Ryan Coogler, Rose Byrne, Chase Infiniti, Joachim Trier react to Golden Globe nominations

The Golden Globes nominees have been announced — as always, an eclectic and high-powered group of the biggest names from film and television.

In the lead was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” with nine nominations, adding to the Oscar favorite’s momentum and handing Warner Bros. a victory amid Netflix’s acquisition deal.

In close pursuit: Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” a Norwegian family drama about a filmmaking family, with eight nominations.

The Globes will be handed out Jan. 11, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. It will be the second time for host Nikki Glaser, who scored good reviews last year.

Here’s a collection of reactions to this year’s Globes nominations. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.

“The biggest lesson for me, and it’s gonna sound cheesy, but the biggest lesson is just how much I love my job. Professionally I’m married to cinema, and this movie felt like I was renewing my vows, if that makes sense.

“This is the best that I’ve ever seen (star Michael B. Jordan). It's crazy to say, because he’s got some pretty substantial roles in pop culture. But I had this feeling that this was the best I had ever seen him in both these roles. I think this was a role that he could only play now with this level of experience at this age. And I’m just so incredibly proud of him.” — in an Associated Press interview. Coogler was nominated as both director and producer.

I happened to wake up at 5:30. I went to check my phone and my phone was dead. So then I was trying to figure out how to get a charger and charge my phone before I could even get into contact with my family or with my team. ... I feel so lucky that I get the opportunity to to tell an incredible story like this one. I feel so lucky to be where I am at 25, and I’m in the midst of living my dream. I’m still processing the fact that I even get to be here.” — in an AP interview. Infiniti is nominated for best female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy.

“The film is a tightrope. The character is a film, and the film is a character. So I’d never done that before in a feature and it was extraordinary to have that opportunity to try. It has changed me creatively, and has stretched me in a way that I’d never had the opportunity to before.” — in an AP interview. Byrne is nominated for best female actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy.

“On having “Wicked” made into two feature films: This is something that all of us involved with the show have always talked about. It was a natural progression to start reconceiving how we would tell the story in cinematic terms. We just got very lucky with the people who helped us to tell that story ... particularly (director) Jon M. Chu, whose vision and guidance has been extraordinary. And I feel these two movies together are a really remarkable achievement on Jon's part that I think will be recognized over the years and stand the test of time.” — in an AP interview. Schwartz is nominated in the best song category for both “No Place Like Home” and “The Girl in the Bubble.”

(On collaborating with director and co-writer Chloé Zhao): "You know, the book is mine, it’s my baby, but the film is Chloé's adaptation. And the film feels not like my child, more like a kind of niece or nephew. And that’s exactly as it should be.

“Chloé is an amazing leaver of voice notes. I would wake up in Scotland and turn on my phone and there would be a series of pings, just ping ping ping ping ping — sometimes 12, sometimes 13 voice notes, some of which were 20 seconds long, and the longest ever, which I wrote down because I knew I wouldn’t believe it, it was 58 minutes. It was a veritable podcast.” — in an AP interview. O'Farrell, author of the novel “Hamnet,” was nominated for best screenplay, along with Zhao.

“I certainly consider ‘No Other Choice’ as a comedy, so I think it’s been rightfully categorized by the Golden Globes. And I’ve been categorized as making violence thrillers in the past. So to be in this category that other people would have never imagined for me, I think it makes it even more enjoyable. And I feel I’ve been redefined as a film director.” — in an AP interview, via a translator. “No Other Choice” is nominated for best motion picture, musical or comedy; best motion picture, non-English language; and best male actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy.

“You know, at this stage in my life and having a great part like this ... it just feels really good because when you do good work, hopefully it gets recognized and that’s not always the case.” — in an AP interview. Madigan is nominated for best female actor in a supporting role for “Weapons.”

BUSH: “This is an amazing moment for everyone at Disney Animation. Seven hundred people came together to make this movie from literally all over. I think we have 25 countries represented in the folks that worked on this film. And they put their hearts and souls into it and created something that I’m just so immensely proud of. And and we really did it together.”

HOWARD: “There’s this great electricity in the air ever since the film came out and just the excitement ... I’ve done films in the past that people have not gone to see in droves, and it’s much better to have people go see it in droves, and call you up and tell you. So just to say thank you, for people going out and seeing it.” —- in AP interviews. Bush and Howard are nominated for best animated movie and also in the cinematic and box office achievement category.

I’m meeting Stellan (Skarsgård) in a moment because we’re having a screening here in Paris and I’m hoping maybe this is an evening for champagne. I’m pretty sure when we’re in the home country for champagne, we should certainly have that. ...

“It’s really such a joy and we’re very humbled and grateful. It’s not what you expect for a Norwegian film, but it says something about how generous the international film world has become that we can make films in different countries, different languages and still feel that we are presented in the same context. So, we are very grateful for that.” — in an AP interview. Trier is nominated for best director of a motion picture.

Interviews were conducted by Jocelyn Noveck, Hilary Fox, Sian Watson and Jonathan Mattise.

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Chase Infiniti attends The Gotham Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Ryan Coogler attends The Gotham Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The onset of $30 million football rosters funded mostly by companies providing third-party payments to players on behalf of their schools is within the rules but “has not sort of matched” the system some of its founders intended, the head of the College Sports Commission said Tuesday.

Bryan Seeley delivered an update on the CSC's progress over the last two months. While he was bullish about the new agency's ability to analyze deals quickly, he said the influx of third-party deals — contracts that help schools blow past the $20.5 million salary cap they're allowed to pay players directly — has led to increased review times.

The CSC's new numbers, updated through February, included a 65% increase over the preceding two months in the volume of the third-party deals, which are sometimes known as associated deals, among schools in the Power Four conferences.

Seeley said those figures led him to believe that most schools are trying to follow the rules by submitting their deals for review to the CSC, which is tasked with making sure they are not simple pay-for-play contracts but have a “valid business purpose” and are priced fairly.

He also said he had been told that "there was a belief that perhaps up to 90% of deals flowing through the system would do so automatically that would not need any kind of human review.

“It must have been based on an assumption that this would be a somewhat organic market with a lot of not associated deals," he said. "And that is turning out to be not the case.”

Those associated deals have brought the CSC under scrutiny for lag time in approving contracts. More importantly, they speak to wider concerns that the cost of populating competitive college rosters has spiraled out of control less than a year into the system that was activated by the House settlement — the endgame in a lawsuit that allows schools to share revenue directly with players, then augment that through third-party deals.

The discussion has reached as far as the White House, where last week President Donald Trump held a “summit” with sports leaders to discuss ways of reining in costs.

Trump has promised an executive order this week that will address issues in an industry where, he said, “the amount of money being spent and lost by otherwise very successful schools is astounding, just in a short period of time. And it’s only going to get worse."

Seeley, still focused on standing up an agency that will play a massive role in policing college sports, said he did not want to delve into whether the current system is sustainable.

“I read the same things you read. I see the same public comments in the media and I talk to schools,” Seeley said. “And I do get the sense that some schools had the belief that the settlement as implemented had not sort of matched what they expected. I think that's a fair thing to say.”

Seeley also acknowledged the problems his 8-month-old agency could face if a “participation agreement” that vests enforcement power in the CSC isn't signed by all 68 of the Power Four schools.

Shortly after the CSC distributed the document, a handful of states and schools said they wouldn't sign; some were concerned about language that forbid suing the commission.

In an impassioned plea at NCAA meetings in January, Seeley urged schools to sign the deal. Nearly two months later, he said he is still waiting. Parties have spent month making tweaks, some of which “weaken the document” to the point where it might not be worth the CSC signing it, Seeley said.

“If we don’t have a participant agreement, we’re going to still try to do what we need to do,” he said. “But I think those tools are really important.”

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FILE - Bryan Seeley, a Major League Baseball senior vice president, testifies on a bill during a legislative committee hearing, March 13, 2018, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/Mitchell Willetts, File)