Today, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker earned a total of four Golden Globe Awards nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama.
After Joker debuted at the Venice Film Festival to award-winning claim, the Joaquin Phoenix film was regarded as an early awards season contender. Today, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 77th Golden Globe Awards and Joker earned for nominations, including the best actor in a motion picture drama nod for Joaquin Phoenix.
Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker also earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director for Todd Phillips, and Best Original Score for composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. For the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe award, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will compete against The Irishman, Marriage Story, 1917, and The Two Popes.
Meanwhile, Joaquin Phoenix himself has been nominated for the Best Actor in a Motion Picture -Drama Golden Globe award alongside Christian Bale for Ford v Ferrari, Antonio Banderas for Pain and Glory, Adam Driver for Marriage Story, and Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes. Fans will be able to see if Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will win any Golden Globe awards when the ceremony airs on January 5 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC.
Here is the official synopsis for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker:
Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Joker is now playing in theaters!
Source: Golden Globes
