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The Golden Globes and SAG awards — a Jewish nominee scorecard.

Nate Bloom
| Special to the Jewish News

T

he Golden Globe Awards
(8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, on
NBC) begin what’s known
as awards season. The next biggie
is the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG)
awards, which airs on both TNT
and TBS at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
30. Look for a Jewish Grammy (8
p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, on CBS)
and Oscar (Sunday, Feb. 28, on
ABC) roundup in these pages next
month.
The Globes, awarded by
the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association, are viewed as a pretty
good predictor of Oscar wins, and
the relaxed ceremony atmosphere
makes it fun to watch. Globes are
awarded for both film and TV
work. The lead actor/actress cat-
egories in film, and the best film
category, have separate nominees
for drama and for musical and/or
comedy.

Amy Schumer

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GLOBE FILM NOMINEES
Lead Actress, comedy: Amy
Schumer, 34, Trainwreck. This
mega-hit film has turned Schumer
from a minor celeb into the com-
edy “It Girl” of 2015. Best support-
ing actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh,
53, The Hateful 8.
Best Director: Todd Haynes,

54 (Carol); Best Screenplay: Josh
Singer, 43 (Spotlight, with Tom
McCarthy); also Aaron Sorkin, 54
(Steve Jobs). Singer’s highly lauded
script will almost certainly get an
Oscar nom, too. Every year, the
Globes have a few quirky nomi-
nations and Sorkin’s screenplay,
which got more pans than raves, is
a Globe quirk.
Best Original Song: “See You
Again” (from Furious 7), co-written
by Charlie Puth, 24, who also is a
Grammy nominee this year. After
recently finding out Puth’s mother
is Jewish, I viewed his videos on
YouTube (he sings, too). He’s a
charming, nice young man, whose
other hit, “Marvin Gaye,” is a
peppy pop song that could play on
Broadway.
Best Animated Film: Anomalisa,
which was directed and written by
Charlie Kaufman, 57. He’s best
known for his quasi-fantasy films
like Being John Malkovich. Jennifer
Jason Leigh voiced one of three
characters in this film.
Best Foreign Film: Son of Saul,
directed and written by Laszlo
Nemes, 38, a Hungarian-born Jew
who grew up mostly in France.
It follows 48 hours in the life of a
Hungarian Jew forced to remove
bodies from the Treblinka gas
chambers. He sets out to give a
young boy a proper burial, with a

rabbi.
The best film awards go to the
principal producers. However, I am
listing those “best of ” films with a
significant Jewish connection other
than just a Jewish producer.
Best Drama film: Carol, directed
by Todd Haynes. Carol, like his
previous hit film, Far From Heaven,
is about a concealed gay relation-
ship. In 2011, Haynes, whose
mother is Jewish, said: “Judaism is
an important part of my identity
… I wish my last name was not so
waspy … all my films are about
resilient outsiders, whether in
terms of race or sexual orientation,
and I think I inherited that from
[my Jewish grandfather, a social/
political activist].”
Also competing in this category
are Room and Spotlight. Room was
directed by Lenny Abrahamson,
49, an Irish Jew. Spotlight was
co-written by Josh Singer and co-
stars Liev Schreiber, 48, as Marty
Baron, 60, the (real-life Jewish)
Boston Globe editor who led the
team that uncovered the Boston
pedophile priest scandal.
Best Musical or Comedy film:
Joy, directed and written by David
O. Russell, 57. It competes with
Trainwreck, which was directed
by Judd Apatow, 48, and was co-
written by Amy Schumer, who
also starred. Also in this category

