Nominee Profiles 2022

Leave it to Steven Spielberg to be daring enough to do a second feature-length adaptation of the beloved stage musical, West Side Story. After all, the 1961 first big-screen adaptation, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, is considered a landmark movie musical.

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For his performance in In the Heights, actor-singer Anthony Ramos became a first-time Golden Globe nominee. His moving portrayal of the central character Usnavi in the Jon M.

With a movie career that began at age 6, when she was cast in Woody Allen’s New York Stories, Kirsten Dunst began clocking up an array of Golden Globe nominations. By age 12, her first nod.

Frank Herbert’s acclaimed 1965 science fiction novel Dune has always proved a cinematic challenge to filmmakers trying to adapt the sprawling story set in the distant future of a feudal interstellar society where various noble houses control planetary fiefs. Whereas David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation received mixed critical reception, Denis Villeneuve, the French-Canadian director who brought Sicario, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 to the screen, not only received critical and commercial praise for his revision, but two Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Director.

Actress, Writer and Producer Issa Rae has garnered another Golden Globe nomination for her critically acclaimed performance as Issa Dee in the HBO series Insecure. This is her third nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical.

Two-time Tony award-winner Christine Baranski always wanted to be onstage. “When I was at Juilliard, the whole training was about being a theater actor, and that was my dream — to be a great stage actress.

“The Handmaid’s Tale is just the hardest job I’ve ever had,” Elisabeth Moss told the HFPA. “The hours are tough and the producing aspect of it adds more hours to it.

With her fifth nomination for a Golden Globe (she won Best Performance by an Actress in A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in 2015 for The Honourable Woman), actress Maggie Gyllenhaal makes her debut as a director with the film The Lost Daughter for which she also wrote the screenplay based on the Italian novel by Neapolitan writer Elena Ferrante La figlia oscura. In the film, which premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, Olivia Colman is Leda, a middle-aged English teacher divorcee who decides to spend a vacation alone in a Greek sea resort.

English actor, comedian, and writer Brett Goldstein has scored his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor - Television by playing the grumpy but lovable star player turned coach Roy Kent in Ted Lasso. His first job on the award-winning show was as a writer, but after working on several episodes in the writers’ room, he had an epiphany.