The Golden Globes kicks off the awards party tonight - and there could be a few surprises
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While the Oscars bestows the film industry's highest honours, the Golden Globes is the ceremony that gets the awards season party started. Emilia Perez, which stars Selena Gomez and tells the story of a Mexican drug lord who changes gender, leads the nominations with 10, while postwar epic The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, has seven, and papal thriller Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, has six.
After surpassing Mamma Mia earlier this week to become the highest-grossing film ever adapted from a Broadway musical, Wicked has four nods - and seems certain to follow in the perfectly arched footsteps of Barbie by clinching the prize for cinematic and box office achievement.
The Golden Globes also celebrates TV - with The Bear, Shogun, Only Murders In The Building, Baby Reindeer, The Penguin and Monsters among the big nominees. This year's ceremony takes place in Los Angeles later today, so you'll have to stay up late if you plan to follow in the UK.
Ahead of the show, here are a few things to look out for. Musicals lead the way. All singing, often dancing - it seems the world has really been holding space for musicals over the past 12 months. Operatic musical Emilia Perez comfortably has the most nominations of all the films in the running, while Wicked, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, has been the most talked about film of the year (not least because of the viral press tour).
Both Erivo and Grande are nominated in acting categories - for Grande, it is her first Golden Globe nod for her performance as Glinda, and she competes in the best supporting female actor in a motion picture category against fellow pop star Gomez and Zoe Saldana, who also stars in Emilia Perez.
