Kidman, Pearce, Blanchett and Watts nominated for Golden Globes

Australian actors Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Naomi Watts have been nominated for Golden Globe awards.

Kidman has been nominated for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, drama, for Babygirl, in which she plays a chief executive who becomes entangled in an affair with young intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson). In the same category, Pamela Anderson has landed her first Golden Globe nomination for The Last Showgirl.

Pearce is nominated for best supporting male actor in a film for The Brutalist, a historical drama about a Hungarian Jewish immigrant (Adrien Brody) who lands in Philadelphia in 1947.

Blanchett is nominated for best performance by a female actor in a limited series for the psychological thriller Disclaimer. She is up against Naomi Watts for her role as American socialite Babe Paley in the critically acclaimed Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical Emilia Pérez, about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to become a woman, led the nominations announced overnight with 10 nods, over other contenders including musical smash Wicked, the papal thriller Conclave and the postwar epic The Brutalist.

The young Donald Trump drama The Apprentice also landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. The president-elect has called The Apprentice a “politically disgusting hatchet job” made by “human scum”.

The embattled Globes, which are no longer presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are still in comeback mode after years of scandal and organisational upheaval.

In 2023, the association sold its assets to Eldridge Industries, owned by billionaire investor Todd Boehly, and Dick Clark Productions, part of Penske Media. The 334-member voting body is made up of entertainment journalists representing 85 countries.