Golden Globe Predictions and Wishes

Happy Golden Globes day! I will love this year's edition no matter what because it gave us the headline "Carol Leads Golden Globes Nominations". As it should be.


Cate has three but I'm hoping for a fourth

My biggest wish - apart from couture, couture, couture - is that we get a lot of surprises. Hey Globes just embrace your inner star fuckery and vote for Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence and throw this awards season unto more disarray.

Here are my predictions and wishes.

Best Motion Picture Drama
Winner: Spotlight
Alternate: Mad Max: Fury Road
My Wish: Carol

Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Winner: The Big Short
Alternate: The Martian
My Wish : Spy.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Alternate: Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
My Wish : None

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Winner: Matt Damon, The Martian
Alternate: Christian Bale, The Big Short
My Wish : I guess Damon... I don't really care.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Winner: Brie Larson, Room
Alternate: Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
My Wish : A tie between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara for Carol

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Winner: Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
Alternate: Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
My Wish : Lily Tomlin, Grandma

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Winner: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Alternate: Sylvester Stallone, Creed
My Wish : Paul Dano, Love and Mercy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Winner: Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Alternate: Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
My Wish : Winslet or Jane Fonda (Youth). I want surprises, dammit!

Best Director
Winner: Ridley Scott, The Martian
Alternate: George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
My Wish : Todd Haynes, Carol. Duh!

Best Screenplay
Winner: Spotlight
Alternate: The Big Short
My Wish : Carol is not nominated so whatever. Just not Quentin Tarantino, please.

Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: Inside Out
Alternate: Anomalisa
My Wish : Inside Out ie. the only nominated film I saw.

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Son of Saul
Alternate: Mustang
My Wish : Mustang.

Best Original Score
Winner: Carol
Alternate: The Hateful Eight
My Wish : Carol

Best Original Song
Winner: One Kind of Love, Love and Mercy
Alternate: Writing's On the Wall, Spectre
My Wish : Any really as long as it's not the dreadful Spectre theme. How did that get nominated?

Golden Globes Predictions

We are bound to see a repeat of the above image. I'm sure. Here are my predictions :


Best Motion Picture (Drama)
Winner: Boyhood
Alternate: The Imitation Game

Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Winner: Birdman
Alternate: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Winner: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Alternate: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Winner: Michael Keaton, Birdman
Alternate: Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Winner: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Alternate: Jennifer Aniston, Cake

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Winner: Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
Alternate: Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Winner: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Alternate: Edward Norton, Birdman

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Winner: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Alternate: Emma Stone, Birdman

Best Director 
Winner: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Alternate: Alejando Innaritu, Birdman

Best Screenplay 
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alternate: Birdman

Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: The Lego Movie
Alternate: How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Ida
Alternate: Force Majeure

Best Original Score
Winner: The Imitation Game
Alternate: The Theory of Everything

Best Original Song
Winner: Glory, Selma
Alternate: Mercy Is, Noah

Golden Globes Moments I'm Hoping For

Cate Blancett and Chiwetel Ejiofor on GG Weekend

It's futile to predict the Golden Globes. The fun is in their left field choices : Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version or Colin Farrell in In Brugues. Instead here's what I'm hoping to see:

- Cate Blanchett and Chiwetel Ejiofor win for Drama Actress and Actor. These are my very two favorites this year and I can't believe they are actually front runners.

- Another favorite Oscar Isaac. His chances are slim but the Comedy actor category almost always delivers surprises.

- a train wreck moment a la Jodie Foster from last year. That's why we tune in.

- Crazy crazy couture from the ladies. And at least one man to mix it up with a dash of color away from navy blue and black.

- Rob Lowe to win and to deliver his speech looking exactly like this :

Hoping for a fun night!