Golden Globe Nominations More Diverse Overall Than 2022, But Films With Black Themes Overlooked

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In the wake of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s diversity controversy, and their pursuit to increase representation, this year’s selection of diverse TV and film nominees in acting, songwriting, film score, directing and writing is actually up over last year’s: 30 to 26.

However, numbers don’t always tell the whole story as the town yearns for the industry to make strides in recognizing creatives whose projects are often ignored or overlooked by award org voting bodies.

This year the HFPA failed to nominate any Black films with strong themes in the Best Picture category, despite the strong lineup which included Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (soon to surpass Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with $411M+), TriStar’s Woman King (one of the highest grossing adult pics of autumn with $67.1M stateside), Apple Original Films’ Emancipation, Orion’s Till and Focus Features’ Letitia Wright Cannes title, The Silent Twins.

Black Globe 2023 nominees were down to 13 from 2022’s 16 noms. That deficit came among film nominees which saw 9 last year from such movies as King Richard, West Side Story, Respect and Passing, and 6 this year including Best Actress in a Drama Feature, Viola Davis from Woman King; Best Actress in a Supporting Role Feature for Angela Bassett and original songwriters Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Temilade Openiyi for “Lift Me Up” from Wakanda Forever; and Jeremy Pope in the Best Actor Drama Feature for A24’s The Inspection.