Golden Globes 2018: What to Know

On Jan. 7, 2018, The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA will host the 75^th annual Golden Globe Awards. Dedicated to honoring the very best in film and American television of the past year, the Golden Globes are a premier evening for the celebrities. Hosted by talk-show host Seth Meyers, the Golden Globes will honor the likes of Oprah Winfrey with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award along with industry leaders and prolific productions.

The Golden Globes will honor the film industry with 14 different awards categories and television with 11 different categories. Categories include Best Actor and Best Actress, Best Drama, Best Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and many more, spread across both mediums. For the 75^th Golden Globes, several productions have earned multiple nominations across different categories.

The Shape of Water, Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy movie, has seven nominations in Best Drama, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score. For television, HBO’s miniseries Big Little Lies goes into the award ceremony with six nominations, with two in Best Actress and two in Best Supporting Actress along with Best Supporting Actor, and Best Miniseries or Television Film.

The complete lists of nominees include:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

"Call Me by Your Name"

"Dunkirk"

"The Post"

"The Shape of Water"

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Jessica Chastain - "Molly's Game"

Sally Hawkins - "The Shape of Water"

Frances McDormand - "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"

Meryl Streep - "The Post"

Michelle Williams - "All the Money in the World"

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Timothée Chalamet - "Call Me by Your Name"

Daniel Day-Lewis - "Phantom Thread"

Tom Hanks - "The Post"

Gary Oldman - "Darkest Hour"

Denzel Washington - "Roman J. Israel, Esq."

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

"The Disaster Artist"

"Get Out"

"The Greatest Showman"

"I, Tonya"

"Lady Bird"

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

Judi Dench - "Victoria & Abdul"

Helen Mirren - "The Leisure Seeker"

Margot Robbie - "I, Tonya"

Saoirse Ronan - "Lady Bird"

Emma Stone - "Battle of the Sexes"

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

Steve Carell - "Battle of the Sexes"

Ansel Elgort - "Baby Driver"

James Franco - "The Disaster Artist"

Hugh Jackman - "The Greatest Showman"

Daniel Kaluuya - "Get Out"

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro - "The Shape of Water"

Martin McDonagh - "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"

Christopher Nolan - "Dunkirk"

Ridley Scott - "All The Money in the World"

Steven Spielberg - "The Post"

Best TV series - Drama

"The Crown"

"Game of Thrones"

"The Handmaid's Tale"

"Stranger Things"

"This Is Us"

Best TV series - Comedy or Musical

"Black-ish"

"Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

"Master of None"

"SMILF"

"Will & Grace"

Big Little Lies, HBO

Behind the Golden Globes is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a non-profit organization comprised of film and television journalists and photographers. The main focus of the association is providing support for the “educational and cultural non-profit organizations whose primary focus is the entertainment industry.” Originally founded in 1943, the association is comprised of 90 members hailing from 55 countries.

The 1^st Golden Globe Awards was held in 1944, honoring the best in 1943 filmmaking. The annual event has been held live for award recipients, presenters, and other industry professionals each year except for 2008. Due to the Writers Guild of America strike, the Golden Globes ceremony was replaced by a news conference held on Jan. 14, 2008.