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Hoping to move on from past controversies, the beleagured awards are making a splashy return with two blockbusters topping the bill
While Barbenheimer might have been the dominating box office story of 2023, the new year promises a new kind of battle as the two hit movies compete for awards, kicking off this weekend with the Golden Globes.
Greta Gerwig’s Mattel comedy Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb drama Oppenheimer both lead this year’s field with eight and seven nominations apiece and while they are mostly competing in separate genre categories – comedy/musical and drama – it’s likely the two films will still monopolise the night. Last year the two films combined made over $2bn at the global box office.
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