The Most Expensive Movies Nominated for Golden Globes This Year

Better late than never — the 2021 awards season kicks off Feb. 28 with the 78th Golden Globes. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association postponed the glitzy award show by nearly two months, but the show will go on.

As with most events right now, the Golden Globes will look very different this year. Beloved comedic duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will share hosting duties for the virtual event from opposite sides of the country — New York City’s Rainbow Room and the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California, respectively.

Instead of dressing in their finest and gathering in the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom, nominees will make virtual appearances from around the globe. The format is different, but the night will still be all about celebrating the work of your favorite stars.

There’s been no shortage of amazing films released within the last year, and many weren’t cheap to make. Here’s a look at the movies nominated for Golden Globes this year with the largest production budgets.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $4 million
• Categories nominated: Best Foreign Language Film (Denmark)

Four friends — who are all high school teachers — band together to test the idea that maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood will enhance their lives.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $5 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Andy Samberg)

Starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti and J.K. Simmons, things get dicey at a Palm Springs wedding when two guests find themselves continuously reliving the same day.

• Total nominations: 4
• Production budget: $4 million-$7 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Frances McDormand), Best Director (Chloé Zhao), and Best Screenplay (Chloé Zhao)

A woman — played by Frances McDormand — takes a journey through the American West in her van, after losing everything in the recession.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $10 million
• Categories nominated: Best Foreign Language Film (USA)

A Korean family moves to an Arkansas farm to create their own version of the American Dream.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $10 million
• Categories nominated: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Anya Taylor-Joy)

Set in 1800s England, Emma Woodhouse meddles in her friends’ love lives in the latest take on the Jane Austen classic.

• Total nominations: 4
• Production budget: Less than $20 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Anthony Hopkins), Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Olivia Colman), and Best Screenplay (Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampton)

Olivia Coleman stars as a woman who tries to find a caretaker for her stubborn father — played by Anthony Hopkins — with dementia.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $12.5 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Lin-Manuel Miranda)

Filmed live at the Richard Rogers Theater in New York City, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s original Broadway musical tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $14 million
• Categories nominated: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Tahar Rahim) and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Jodie Foster)

After being detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government for years without charge, Mohamedou Ould Salahi fights for freedom. The star-studded cast includes Tahar Radim, Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shailene Woodley.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $15.6 million
• Categories nominated: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Dev Patel)

Set in Victorian England, this reimagined take on Charles Dickens’ classic tale follows a young orphan’s journey to becoming a successful writer in Victorian England.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $16 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Kate Hudson)

Newly sober Zu finds out she will become the sole guardian of her half-sister Music, who is on the autistic spectrum. Written and directed by Sia, the starry cast includes Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Maddie Ziegler.

• Total nominations: 3
• Production budget: $17 million
• Categories nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Leslie Odom Jr.), Best Director (Regina King), and Best Original Song (“Speak Now” by Sam Ashworth & Leslie Odom Jr.)

It didn’t happen in real life, but imagine one amazing night where Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown come together to discuss their parts in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural uproar of the 1960s.

• Total nominations: 3
• Production budget: $10 million-$20 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Sacha Baron Cohen), and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Maria Bakalova)

Sacha Baron Cohen resumes the role of Borat, who returns to America with his 15-year-old daughter after being released from prison for bringing shame to his country.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $26 million
• Categories nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Original Song (“Fight for You” by D’Mile, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas)

Career thief William O’Neal serves as an FBI informant who infiltrates the Black Panther Party to maintain a watchful eye on their leader, Chairman Fred Hampton. O’Neal enjoys the danger of manipulating his associates and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell, but must align with one side or the other.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $30 million
• Categories nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Jared Leto)

When Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles to gather evidence for an assignment, he becomes entangled in a search for a serial killer. Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto star in the film.

• Total nominations: 5
• Production budget: $30 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Sacha Baron Cohen), Best Director (Aaron Sorkin), Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin), and Best Original Song (“Hear my Voice” by Celeste & Daniel Pemberton)

The uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago landed seven people on trial for various charges. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, the film stars Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp and Sacha Baron Cohen.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $20 million-$30 million
• Categories nominated: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Chadwick Boseman) and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Viola Davis)

Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Glynn Turman, tensions rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when feisty blues singer Ma Rainey and her band hold a recording session.

• Total nominations: 6
• Production budget: $20 million-$30 million
• Categories nominated: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Gary Oldman), Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Amanda Seyfried), Best Director (David Fincher), Best Screenplay (Jack Fincher), and Best Original Score (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)

Alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz shares his take on 1930s Hollywood, while he rushes to finish “Citizen Kane.”

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $38 million
• Categories nominated: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Helena Zengel) and Best Original Score (James Newton Howard)

Tom Hanks stars as a Civil War veteran tasked with delivering a girl to her biological aunt and uncle after she was taken in by the Kiowa people six years ago and raised as their own.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $45 million
• Categories nominated: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Glenn Close)

Directed by Ron Howard, a Yale law student returns to his Appalachian hometown, causing him to reflect on his family’s past and his future.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $65 million
• Categories nominated: Best Animated Feature Film

When searching for a safer habitat, the Croods find the perfect new spot, but the only drawback is their neighbors, the Bettermans. Tensions rise, but a new threat takes the families on an epic adventure that forces them to band together.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $100 million
• Categories nominated: Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat)

Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo, a global catastrophe sends a lone Artic scientist on a race to contact a crew of astronauts to warn them not to return to Earth.

• Total nominations: 2
• Production budget: $175 million
• Categories nominated: Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, & Jon Batiste)

A New York jazz pianist is suddenly trapped in a land between Earth and the afterlife in this Disney and Pixar film.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $175 million-$200 million
• Categories nominated: Best Animated Feature Film

A Disney and Pixar film, two teenage elf brothers get an unexpected chance to spend one more day with their late father.

• Total nominations: 1
• Production budget: $205 million
• Categories nominated: Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson)

Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki, a secret agent sets out on a dangerous mission to stop World War III from starting.

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Methodology: For this study piece, GOBankingRates looked at the 2021 Golden Globe nominations and found (1) movie title; (2) total nominations; and (3) categories nominated, all sourced from Variety’s round-up of nominations. Then, GOBankingRates found the (4) production budget for each film from contemporaneous sources. All data was collected on and up to date as of Feb. 3, 2020.

NOTE: Where a range was presented, GOBankingRates used the higher end of the range for ranking.