Nominee

For someone who has no patience sitting in the makeup chair, John C. Reilly endured hours being made up to resemble Oliver Hardy in Stan & Ollie.

In many ways, Nicole Kidman is the very embodiment of a fearless actor. In 2018 alone, the Australian actress has cinematically walked in the shoes of an Atlantis Queen, a Baptist minister’s wife and a beaten and battered police detective - a brazen role that secured Kidman her 13th Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for her portrayal of Erin Bell in Destroyer.

In adolescence, kids only a couple years older can seem so much more sophisticated that they’re almost from another planet. Hollywood entertainment perhaps unwittingly helps reinforce this psychological divide, often casting performers in their 20s as high school students and older teenagers as middle school students, in order to avoid some of the protective mechanisms of American child labor laws for younger actors.

Christian Bale has previously undergone some famously massive physical transformations as part of his work. He lost more than 60 pounds (28.

Regina King is an anomaly in Hollywood in that she was born here. And this native of Los Angeles has only good things to say about her birthplace: “I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities.

Clad in corsets and elaborate gowns, Golden Globe winner Rachel Weisz plays the scheming Lady Marlborough in Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical farce The Favourite. In the film, the conniving aristocrat has her own agenda and is – in essence – running the country as well as circles around her male counterparts.

When British stage, film and TV actress Olivia Colman won her first Golden Globe two years ago for the mini-series The Night Manager, she was conspicuously absent from the Beverly Hilton, because she had to be on another stage a continent away: “I couldn’t come because I was in a play in London and there is no such thing as getting two days off to fly to Hollywood!”, she laughs. Born in Norwich, Norfolk this married mother of three began her career in theater and only became a household name at an age where typical Hollywood actresses begin worrying about roles drying up in a still ageist industry.

As a child, Lin-Manuel Miranda could not finish watching the original Mary Poppins. Because as soon as he heard Julie Andrews sing the melancholic “Feed the Birds”, he would cry.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, more popularly known as Lady Gaga, was only three years old when she discovered her love for music. She played the piano, became good at it, and believes it is the thing that she is the greatest at.

Mahershala Ali, nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Globe in 2016 for Moonlight, (for which he won at the Academy), has another shot at the Globe this year, albeit in a vastly different role. Ali could play any role with ease and conviction, transforming from a tough yet sensitive drug dealer in Moonlight to high-class artist.