Nominee Profiles 2021

She first came to our attention playing the innocent Kitty Bennet in Joe Wright´s Pride & Prejudice. Then came the demanding and controversial Sissy, the wayward sister of a sex addict, in Shame, and those women trapped by systemic sexism, like the ‘60s schoolgirl seduced by an older man who almost ruined her life in An Education or the restless ‘50s mother, abandoned by her husband who has an affair with a rich man so she can support her son in Wildlife.

This year Anya Taylor-Joy received two Golden Globes nominations from the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press, as Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy for Emma. , directed by Autumn de Wilde from the 1815 novel by Jane Austen, and as Best Actress in a Television Limited Series for The Queen’s Gambit created by Scott Frank from the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis.

Since the musical Hamilton premiered on Broadway in 2015 and achieved pop-culture phenomenon status, Lin-Manuel Miranda has become a household name. 2020, however, was definitely a year that consolidated the artist’s gravitas in the core of the entertainment industry.

There is an ever-powerful light that shines inside Frances McDormand as she plays the starring role in Writer/Director Chloé Zhao’s inspiring docu-fiction drama Nomadland. The seven-time Golden Globe nominee, who for the last 40 years has played an array of strong women, many of whom were from rural areas in the country, portrays Fern, a 61-year-old working-class house-less woman, who not only lost her job and husband but is forced out of her home and on to the road.

Gary Oldman is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television and an impressive repertoire under his belt. With movies such as Sid and Nancy, True Romance, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Darkest Hour, in which his portrayal of Winston Churchill won multiple awards, including a Golden Globe and Oscar, Oldman is without a doubt a force of nature.

A 1971 documentary film had a very factual title: The Murder of Fred Hampton. The title of a feature film exactly fifty years later describes the same subject in biblical terms: Judas and the Black Messiah.

Her website is crowned by a winged capital letter Z. What that means, explains a voice on her podcast, is Ein großes Z und ein kleiner Engel (A big Z and a little angel).

Viola Davis is an established performer with a long list of commanding characters among her many credits, including Annalise Keating in the hit small screen legal thriller How To Get Away With Murder, which last year wrapped its sixth and final season. But it’s still astonishing to behold the boldness and sheer dominating energy she brings to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, in a role for which Davis recently received a Golden Globe nomination, her sixth overall, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

At 83 years of age, Hollywood legend Sir Anthony Hopkins is on top of his game. A star of the stage and screen, he has built an incredibly successful career lasting over 60 years, portraying roles ranging from the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 to playing a humble butler in The Remains of the Day which also earned him worldwide award nominations.

Michelle Pfeiffer’s Golden Globe-nominated performance as Frances Price in French Exit.