Variety predicts ‘Joyland’, ‘RRR’ to lock horns at Golden Globes 2023

The Cannes winner from Pakistan Joyland might compete against India’s RRR at the 80th Golden Globes Award in January 2023, as per Variety. The publication released a list, ahead of the actual nominations, predicting which films, artists, scores and music might run for the awards next year.

For the category of The Best Non-English Film, Variety stated five names as its prediction for the Globes. Starting from RRR, an Indian film, the list named All Quiet on the Western Front from Germany, Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) from Mexico, Decision to Leave from South Korea and last but not least, Saim Sadiq’s Joyland from Pakistan.

The list named five more films that can be running in contention with these five predicted nominees. An Argentinian film titled Argentina, 1985, Close, a Belgian film, and Corsage, an Austrian film are some of the names that are in contention for the category.

Parasite, a 2019 South Korean film, is also a winner of this category along with Japan’s Drive My Car, an American film Minari and a Mexican one titled Roma.

Apart from winning the stage at Cannes, Joyland made waves at its Indian, US and UK premieres as well. It is also Pakistan’s official entry to the 95th Academy Awards for the ‘International Feature Film Award’ category. Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, and produced by Apoorva Guru Charan, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat and Lauren Mann, Joyland features Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gillani, Salman Peerzada, Sohail Sameer and Sania Saeed.