Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Nominees:
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brad Pitt (Babylon)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)
The list of nominees in the Golden Globes category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture includes two first-timers along with other previously nominated and winning actors.
This is the fifth Golden Globes nomination for Brendan Gleeson, and the second one for his collaboration with the Golden Globe winning director Martin McDonagh since his nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy back in 2009 for McDonagh’s In Bruges. In this film an acclaimed actor and a celebrated filmmaker once again groove into the genre of tragic black comedy. The film is set in the 1920s on the fictional Irish island of Inisherin, and Gleeson stars as folk musician Colm Doherty, who abruptly begin to ignore his long-time friend and drinking buddy Pádraic Súilleabháin, played by Colin Farrell, Gleeson’s former In Bruges co-star.
For Gleeson’s co-star in The Banshees of Inisherin Barry Keoghan, this is his very first Golden Globes nomination. The now 30-year-old Irish actor, who started his acting career back in school plays, had his breakthrough role in 2017 in Yorgos Lanthimos’ psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer, in which he co-starred with Farrell, who takes the lead role in The Banshees of Inisherin. After playing a volunteer soldier in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk in 2017, Druig in Chloé Zhao’s Eternals in 2021, and a part in Matt Reeves’ The Batman in 2022, Keoghan plays Dominic Kearney, the son of Inisherin’s abusive chief of police, in McDonagh’s drama.
Brad Pitt is a two-time Golden Globe winner, and his performance in Babylon by Golden Globe winning Damien Chazelle garnered him his eighth nomination since 1995, when he was first nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his outstanding performance in Legends of the Fall. In Chazelle’s epic period comedy chronicling Hollywood’s transition from silent films to sound in the late 1920s, Pitt portrays popular silent film star Jack Conrad, whose tragic fall occurs in the context of epic shooting sets and flamboyant parties.
Ke Huy Quan is the second first-timer in this category: he garnered his nomination for his part in Everything Everywhere All at Once, an absurdist comedy-drama by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as “the Daniels”) co-executively produced by Anthony and Joseph Russo (collectively known as “the Russo brothers”). The story centers on Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) who discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent the destruction of the multiverse. Quan plays Waymond Wang, Evelyn’s husband, and his other versions in alternate universes.
For 2015 Golden Globes winner Eddie Redmayne, this is his third nomination. In Tobias Lindholm’s drama The Good Nurse, adapted from the 2013 true crime book of the same name by Charles Graeber, Redmayne co-stars with Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain playing a now-infamous caregiver who was implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients.