With ‘Obsession,’ Is the Golden Globes’ Comedy Race the New Home for Category Fraud?

With ‘Obsession,’ Is the Golden Globes’ Comedy Race the New Home for Category Fraud? hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 15, 2026 1:00pm PT With ‘Obsession,’ Is the Golden Globes’ Comedy Race the New Home for Category Fraud? Awards Circuit Column: Will the Globes enforce its rules to stop drama-heavy films from running as comedies?

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Campaigners submit films, shows and individual performances in categories they have no business being in, like a drama masquerading as a comedy or a blatant leading role being tipped for a supporting category. Industry reactions to some of these bold decisions, however, feel louder this year.

Related Stories ‘The Mummy 4’ With Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Officially Titled ‘The Mummy: The Book of the Dead’ This creative maneuvering with category submissions happens for a reason: to improve the perceived odds of winning a trophy. Yet increasingly, the misrepresentations are spilling into broader industry discourse.

(Just Google the limited series “The Beast in Me,” which was greenlit for a second season and Emmy winner Matthew Rhys.) Popular on Variety This year, these so-called crimes seem to be targeting comedy categories. Curry Barker’s “ Obsession ,” made for $750,000 and now surpassing $500 million worldwide, was submitted by Focus Features as a musical or comedy for the Golden Globes , putting breakout star Inde Navarrette in the comedy actress race.

Yes, there are laughs. But by and large, audiences were exposed to the horrors of a woman robbed of control over her own mind and body.

Not long after, Bleecker Street submitted Mike Leigh’s “ Tender Loving Care ” in the same comedy categories. Barely anyone blinked, perhaps because so few have seen it yet.

The film features drunken sing-alongs and dancing with abandon in the family kitchen. It also features hospital visits and aging parents coming to terms with the final chapters of life.

Hardly a laughing matter for anyone who has seen their loved ones slow down. A chuckle does not equate to comedy.

The strategists know it, and so do the Globes. What’s missing is the nerve to define it and, more importantly, enforce it.

This dilemma isn’t new. A decade ago, Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” won the Golden Globe for best motion picture comedy.

You know, the one about a man stranded on Mars, trying not to starve to death. Wonder if the Globes will remember that when Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary” comes calling, with Ryan Gosling and an adorable alien rock each trying to save their civilizations.

Universal entered “Get Out” as a comedy in 2017 and got away with it. Focus tried it in 2020 with “Promising Young Woman,” about a woman avenging a friend’s assault.

That time, voters said no and moved it to drama. The current Globes rulebook states a movie “primarily intended to have a serious or dramatic tone” with “comedic overtones or elements” belongs in drama.

The Globes don’t account for intent, but they make all decisions using

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