Los Angeles (AFP)
The film "Marriage Story" came on top of the Golden Globes nominations on Monday with selections in six categories in total, the Netflix platform that produces it leaving behind all its competitors in this inaugural step of the Hollywood Movie Awards season.
"Marriage Story" follows the tumultuous divorce between an actress played by Scarlett Johansson and her husband director, played by Adam Driver, both nominated in the Best Actor and Actress category.
In the category of best drama, "Marriage Story" will be grappling with heavyweight opponents like "The Two Popes", "Joker", and especially "The Irishman", historical thriller politico-mafia director Martin Scorsese, also produced by Netflix, which collects five nominations.
If Martin Scorsese was selected, along with Al Pacino and Joe Pesci who will compete for the best supporting role, the main actor of the three-and-a-half-hour film, Robert De Niro, leaves empty-handed.
The last Quentin Tarantino, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood", also gets five nominations, including in the category of the best comedy. There will be "Rocketman", biopic dedicated to singer Elton John, "Jojo Rabbit", again with Scarlett Johansson, and "Dolemite Is My Name", which marks the return of Eddy Murphy - nominated for the title of best actor - and that is still produced by Netflix.
Netflix is still in command with "The Two Popes", an imaginary encounter between Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and his successor François (Jonathan Pryce), who each win a nomination, bringing to four the total selections for this film directed by the Brazilian Fernando Meirelles.
The streaming giant may be facing a growing competition, among the major Hollywood studios he is a big winner of the ceremony held early Monday morning in Beverly Hills: 18 selections in total, against only 8 for Sony, in second place ranking.
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"I'm not surprised by this domination, I'm surprised how massive it is," Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, told AFP. were asked to vote for these appointments.
For Mr. Soria, "the announcements this morning are a bit of a transition to the maturity of streaming services".
The Golden Globes are among the most coveted awards in American cinema: they are a major indicator of films and actors with a good chance of winning the famous golden statuette of the Oscars.
"Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" seems to have good chances for the 77th Golden Globes, to be held January 5 in Los Angeles, with nominations for Quentin Tarantino and each of the main stars of the film: Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
Another serious candidate, the "Joker" (four nominations) directed by Todd Phillips and embodied by the highly-noticed Joaquin Phoenix, who could both be distinguished this year.
Proof of its success, Netflix has also dominated the nominations for television, since the Golden Globes also showcases the small screen.
"The Crown", a series about the British royal family in which Olivia Colman plays Queen Elizabeth II, will defend the colors of Netflix in four categories.
With "The Morning Show", and the duo of actresses formed by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, Apple's new streaming service gets three nominations.
In total, Netflix snatched 17 nominations for television, compared to 15 to its historical rival HBO.
France will be represented at the Golden Globes by the independant composer Alexandre Desplats, author of the music of the film "The Daughters of Dr. March", the historical drama "Portrait of the girl on fire" by Céline Sciamma, and especially by "Les Les Miserables "by Ladj Ly, Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival and selected in the Best Foreign Film category at the Golden Globes.
But "Les Miserables" will find on their way a formidable competitor, "Parasite" of the Korean Bong Joon-ho, who won him the Palme d'Or.
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