Javier Bardem, ‘Parallel Mothers’ and Alberto Iglesias, nominated for the most controversial Golden Globes

‘Parallel Mothers’ by Pedro Almodóvar, nominated for a Golden Globe for the best film in a foreign language, Javier Bardem, who is competing for the award for the best leading actor in a dramatic film for ‘Being the Ricardos’, and Alberto Iglesias, candidate for the award for the best music for the soundtrack of ‘Parallel Mothers’, They are among the nominees for the 2022 Golden Globes.

The handover ceremony of the 79th edition of the awards provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will be held on January 9, 2022. Bardem, who thus gets his fifth nomination for these awards, will compete for the Golden Globe with Benedict Cumberbatch, nominated for ‘The Power of the Dog’; Will Smith, candidate for ‘The Williams Method’; Mahershala Ali, nominated for ‘Swan Song’ and Denzel Washington for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’.

The Spanish actor already has a Golden Globe, for the best supporting actor, for his role in ‘No country for old men’ by the Coen brothers. For its part, Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ will compete for the Golden Globe at the Best Foreign Language Film with Compartment No. 6 by Juho Kuosmanen (Finland), Drive My Car by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan), Was the Hand of God by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) and A Hero by Asghar Farhadi (Iran).

This is the ninth nomination for Almodóvar, who has already opted for this award with his films ‘Women on the edge of a nervous breakdown’, ‘Distant heels,’ All about my mother ‘,’ Talk to her ‘,’ Back ‘,’ The hugs broken ‘,’ The skin I live in ‘and’ Pain and glory ‘. On two occasions the manchego won the award, at the 2000 ceremony for ‘All about my mother’, and two years later, in 2003, for ‘Talk to her’.

Alberto Iglesias competes for the award for the best soundtrack with Hans Zimmer for ‘Dune’, Germaine Franco for ‘Encanto’, Alexandre Desplat, nominated for ‘The French Chronicle’, and with Jonny Greenwood, candidate for ‘The Power of the Dog’ . This is the second Golden Globe nomination for the Spanish composer, which was already a candidate for the award in 2008 for the music of ‘Cometas en el cielo’.

Helen Hoehne, president of the HFPA, was in charge of giving way to rapper and actor Snoop Dog to announce from the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles (California) the candidates for an edition that it has been on the air until a few months ago.

The organization itself announced that the 2022 awards were canceled after the controversy unleashed by accusations leveled at the HFPA due to the lack of diversity among its members and its unethical practices. It was not until last October when it was confirmed that there would be awards and that the gala, which still does not have any television to broadcast it in the United States after the resignation of NBC, would be held in January.