Overview
- Focus Features quietly submitted Curry Barker’s hit film Obsession for consideration in the Golden Globes' Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category, a move first reported October 1.
- The submission is part of a wide-ranging awards campaign that seeks recognition across nearly every category the film is eligible to enter, including separate pushes aimed at Academy voters.
- The decision has prompted public backlash and online bafflement because Obsession is broadly seen as a horror film with dark humor rather than a straight comedy.
- Industry observers say the studio is following recent precedents of genre-blurring films that ran in the Globes' musical/comedy slot to improve nomination odds for lead Inde Navarrette and the film itself.
- Submission does not guarantee nominations; Golden Globe nominees will be announced December 7, 2026, and the studio’s campaign faces other pressures such as an earlier net-profit lawsuit involving the film’s producers.