With eight nominations, The Banshees of Inisherin leads the race for next year’s Golden Globe Awards.

The dark comedy about friends in 1920s Ireland is nominated for best film, and four of its actors, including Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, are nominated for acting.

Next with six nominations is Michelle Yeoh’s absurdist sci-fi comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick, Daniel Craig’s Glass Onion, and White Lotus, a television comedy-drama, are all nominated for awards.

Banshees of Inisherin by nominated director Martin McDonagh reunites its original cast. In Bruges is a tragic film about friendship and toxic masculinity starring Farrell and Gleeson.

The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s film about how he developed a passion for film, is a favorite in the drama category, competing with films such as the Avatar sequel and Baz Luhrmann’s rock-and-roll epic Elvis.

Organizers of the film and television awards are striving to rehabilitate its reputation after A-listers and studios left last year’s ceremony due to the lack of diversity, corruption allegations, and unprofessionalism of the voters.

Brendan Fraser, who is nominated for best actor for his performance in The Whale, stated last month that he will not attend the Globes ceremony next year after accusing their former president of abusing him.

In 2018, he claimed that in 2003, Philip Berk, the head of the Golden Globes’ organizing organization, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), had touched his derriere. After uploading an article characterizing Black Lives Matter as a “racist hate group” in 2021, Mr. Berk was booted from the struggling organization.

In 2021, Cruise returned his three Golden Globes in protest of the ceremony’s lack of diversity, joining the ranks of celebrities who criticized the awards.

Scarlett Johansson urged others in the film business to quit the organization unless it made significant internal changes, while her Avengers co-star Mark Ruffalo described the HFPA’s improvements as “discouraging” last year.

Since then, the award’s organizers have implemented a series of public reforms, including diversifying the voting body’s background composition.

British candidates

Olivia Colman is nominated for best actress in a feature drama for her performance in Empire of Light, competing against worldwide talents such as Viola Davis for The Woman King and Cate Blanchett for Tár.

Hugh Jackman is nominated for best actor in a drama for The Son, a film about a family striving to reconcile.

Dame Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Lesley Manville, Ralph Fiennes, and Carey Mulligan are also nominated for Golden Globes.

Monday’s nominee’s list also included Eddie Redmayne, Emma D’Arcy, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Lily James, Taron Egerton, and Daisy Edgar-Jones.