I play RockyPeter Farrelly’s thrilling film about Sylvester Stallone and the making of the classic 1976 film Rockywas submitted by distributor Amazon/MGM for consideration at the Golden Globes as a musical/comedy rather than a drama, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively learned.
This is a somewhat surprising decision, given that I play Rocky has funny moments, but was not presented as a comedy, and this Rocky himself competed at the Globes as a drama.
Assuming the classification is approved by the Golden Globes organization, the film will compete in the genre-specific Globes categories – film, actor and actress – against films like New wild horse, The invitation, The beginnings, Artificial, Obsession, Hail Mary Project And Tender loving carerather than The Odyssey, The Black Bola, Dune: Part Three, Elsinore, Children’s Club, Suddenly, Fjord And Love is possible.
Ippolito will be in the running for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy against the likes of John Malkovich (New wild horse), Ryan Gosling (Hail Mary Project), Tom Cruise (Excavator), Youra Borissov (Artificial), Seth Rogen (The invitation), Alexander Skarsgård (Wicker) and Brad Pitt (The other misadventures of Cliff Booth), rather than Andrew Scott (Elsinore), Matt Damon (The Odyssey), Robert Pattinson (Prime time), Timothée Chalamet (Dune: Part Three), Jordan Firstman (Children’s Club), Sébastien Stan (Fjord), John Turturro (The only pickpocket living in New York), Jaafar Jackson (Michael) and Pedro Pascal (Monster!).
THR recently broke the news of three other high-profile Globes categorizations: Obsession as a musical/comedy, Artificial as a musical/comedy and Children’s Club like a drama.
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