Golden Globe nominations set tone for Hollywood’s pandemic awards season

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LOS ANGELES — The unveiling of the Golden Globes nominations on Wednesday will jumpstart a Hollywood awards season like no other, with pandemic-related theater closures and blockbuster delays expected to boost smaller, stay-at-home movies like Netflix’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Mank.”

The influential Globes are often a bellwether for any given film’s success at the Oscars, but all bets are off in a year that has seen glitzy award campaign events scrapped and ceremonies postponed by Covid-19 restrictions.

Tinseltown’s traditional studios held back the release of several big hitters last year in the hope of theaters reopening, so streamers including Netflix, Amazon Pri…

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