Golden Globes records: Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, ‘Succession,’ …

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With every annual Golden Globe nominations announcement comes the smashing of a plethora of records, and this year was no exception. Several 2023 movies and TV shows and the creatives behind them have pulled off amazing achievements just by landing on the latest ballot and deserve to be celebrated before they prepare to win or lose at the January 7 ceremony. Take a look below at our breakdown of this year’s most impressive Golden Globe nominations records, sorted by category.

FILM

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Best Drama Actor
– This year’s lineup is the first to include three Irish-born nominees: Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”), Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”), and Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers”).
– Leonardo DiCaprio (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) is, at 49, the youngest male actor to reach a lead film nominations total of 12, surpassing Jack Lemmon (54 in 1980).

Best Drama Actress
– Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) is the first Indigenous actress nominated for a theatrical film role.

Best Comedy/Musical Actor
– 27-year-old Timothée Chalamet (“Wonka”) is now the youngest man to have ever competed for all three possible film Golden Globes, supplanting James Caan (35 in 1976). He was previously nominated for “Call Me By Your Name” (2018, drama lead) and “Beautiful Boy” (2019, supporting).
– Having also been played by Gene Wilder (“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” 1972) and Johnny Depp (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” 2006), Willy Wonka is now the first film character to ever inspire three nominations in a single acting category.

Best Supporting Actor
– At 80, Robert De Niro (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) is this category’s oldest first-time nominee. The previous record holder was Christopher Plummer (80, “The Last Station,” 2010).

Best Director
– 81-year-old Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) displaces Ridley Scott (80, “All the Money in the World,” 2018) as the oldest nominee in the entire history of this category.

Best Animated Feature
– 18 years into this category’s existence, the prolific Studio Ghibli has finally achieved its first nomination for “The Boy and the Heron.”

TV

Best Drama Series
– HBO’s “Succession” has scored the most single-year nominations for any TV program (nine), breaking the previous record (eight) shared by “The Thorn Birds” (1984) and “L.A. Law” (1990).
– Netflix’s “The Crown” is the first concluded show to earn a Best Drama Series nomination for every one of its multiple seasons.

Best Drama Actor
– “Succession” actors Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, and Jeremy Strong are the first costar trio to ever directly compete for either drama lead award.

Best Drama Actress
– Keri Russell (“The Diplomat”) is the first woman to earn recognition in this category for three different series. Her previous notices came for “Felicity” (1999) and “The Americans” (2017, 2019).
– At 78, Helen Mirren (“1923”) has supplanted Christine Baranski (69, “The Diplomat,” 2022) as this category’s all-time oldest nominee.

Best Comedy Actor
– At 78, Steve Martin (“Only Murders in the Building”) improves upon his own record of oldest comedic TV lead nominee.

Best Supporting Actor
– Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck, and Alexander Skarsgård make “Succession” the first continuing drama series to receive three same-category supporting nominations at once.

Best Supporting Actress
– Meryl Streep (“Only Murders in the Building”) has broken her own record for most overall Golden Globe nominations (33, across five unique categories).

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