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Golden Globe Preview

All things Jewish in the upcoming awards show.

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

D.B. Weiss and David Benioff

The 2017 Golden Globe Awards, the 74th,
mark the opening of the awards season,
honoring the best and brightest in film and
television from 2016. It’s also a fun party to
watch — this year, Jimmy Fallon will host as
it airs at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8, on NBC. Here,
our own annual roundup of “who’s a Jew.”
Here are the Jewish acting nominees in
the TV categories. Lead actor, drama: Liev
Schreiber, Ray Donovan; lead actor, musical
or comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent;
lead actress, drama: Winona Ryder, Stranger
Things, and Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld;

Winona Ryder

lead actress, musical or comedy series:
Tracee Ellis Ross, Blackish, Rachel Bloom,
My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Sarah Jessica
Parker, Divorce. Note: Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
Mandy Moore and Lily Collins are also nomi-
nated for their movie or TV work — all have
a Jewish grandfather, but don’t identify as
Jewish.
Other categories: Kenneth Lonergan,
the director and writer of Manchester By the
Sea, is the sole Jewish nominee in the (film)
directing and screenwriting categories; best
original film score: Justin Hurwitz, La La

Liev Schreiber

Justin Hurwitz

Jill Soloway

Land, and Hans Zimmer, Hidden Figures;
best original film song: City of Gold (La La
Land), Justin Hurwitz and Benj Pasek.
Here are the other “best of” catego-
ries with a Jewish director, screenwriter
or (TV-show) creator. Best drama film:
Manchester By the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan;
best musical or comedy film: Florence Foster
Jenkins, directed by Stephen Frears.
Best TV series, drama: The Crown, cre-
ated and written by Peter Morgan; Game
of Thrones, created by David Benioff and
D.B. Weiss (and often written by them);

and This is Us, created and written by
Dan Fogelman. Best musical or com-
edy TV series: Mozart in the Jungle, Jason
Schwartzman and Paul Weitz (co-creators)
and Transparent, Jill Soloway (creator and
main writer). Best TV movie or mini-series:
The Dresser (based on a play by Ronald
Harwood), The Night Manager, directed by
Susanne Bier, The Night Of, Richard Price
(co-creator) and The People v. O.J. Simpson
(based on a book by Jeffrey Toobin, who
also helped co-write the TV series).
Note: Lead actress (drama) nominee
Isabelle Hupert had a Jewish
father (see “Celebrity Jews” in the
Dec. 29 issue), but was raised in
her mother’s Catholic faith. Also,
nominee Andrew Taylor-Jones,
nominated for supporting actor,
film (Nocturnal Animals), once
called himself Jewish, but details
have yet to arise.

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