Golden snubs and surprises, including little ‘Cats’ love

Some Golden Globe minations seemed like locks: Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hanks, am Driver and Eddie Murphy. But ors were happy shocks, like Awkwafina nabbing a best actress mination for musical or comedy. Or table snubs and surprises:

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Only men me best director category: Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite,” Sam Mendes with “1917,” Todd Phillips for “Joker,” Martin Scorsese with “ Irishman” and Quentin Taranti’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.” table female directors snubbed this year include Greta Gerwig of “Little Women,” Marielle Heller, who directed “A Beautiful Day in Neighborhood,” Lulu Wang of “ Farewell” and Lorene Scafaria of “Hustlers.”

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“When y See Us,” searing TV series on plight of Central Park Five got ds despite critical acclaim. four-part Netflix series explores true story of five black and Lati teenrs from Harlem who were coerced into confessing to a rape y didn’t commit in 1989. Show creator Ava DuVernay was also snubbed at Emmys in directing and writing categories, although Jharrel Jerome won for best le actor in a limited series.

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Although Hollywood Foreign Press Association was shown an unfinished cut of Tom Hooper’s film “Cats,” group chose t to give it any acting, directing or technical minations. film aptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical stars Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson and Taylor Swift. It’s in aters Dec. 20. film did earn Taylor Swift and Lloyd Webber ds for writing song “Beautiful Ghosts.”

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