Big Little Lies was the early one to beat at this year’s Golden Globes as it received six early nominations.
The 75th annual Golden Globe Awards announcements were announced on Monday morning as Hollywood still stands in the shadow of sexual misconduct scandals which have hit the headlines over the past year.
In the first part of the announcement, the Reese Witherspoon-produced series about the secrets of a well-heeled California suburb looked set to be a main contender at the 2018 prizegiving.
Tough competiotion: Big Little Lies was the early one to beat at this year’s Golden Globes as it received six early nominations
The show picked up a nod in the Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television category alongside Fargo, Feud: Bette and Joan, Top of the Lake: China Girl The Sinner.
Witherspoon sees herself up alongside co-star Nicole Kidman in the Best Actress TV category alongside Jessica Biel (The Sinner), Susan Sarandon (Feud).
A second batch of nominees will follow live on NBC’s Today show, where less than two weeks earlier, longtime host Matt Lauer was fired following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
Lauer was just the latest media figure to be toppled by the ongoing revelations that have followed the ouster of former Weinstein Co. co-chairman Harvey Weinstein.
Kevin Spacey – who picked up a Globe for his turn in now axed Netflix show House of Cards in 2013 – has faced a series of sexual misconduct claims on and off film and TV sets.
As a co-star in Ridley Scott’s upcoming All the Money in the World, Spacey – whose performance has been now been removed in reshoots – could have expected to have been nominated for his role.
Amazon’s Transparent and star Jeffrey Tambor have also been regular Globes nominees, and could be again Monday for the show’s fourth season. Two women have come forward in the past month to accuse Tambor of sexual harassment, including co-star Trace Lysette and his former assistant. Tambor has said ‘the idea that I would deliberately harass anyone is simply and utterly untrue’.
The Globes will be the most prominent platform yet in Hollywood’s awards season to confront the post-Weinstein landscape. Presented and chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, their deliberations aren’t representative of the larger industry. The HFPA is composed of approximately 90 largely unknown international journalists.
This year will be hosted by Seth Meyers on January 7.