Dec 6, 2018

"Future", "Spider-Man" topped the Golden Globe nomination

The Golden Globes are growing up. Long gone are the days when they would nominate films like Cars 2 and The Bee Movie.

A year after the awards show made history by nominating two European animated features, they made history again this year by nominating a Japanese animated feature for the first time, Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai.

Mirai is joined by Wes Anderson's PG-13 stop-motion tale Isle of Dogs, Sony's wildly-experimental-by-Hollywood-standards superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and two Disney-produced sequels, Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet. (It's worthwhile to note that, with the exception of Mirai, every nominated film has at least one director who has previously been nominated for a Golden Globe in the feature animation category.)

The other noteworthy inclusion on the list is Spider-Man, which has been building intense buzz over the last month, garnering stellar reviews from critics and strong support from major figures in the live-action film world, such as Guillermo del Toro:

If there was a snub in the category, it's the exclusion of the Hungarian hand-drawn feature Ruben Brandt, Collector, which is being released in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics. The film has a low profile heading into awards season, and furthermore, it's adult-oriented, which never seems to help an animated film when it's time for awards.

We identified the Milorad Krstic-directed film as our top foreign animation pick, writing, “It's stylistically audacious - using cubism-inspired 2d animation - and philosophically fascinating, as it explores the transformative nature of art.” But when an awards show nominates two family-friendly Disney films, good luck slipping in a psychological action-crime thriller nominated into that same category.

Here again are the Golden Globe nominees for 2018's best animated feature:

Incredibles 2 dir. Brad Bird (Disney-Pixar / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Isle of Dogs dir. Wes Anderson (Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures / Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Mirai dir. Mamoru Hosoda (Studio Chizu / GKIDS)

Ralph Breaks the Internet dir. Phil Johnston, Rich Moore (Walt Disney Animation Studios / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman (Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation / Sony Pictures Releasing)

The Golden Globes, now in its 76th year, are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a group of foreign journalists that covers the Hollywood entertainment industry for international publications.

The awards will be presented on Sunday, January 6, 2019.