BEVERLY HILLS, United States — The Golden Globes got under way in Beverly Hills on Sunday, with surreal narco-musical “Emilia Perez” among a crowded field of movies vying to win big at the year’s first major showbiz awards gala.Hollywood’s best and brightest, from Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman to Timothee Chalamet and Daniel Craig, hit the red carpet under sunny skies, before comedian Nikki Glaser kicked off the ceremony with an irreverent monologue.”Welcome to the 82nd Golden Globes, Ozempic’s biggest night,” she quipped, referring to the weight-loss drug that has proven wildly popular in famously looks-conscious Hollywood.”Emilia Perez,” French director Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying film about a Mexican drug lord who transitions to life as a woman, held the most nominations going into the show with 10 — the most ever for a comedy or musical.It picked up an early win for Zoe Saldana as best supporting actress, nudging out her co-star Selena Gomez, while Karla Sofia Gascon is in the running for best actress as the film’s title character.Big wins at the Globes, a sometimes eccentric bellwether for the Academy Awards, could help the movie build vital momentum toward the Oscars in early March.But it faces competition from a plethora of rivals, in a year with no clear favorites and no lack of strong contenders, each jostling for awards voters’ attention.”Emilia Perez” is up against smash Broadway adaptation “Wicked,” Cannes darling “Anora,” tennis love-triangle film “Challengers,” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” and body horror film “The Substance” starring Demi Moore, for best comedy or musical.The Golden Globes offer separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals, widening the field of movie stars in contention — and thus highlighting more performances for Academy voters, who will soon cast ballots for the Oscar nominations.In the Globes’ drama section “The Brutalist,” starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States, leads with seven nominations, followed by papal drama “Conclave” with six nods.Beyond the two favorites, others vying for the best drama prize include Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” sci-fi epic “Dune: Part Two,” 1960s reform school tale “Nickel Boys” and 1972 Munich Olympics thriller “September 5.”

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