75th Golden Globes Nominees

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Mudbound)Back in 2001, hip hop empress Mary J. Blige lamented that she wanted ‘no more drama’ in her life.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (The Disaster Artist)When James Franco decided to make The Disaster Artist, a film about a film gone completely wrong, he discovered that there was a side of the unfortunate filmmaker that he respected and was drawn to: Tommy Wiseau, the director of Room, which has been called the worst movie of all time, was a dreamer. Maybe Franco also felt so drawn to Wiseau because it reminded him of his own failures.

Richard Jenkins has proved himself once again to be a versatile actor, transitioning fluidly between comedy and drama, television and film. Born in DeKalb, Illinois, Jenkins studied drama at Wesleyan University and went on to Indiana State College for graduate school.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Call Me By Your Name)“I knew I had to do this movie because it challenged me and made me nervous,” divulges Armie Hammer about his decision to tackle the role of Oliver in Call Me By Your Name. Those anxieties didn’t arise from the fact that the 31-year-old actor would be asked to do things on screen he had never done before (let’s just say it involved a peach).

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (The Greatest Showman)Ever since Hugh Jackman was a young man, the people around him knew that he belonged on stage. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Jackman started acting as early as five years old, taking dancing and singing lessons.

Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (All The Money In The World)Replacing an actor in a lead role with only four days of preparation is no easy feat, yet the great Christopher Plummer doesn’t even consider it the biggest challenge of his career. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Plummer took an early interest in the stage, acting in various productions that included ballet and opera.

Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Call Me By Your Name)Most twenty-year-olds are counting down the days to turning 21 when they can finally claim certified adulthood. Timothée Chalamet, an admitted New York theater kid, had other plans.

Nominee, Best Actress, Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy (I, Tonya)Hailing from the farmlands of Dalby, Australia, Margot Robbie has charmed audiences everywhere with her beauty, talent, and dedication to female empowerment. While initially in roles such as Laura Cameron in ABC’s Pan Am (2012) and Naomi Lapaglia in Scorsese's Golden Globe winner The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), which heavily relied on her beauty, she has come to show that she is more than just a pretty face, tackling more complex and intense roles like the dangerously sexy Harley Quinn in DC’s Suicide Squad (2016) and the disgraced and misunderstood star athlete Tonya Harding in I, Tonya (2017).

Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (The Florida Project)Willem Dafoe grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, “a quiet, conservative paper mill town” during the “Eisenhower era,” from a large middle-class family with two older brothers and five sisters, his mother was a nurse, his father a surgeon, “and both my parents worked, he says, so I was very free and a little mischievous. ” “I was a God-fearing straight kid, but I knew I wanted to become an actor, which seemed an unrealistic aspiration, because nobody I knew made their living that way.