Golden Globes 2020: ‘Marriage Story,’ ‘Irishman’ aim for Oscar momentum as awards season kicks off

Hollywood has plenty of gold to give out this awards season, and the first major prizes of 2020 will be doled out Sunday night at the 77th annual Golden Globes.

Hosted for the fifth time by comedian Ricky Gervais, the glitzy (and now meatless) extravaganza (NBC, 8 p.m. ET/5 ET) put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is the first big stop on the road to next month’s Academy Awards and will begin to suss out the contenders from the pretenders.

Three Netflix movies – Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed gangster epic “The Irishman,” Noah Baumbach’s divorce drama “Marriage Story” and the religious dramedy “The Two Popes” – will compete for best drama against World War I thriller “1917” and villainous origin story “Joker.” Meanwhile the category for the night’s other big prize, best comedy or musical, includes comedy biopic “Dolemite Is My Name,” World War II satire “Jojo Rabbit,” murder mystery “Knives Out,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s-set “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and Elton John musical/biopic “Rocketman.”

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Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”) leads the contingent for best actor in a drama alongside Christian Bale (“Ford v Ferrari”), Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”), Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”) and Jonathan Pryce (“The Two Popes”). Renee Zellweger is a favorite for best actress in a drama, a category featuring Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”), Scarlett Johansson (“Marriage Story”), Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”) and Charlize Theron (“Bombshell”).

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Up for best actor in a comedy or musical is Daniel Craig (“Knives Out”), Roman Griffin Davis (“Jojo Rabbit”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”) and Eddie Murphy (“Dolemite Is My Name”). And the group competing for best actress in a comedy or musical includes Awkwafina (“The Farewell”), Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”), Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”), Emma Thompson (“Late Night”) and Cate Blanchett (“Where’d You Go, Bernadette”).

Check back here at 8 p.m. ET for all the Globes highlights.

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