GOLDEN GLOBE PREDICTIONS
Here are my predictions for tomorrow’s Golden Globes, in the major Movies and Television categories. Glaring omissions include Deadwood, Matthew Fox and Michael Emerson (Lost), and Matt Damon (who deserved to be nominated far more than Mark Wahlberg in The Departed).
MOVIES
BEST PICTURE – DRAMA
Babel
Bobby
The Departed (will win)
Little Children (should win)
The Queen
BEST PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Borat
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls (will win)
Little Miss Sunshine (should win)
Thank You For Smoking
BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Penélope Cruz – Volver
Judi Dench – Notes On A Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal – sherrybaby
Helen Mirren – The Queen (will win)
Kate Winslet – Little Children (should win)
BEST ACTRESS – COMEDY
Annette Bening – Running With Scissors (should win)
Toni Collette – Little Miss Sunshine
Beyoncé Knowles – Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada (will win)
Renée Zellweger – Miss Potter
BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed (should win)
Peter O’Toole – Venus
Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of
BEST ACTOR – COMEDY
Sacha Cohen – Borat (dark horse to steal category)
Johnny Depp – Pirates of The
Aaron Eckhart – Thank You for Smoking (should win)
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Kinky Boots
Will Ferrell – Stranger Than Fiction
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza –
Cate Blanchett – Notes On a Scandal
Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls (will win & should win)
Rinko Kikuchi –
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck – Hollywoodland (dark horse to steal category)
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls (should win)
Jack Nicholson – The Departed (will win)
Brad Pitt –
Mark Wahlberg – The Departed
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Cars (will win & should win)
Happy Feet
Monster House
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Apocalypto
Letters From
The Lives Of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver (should win)
BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood – Flags Of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood – Letters from
Stephen Frears – The Queen
Alejandro Iñárritu –
Martin Scorsese – The Departed (should win)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Babel
The Departed (will win)
Little Children (should win)
Notes On A Scandal
The Queen
TELEVISION
BEST TV SERIES – DRAMA
24
Big Love
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes (will win & deserves it)
Lost (should win)
BEST TV SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office (will win & should win)
Ugly Betty
Weeds
BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Patricia Arquette – Medium
Edie Falco – The Sopranos (will win & should win)
Evangeline Lilly – Lost
Ellen Pompeo – Grey’s Anatomy (seriously?! yikes)
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (dark horse to steal category)
BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Patrick Dempsey – Grey’s Anatomy
Michael C. Hall – Dexter (should win)
Hugh Laurie – House
Bill Paxton – Big Love
Kiefer Sutherland – 24 (will win)
BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Marcia Cross – Desperate Housewives
Felicity Huffman – Desperate Housewives
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – The New Adventures of Old Christine
Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds (should win)
BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (dark horse to steal category)
Zach Braff – Scrubs
Steve Carell – The Office (will win & should win)
Jason Lee – My Name Is Earl
Tony Shalhoub – Monk (no one watches; he shouldn’t keep winning)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – TV OR MINI SERIES
Emily Blunt – Gideon’s Daughter
Toni Collette – Tsunami
Katherine Heigl – Grey’s Anatomy (will win & should win for Denny’s death episode)
Sarah Paulson – Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Elizabeth Perkins – Weeds
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – TV OR MINI SERIES
Jeremy Irons – Elizabeth I
Justin Kirk – Weeds
Masi Oka – Heroes (will win & should win)
Jeremy Piven – Entourage