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2024 Golden Globe nominees with Wisconsin ties include Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Two Wisconsin natives will go head-to-head at the Golden Globes — and for performances in the same movie.

Appleton native Willem Dafoe and Kenosha's Mark Ruffalo were both nominated Monday for Golden Globe Awards for best supporting actor in a movie for "Poor Things." The surreal comedy, starring Oscar front-runner Emma Stone, is opening in Milwaukee theaters Dec. 22.

Willem Dafoe, left, and Mark Ruffalo take part in a Q&A after a screening of "Poor Things" in New York City this month. Dafoe, an Appleton native, and Ruffalo, who grew up in Kenosha, were both nominated for a Golden Globe Monday for best supporting actor in a movie.

Ruffalo won a Golden Globe in 2021, for best actor in a limited series or motion picture made for television for "I Know This Much Is True." He was nominated three times before that: for best actor in a comedy motion picture for "Infinitely Polar Bear" (2015), best actor in a miniseries or TV movie for "The Normal Heart" (2014) and best supporting actor in a movie for "Foxcatcher" (2014).

Dafoe, who studied theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was a member of the Milwaukee experimental theater company Theatre X, has been nominated for a Globe three times before — for best actor in a drama for "At Eternity's Gate" (2018) and for best supporting actor for "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000) and "The Florida Project" (2017).

They weren't the only actors with Wisconsin ties nominated for a Golden Globe Monday.

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Rachel Brosnahan, who was born in Milwaukee and grew up in the Chicago area, collected her fourth Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a comedy series for the final season of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." She's been nominated for all but one of the Prime Video series' five seasons and won twice, in 2018 and 2019.

Overall, "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" led among movie competitors, each with eight nominations. Among TV contenders, “Succession” led with nine nominations.

Nominees in top categories included:

Best motion picture — drama: "Anatomy of a Fall," "Killers of the Flower Moon," "Maestro," "Oppenheimer," "Past Lives," "The Zone of Interest"
Best motion picture — musical or comedy: "Air," "American Fiction," "Barbie," "The Holdovers," "May December," "Poor Things"
Best television series — drama: "1923," "The Crown," "The Diplomat," "The Last of Us," "The Morning Show," "Succession"
Best television series — musical or comedy: "Abbott Elementary," "Barry," "The Bear," "Jury Duty," "Only Murders in the Building," "Ted Lasso"

For a full list of nominees, go to goldenglobes.com.

In addition to an aggressive reorganization of its membership in response in part to reports of a dearth of Black members, the Golden Globes also added two new categories for the organization's 2024 competition: awards for best cinematic and box-office achievement and for best stand-up comedian on television.

In the box-office category, the nominees are: "Barbie," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," "John Wick: Chapter 4," "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1," "Oppenheimer," "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" and "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour."

For the best stand-up award, the contenders are: "Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact," "Chris Rock: Selective Outrage," "Ricky Gervais: Armageddon," "Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love," "Trevor Noah: Where Was I" and "Wanda Sykes: I'm an Entertainer."

After a year off prime-time TV, the 81st Golden Globes will air live on CBS on Jan. 7.