for film, while Focus Features, Searchlight Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures are all in the running for five awards apiece. Warner Bros. Pictures earned four nominations and Universal Pictures garnered three nods.

This year's Golden Globes class also includes for the first time three female Best Director candidates: Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman, Regina King for One Night in Miami (Amazon) and Chloé Zhao for Nomadland.

Winners of the Globes, which honor excellence in TV and film, are to be announced on Feb. 28.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association bestows the prizes.

Comic actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be hosting this year's ceremony. They previously hosted the 2013, 2014 and 2015 ceremonies. Comedian Ricky Gervais presided over the 2020 edition.

Television pioneer and political activist Norman Lear is to receive the Carol Burnett Award and actress Jane Fonda will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Satchel and Jackson Lee -- the children of filmmaker Spike Lee -- will serve as Golden Globes Ambassadors.

Nominations in the top Globes categories are:

Best Film Drama

The Father

Mank

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Film -- Musical or Comedy

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Hamilton

Palm Springs

Music

The Prom

Best Director of a Film

Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman

David Fincher Mank

Regina King One Night in Miami

Aaron Sorkin The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chloé Zhao Nomadland

Best Animated Movie

The Croods: A New Age

Onward

Over the Moon

Soul

Wolfwalkers

Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round

La Llorona

The Life Ahead

Minari

Two of Us

Best Actor in a Drama Film

Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Anthony Hopkins The Father

Gary Oldman Mank

Tahar Rahim The Mauritanian

Best Actress in a Drama Film

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 Actor in a Film -- Musical or Comedy

Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

James Corden The Prom

Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton

Dev Patel The Personal History of David Copperfield

Andy Samberg Palm Springs

Best Actress in a Film -- 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 TV Drama

The Crown

Lovecraft Country

The Mandalorian

Ozark

Ratched

Best Actor in a TV Drama

Jason Bateman Ozark

Josh O'Connor The Crown

Bob Odenkirk Better Call Saul

Al Pacino Hunters

Matthew Rhys Perry Mason

Best Actress in a TV Drama

Olivia Colman The Crown

Jodie Comer Killing Eve

Emma Corrin The Crown

Laura Linney Ozark

Sarah Paulson Ratched

Best TV Comedy

Emily in Paris

The Flight Attendant

The Great

Schitt's Creek

Ted Lasso

Best Actor in a TV Comedy

Don Cheadle Black Monday

Nicholas Hoult The Great

Eugene Levy Schitt's Creek

Jason Sudeikis Ted Lasso

Ramy Youssef Ramy

Best Actress in a TV Comedy

Lily Collins Emily in Paris

Kaley Cuoco The Flight Attendant

Elle Fanning The Great

Jane Levy Zoey's Extraordinary Play List

Catherine O'Hara Schitt's Creek

Best Limited Series or TV Movie

Normal People

The Queen's Gambit

Small Axe

The Undoing

Unorthodox

Best Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie

Bryan Cranston Your Honor

Jeff Daniels The Comey Rule

Hugh Grant The Undoing

Ethan Hawke The Good Lord Bird

Mark Ruffalo I Know This Much is True

Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie

Cate Blanchett Mrs. America

Daisy Edgar-Jones Normal People

Shira Haas Unorthodox

Nicole Kidman The Undoing

Anya Taylor-Joy The Queen's Gambit