BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – The Golden Globes will return in January with major star appeal thanks to a slew of A-list nominees, including Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Denzel Washington, Ariana Grande and more.

Nominations for the 82nd Awards Ceremony were announced on Monday. The show will be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+ on January 5.

Here are the key things to know about the ceremony:

Who hosts the Golden Globes?

Comedian and actor Nikki Glaser has been chosen to host next year’s ceremony.

Glaser has made a name for himself with his quick wit, particularly during roasts, including recently. for Tom Brady, who she pointed to for his complex love life and his one-off advocacy for crypto. She got an Emmy nomination for his latest special, “Someday You’ll Die” for HBO, which dealt with everything from offering to pay for his friends’ abortions to his darker pornographic habits.

Glaser has cited Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Ricky Gervais as inspirations. She will follow last year’s host Jo Koy, who was slammed by critics for her awkward opening monologue and rushed pacing.

Who is nominated for the Golden Globes this year?

Jacques Audiard’s daring musical comedy “Emilia Pérez”, about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman, leads all candidates with 10.

That puts it ahead of other contenders like the musical hit “Wicked,” the papal thriller “Conclave” and the postwar epic “The Brutalist.”

“The Apprentice,” about Donald Trump as a young man, also landed nominations for its two central performances, per Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong like Roy Cohn.

“The Bear” leads all television nominees with five.

With his 11th nomination, Denzel Washington is the most nominated black artist at the Globes.

Steve Martin is nominated for the fourth consecutive year in the category of best television actor in a musical or comedy series for “Only Murders in the Building”. The nomination marks her ninth win overall and could be her first-ever Globes win.

There are 26 first-time nominees, including Grande, Dakota Fanning, Glaser, Seth Meyers, Zoe Saldaña and Pamela Anderson — who surprisingly earned a nod for “The Last Showgirl.”

The Globes, no longer presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are still in comeback mode after years of scandal and organizational upheaval.

You can see a full list of nominees here:

What are the Golden Globes?

The Globes are the first major ceremony of the awards season. They’re not exactly a bellwether for the Oscars, but they’re known for a few things: being a boozy, sometimes irreverent party, and a glamorous gathering of TV and film’s biggest stars.

A win at the Globes can help build momentum for a film or actor’s Oscar campaign. As the first televised awards ceremony of the year, they are ahead of similar ceremonies like the Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Awards and are nearly two months away from the Academy Awards, which this year will take place on 2 March.

Double nominees please

Stan, Kate Winslet and Selena Gomez are all double nominated.

Gomez is up for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for “Emilia Pérez” and best performance by an actress in a television musical or comedy series for “Only Murders in the Building.”

Winslet is nominated for both best performance by an actress in a drama for “Lee” and best performance by an actress in a limited television anthology series for “The Regime.”

Stan earned a nomination for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama for “The Apprentice” and Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Musical or Comedy for “A Different Man.”

Who will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes?

Viola Davis will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her decorated career, featuring a series of powerful roles from ” Fences ” has ” The woman king.”

The actor has received praise for a series of fascinating characters in films such as “The Help”, ” Ma Rainey’s black background » and “Doubt”, while captivating viewers through the legal thriller “How to Get Away with Murder”.

The DeMille Award has been presented to 69 of Hollywood’s top talents. Past recipients include Tom Hanks, Jeff Bridges, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand and Sidney Poitier.

Who will be the next Carol Burnett Award winner?

THE Golden Globes raise a glass to the former ‘Cheers’ star Ted Danson naming him the winner of the Carol Burnett Award.

Danson, a three-time Globe winner, has been a television staple since he made his debut as Boston bartender Sam Malone on the NBC comedy “Cheers.” His other credits include “The Good Place,” “Mr. Mayor,” “Fargo,” “CSI” and “CSI: Cyber,” “Damages” and “Becker.”

Danson currently stars in Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside,” which earned him his first nomination since 2008 and 13th overall.

The Carol Burnett Award was inaugurated in 2019 and is given to a winner who has “made an outstanding contribution to television, on-screen or off-screen.”

Past recipients include Norman Lear, Ryan Murphy and Ellen DeGeneres. The first was Burnett herself.

Danson and Viola Davis will be congratulated at a gala dinner on January 3 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. For the first time, the Globes will host a separate event dedicated to the two awards.

What will the stars eat at the Globes?

The Golden Globes, known as the “party of the year,” will bring back celebrity-loved Nobu Restaurants Group.

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa returns with several signature dishes, highlighted by the Gold Standard Roll – sushi featuring king crab inside, topped with salmon, gold flakes and caviar, and yuzu sauce on the side. The dish is served at the restaurant for $77.

Other Matsuhisa dishes include seaweed tacos, yellowtail jalapenos, sashimi salad, black cod and three pieces of tuna, whitefish and salmon sushi.

“It’s kind of like a harmony with caviars and jalapenos,” said Matsuhisa, who served iconic Japanese dishes at last year’s ceremony.

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