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2023 Golden Globes odds guide
The 80th edition of the Golden Globes will take place on Tuesday 10th January in Beverly Hills, California, recognising the best of 2022’s films.
With 135 different nominations, including films, actors, directors and more, for an award and 27 different accolades to be won, we break down who the favourites are to scoop the most iconic prizes when the winners are announced next week.
Banshees of Inisherin head motion picture nominations
Irish duo Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell’s The Banshees of Insherin has received the most nominations for a motion picture this year, with the black comedy in the running for eight different awards varying from Best Actor/Supporting Actor to Best Picture. The movie sees Farrell and McDonagh link up again with Brendan Gleeson, forming the same trio that made the critically-acclaimed film In Bruges in 2008 (for which Farrell won best actor in the 2009 awards).
According to the markets, Farrell is the overwhelming favourite to regain his accolade from 2008, with the Irishman 1/10 to win the Best Actor for a Musical/Comedy motion picture, ahead of Daniel Craig (5/1) after the former James Bond star’s stellar performance in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Meanwhile, director Martin McDonagh likewise finds himself odds-on at 1/2 to pick up the Best Screenplay accolade for a Motion Picture, an award that has remarkably only been won by a British or Irish director four times in the past 50 years – most recently by Sam Mendes in 2020.
Additionally, Banshees is also in with a shot of winning the coveted Best Motion Picture for a Musical/Comedy, currently priced at 6/4. The outright favourite for the category is Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once at 8/13, with ‘The Daniels’ also a 5/2 threat to McDonagh’s aforementioned Best Screenplay award.
The Fabelmans leads Drama category
Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age story The Fabelmans heads a lot of the markets in the Drama category, with the film, loosely based on Spielberg’s adolescence and early days as a film director, the 4/7 frontrunner to scoop the Best Motion Picture award.
The film has been nominated for five awards, the joint-third most out of all the nominations, with Spielberg the comfortable 1/4 favourite to win the Best Director award (an accolade that encompasses both Drama and Musical/Comedy). ‘The Daniels’ find themselves 4/1 in the same market, with Martin McDonagh considered a less likely bet at 8/1.
Michelle Williams was lauded for her performance as Sammy Fabelman’s mother in the film, and is 3/1 to pick up the Best Actress award for the Drama category, with Cate Blanchett currently leading the market at 4/11 for her depiction of Linda in Todd Field’s Tar.
