Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘La Grazia’ to submit in Best Comedy/Musical category at Golden Globes (exclusive)
La Grazia will be submitted as a comedy at the upcoming Golden Globes, Gold Derby has learned exclusively.
Star Toni Servillo would then be eligible in the Best Actor, Comedy/Musical races, alongside Timothee Chalemet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), George Clooney (Jay Kelly) and Jesse Plemons (Bugonia), among other contenders.
The film will also contend for Best Motion Picture Non-English language at the Globes. While the film is not Italy's Oscar entry given its release date in that country (that selection instead went to Francesco Costabile's Familia), it does meet the Golden Globes eligibility rules with the start of its qualifying run in Italy at the end of this year. It is eligible in all other Oscar categories, including best picture, director, and actor.
Paolo Sorrentino's film stars Servillo as the president of Italy in the final days of his term. While he's a staunch Catholic, he's confronted with deciding whether to sign into law a bill legalizing euthanasia as well as pardoning two prisoners. Despite the somber-seeming subject matter, critics have noted the "witty humor" that typically distinguishes Sorrentino's work.
La Grazia, which marks the seventh film in Sorrentino and Servillo's long collaboration, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August; its festival run also included Telluride, New York, BFI London Film Festival and AFI Fest. Mubi will release La Grazia in the U.S. on Dec. 6.
Sorrentino won a Golden Globe in 2014 for The Great Beauty for Foreign Language Film (as the category was then called); he was also nominated in 2022 for The Hand for God (also for Foreign Language Film).
Last year, Emilia Pérez won in both in the Non-English Language and Best Comedy/Musical film categories. Past Lives and Zone of Interest were also nominated in Best Drama and as well as Non-English Language.
