Barbie, Oppenheimer lead Golden Globe nominations

Greta Gerwig's Barbie dominated the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs.

It was closely followed by its release date and meme companion Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which scored eight nominations, including best picture drama and for actors Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt.

The revamped group, now a for-profit endeavour with a larger and more diverse voting body, announced nominations overnight for its January awards show, after scandal and several troubled years, including one without a broadcast.

Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama presided over the announcements from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the show will also take place on January 7.

Films nominated for best motion picture drama included Oppenheimer, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Bradley Cooper's Maestro, Celine Song's Past Lives, Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest.

In the best motion picture musical or comedy category, Barbie was joined by Air, American Fiction, The Holdovers, May December and Poor Things.

Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things and Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon both received seven nominations each.

Poor Things saw nominations for Lanthimos, its actors Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, and Tony McNamara for screenplay.

Killers of the Flower Moon got nods for Scorsese, for direction and co-writing the screenplay with Eric Roth, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro.

Stone, who was also nominated for the Showtime series The Curse, said in a statement that she was "feeling extremely bewildered and thankful for it all".

She also said her Poor Things character Bella Baxter is her favourite and that she was "so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this magical film experience".

Barbie tied for second-most nominations in Globes history with Cabaret, from 1972.

Cillian Murphy in a scene from Oppenheimer. (Source: Associated Press)

Robert Altman's Nashville remains the record-holder with 11 nominations.

Barbie went in as a favourite and got a big boost from its three original song nominations, including I'm Just Ken, and one of the year's new categories, recognising cinematic and box office achievement.

One person who was not nominated was America Ferrera, who delivered the movie's most memorable monologue.

Succession was the top-nominated television program, with nine nods including for series stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin.

Best performance by a male actor in a drama included nominations for Murphy (Oppenheimer), Cooper (Maestro), DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon), Colman Domingo for Rustin, Andrew Scott for All of Us Strangers and Barry Keoghan for Saltburn.

The Globes won't have to worry about anyone criticising its "all male" directors this year, however. Gerwig was nominated as was Celine Song, for her romantic debut Past Lives, alongside Nolan, Scorsese, Cooper and Lanthimos.

The voting body has now grown to 300 members, following backlash to a 2021 report in the Los Angeles Times that found that there were zero Black members in the group that was then composed of only 87 foreign journalists.