Nominee Profiles 2022

Golden Globe Nominee Billy Crudup started his career as a theatre actor in New York and, after earning a master’s degree from NYU’s Tish School of the Arts, made his debut on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. This was almost 30 years ago.

From the eccentric ice cream-hoarding mother in Mare of Easttown, to a legendary comic in Hacks, Jean Smart is having a big career moment. Both shows were renewed for second seasons, Hacks received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical or Comedy TV series, and Smart received her first Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in the same TV category.

Breaking free of the Twilight fame which tried to box her into the category of “the world’s sweetheart,” Kristen Stewart has nabbed her first Golden Globe nomination – for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama – portraying the People’s Princess in the film, Spencer, her performance in which she likens to jazz. She told the Venice Film Festival press that she didn’t try to “do a perfect Princess Diana.

Anyone looking back into the history of the moving picture would find a long list of films about how women live, think, feel, love, and hate, directed and written by men. For filmmaker Jane Campion, diving deep into the world of pure masculinity in The Power of the Dog – in the Wild West, of all places – was an exercise in subtlety and creativity that balances the narrative.

This moment, and this film, may have been inevitable for Ruth Negga. "I wanted to be an actor since I saw David Bowie walking down a set of stairs in (the 80s fantasy film) Labyrinth," she says.

Kaitlyn Dever moved to Los Angeles from Dallas with her family in 2011, soon after being cast in the television crime series Justified. She was 13.