The Irishman, Marriage Story, The Two Popes: Netflix Leads Best Picture Nominations

The streaming service is expanding its power.

Today, December 9, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the full list of nominees for film and television awards. Here is what you need to know about the nominees.

Leaders in the nominations

First of all, it is worth adding that streaming service Netflix received the most nominations, a total of 17. Until this year, the service's films had never been nominated for the Golden Globe in the main categories. Now four films are vying for wins in them.

These are the films Marriage Story and The Irishman, as well as the series Unbelievable and The Crown.

List of films leading in number of nominations

Marriage Story — 6
The Irishman — 5
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — 5
Joker — 4
The Two Popes — 4

As for series, Unbelievable, The Crown and HBO's Chernobyl each received four nominations.

This will be the 77th Golden Globe ceremony, which will take place on January 5, 2020.

Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Irishman

Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

The film tells the story of Frank Sheeran, who got the nickname “The Irishman.” He started his career as a truck driver hauling meat until he realized he could earn more by working with local gangsters. This is how he joined the group of crime boss Russell Bufalino and later Jimmy Hoffa.

Marriage Story

Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, Merritt Wever

The film shows the divorce story of director Charlie and actress Nicole. Director Noah Baumbach, for his ability to subtly portray relationships between people, is already being called the new Woody Allen.

1917

Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Richard Madden

The events of the film take place in the spring of 1917, when the British army plans an offensive on the Hindenburg Line. The story follows two young soldiers, Blake and Schofield, who must deliver to the front line an order to call off an attack within a nearly impossible deadline. If they fail, a battalion of 1,600 soldiers will walk into an ambush. Moreover, Blake's brother serves there.

Joker

Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro

The story of a failed comedian, Arthur Fleck, who suffers from psychological problems and, before the viewer's eyes, turns into a bloodthirsty psychopath.

The Two Popes

Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce

The plot is based on real events. It unfolds when a new Pope of Rome, Francis, is elected to the Catholic throne. In 2013 he succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who had resigned in the Vatican. Now the two most influential leaders of the Catholic Church are each trying in their own way to strengthen faith in the modern world and in themselves.

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Dolemite Is My Name

Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson

The film tells the story of Rudy Ray Moore, better known under the pseudonym Dolemite, who became famous in the 1970s as a star of blaxploitation, a genre of film that is a subgenre of exploitation cinema.

Jojo Rabbit

Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson

The story of how, during World War II, a lonely German boy, Johannes “Jojo” Betzler, changed his worldview. He discovers that his single mother Rosie is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Now, with the help of his imaginary friend in the image of Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his own blind Nazism.

Knives Out

Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas, Toni Collette, Don Johnson

The film tells how famous novelist Harlan Thrombey invited a large and disjointed family to his 85th birthday in hopes of reconciling his loved ones. But during the party they discover Harlan's dead body. Detective Benoit Blanc arrives at the estate, and now each of the relatives is under suspicion.

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie

The film tells the story of television actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth, and how they navigate the changing Hollywood film industry of the late 1960s.

Rocketman

Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard

The life and career story of legendary British musician Elton John.

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Christian Bale (“Ford v Ferrari”)
Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”)
Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”)
Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”)
Jonathan Pryce (“The Two Popes”)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Renée Zellweger (“Judy”)
Charlize Theron (“Bombshell”)
Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”)
Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”)
Scarlett Johansson (“Marriage Story”)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Daniel Craig (“Knives Out”)
Roman Griffin Davis (“Jojo Rabbit”)
Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”)
Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”)
Eddie Murphy (“Dolemite Is My Name”)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Awkwafina (“The Farewell”)
Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”)
Cate Blanchett (“Where’d You Go, Bernadette”)
Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”)
Emma Thompson (“Late Night”)

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”)
Al Pacino (“The Irishman”)
Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”)
Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”)
Anthony Hopkins (“The Two Popes”)

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)
Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”)
Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”)
Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”)
Annette Bening (“The Report”)

Best Foreign Language Film

“The Farewell” (China)
“Pain and Glory” (Spain)
“Parasite” (South Korea)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (France)
“Les Misérables” (France)

Best Director

Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”)
Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”)
Sam Mendes (“1917”)
Todd Phillips (“Joker”)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

“Marriage Story” (Noah Baumbach)
“Parasite” (Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin-won)
“The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten)
“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” (Quentin Tarantino)
“The Irishman” (Steven Zaillian)

Best Animated Feature Film

“Frozen 2”
“Toy Story 4”
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”
“The Missing Link”
“The Lion King”

Best Limited Series or Television Film

“Catch-22”
“Chernobyl”
“Fosse/Verdon”
“The Loudest Voice”
“Unbelievable”

Best Actor in a Limited Series or Television Film

Christopher Abbott (“Catch-22”)
Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Spy”)
Russell Crowe (“The Loudest Voice”)
Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”)
Sam Rockwell (“Fosse/Verdon”)

Best Actress in a Limited Series or Television Film

Kaitlyn Dever (“Unbelievable”)
Joey King (“The Act”)
Helen Mirren (“Catherine the Great”)
Merritt Wever (“Unbelievable”)
Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”)

Best Supporting Actor in a Series or Television Film

Alan Arkin (“The Kominsky Method”)
Kieran Culkin (“Succession”)
Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”)
Stellan Skarsgård (“Chernobyl”)
Henry Winkler (“Barry”)

Best Supporting Actress in a Series or Television Film

Patricia Arquette (“The Act”)
Helena Bonham Carter (“The Crown”)
Toni Collette (“Unbelievable”)
Meryl Streep (“Big Little Lies”)
Emily Watson (“Chernobyl”)

Best Drama Series

“The Crown”
“The Morning Show”
“Succession”
“Big Little Lies”
“Killing Eve”

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

“Barry”
“Politician”
“Fleabag”
“The Kominsky Method”
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Brian Cox (“Succession”)
Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”)
Billy Porter (“Pose”)
Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”)
Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”)

Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama

Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”)
Olivia Colman (“The Crown”)
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”)
Reese Witherspoon (“The Morning Show”)

Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”)
Bill Hader (“Barry”)
Ben Platt (“Politician”)
Paul Rudd (“Living with Yourself”)
Rami Youssef (“Ramy”)

Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Kirsten Dunst (“On Becoming a God in Central Florida”)
Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”)
Natasha Lyonne (“Russian Doll”)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”)

Best Original Score

“Motherless Brooklyn”
“Little Women”
“Joker”
“1917”
“Marriage Story”

Best Original Song

“Beautiful Ghosts” (“Cats”)
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” (“Rocketman”)
“Into the Unknown” (“Frozen 2”)
“Spirit” (“The Lion King”)
“Stand Up” (“Harriet”)