The next couple Sundays will be award-show days.
It will be the Golden Globes (8-11 p.m. ET, CBS) on Jan. 7 and Critics Choice (7-10 p.m., CW) on Jan. 14. We’ll end up hearing a lot aboug “Barbie” (shown here); we’ll also get an idea of movies to catch up on.
The shows do have other things to offer: There’s humor from the hosts – Jo Koy for the Globes, Chelsea Handler for the Critics Choice. The Globes also have a full set of TV categories. Still, the important thing may be telling us which movies to look for, pror to the Academy Award nominations (Jan. 23) and ceremony (March 10).
The Globes have 12 best-picture nominations – half for dramas and half for comedies – and Critics Choicer has 10, all in one category. Here’s a list of which films are nominated by both and which by only one. Some are already on streaming services, so we put that in parentheses; others are still in theaters and/or are being rented or sold online:
Nominated both by Golden Globes (comedy or musical) and by Critics Choice
— “American Fiction”
— “Barbie” (Max)
— “The Holdovers” (Peacock)
— “Poor Things”
Nominated by Golden Globes (drama) and Critics Choice
— :”Killers of the Flower Moon” (in theaters now; reaches Apple TV+ on Jan. 12)
— “Maestro” (Netflix)
— “Oppenheimer”
— “Past Lives”
Nominated by Globes, but not Critics Choice
— Under comedies: “Air” (Amazon Prime), “May December” (Netflix)
— Under dramas: “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Zone of Interest”
Nominated by Critics Choice, but not Globes
— “The Color Purple.” “Saltburn”