In hopes that The Help wins big tonight...
For the record, this is all based on what I’ve seen, as geographic
dilemmas (i.e. not living in a major market) often keeps me from viewing many
of the bigger awards contenders. These are what I think should win, not what
I think will win.
To clarify, I’ll denote which nominees I haven’t seen; a
category with no citations indicates that I’ve seen all of the nominees. In any
case, I
hope you have a great time watching the Golden Globes!
Best Motion Picture
Drama: The Help
Best Motion Picture
Musical/Comedy: Bridesmaids
(haven’t seen The Artist)
Best Director: Hugo/Martin Scorsese (haven’t seen The Artist/Michel Hazanavicius)
Best Screenplay: The Descendants/Nat Faxon, Alexander
Payne, and Jim Rash (haven’t seen The
Artist/Michel Hazanavicius)
Best Actor in a
Motion Picture Drama: The Descendants/George
Clooney (haven’t seen Shame/Michael
Fassbender)
Best Actress in a
Motion Picture Drama: The Help/Viola
Davis (only seen The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo/Rooney Mara and The Help/Viola
Davis)
Best Actor in a
Motion Picture Musical/Comedy: 50/50/Joseph
Gordon-Levitt (haven’t seen The Artist/Jean
Dujardin or The Guard/Brendan Gleeson)
Best Actress in a
Motion Picture Musical/Comedy: Bridesmaids/Kristen
Wiig (haven’t seen Carnage ladies
Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet)
Best Supporting Actor
in a Motion Picture: Beginners/Christopher
Plummer (haven’t seen A Dangerous Method/Viggo
Mortensen or Drive/Albert Brooks)
Best Supporting
Actress in a Motion Picture: The Help/Octavia
Spencer (haven’t seen Albert Nobbs/Janet
McTeer or The Artist/Bérénice Bejo)
Best Original Score:
Hugo/Howard Shore (haven’t seen The Artist/Ludovic Bource or W.E./Abel Korzeniowski)
Best Original Song:
The Help/“The Living Proof”
Best Animated Feature
Film: Rango (haven’t seen Arthur Christmas)
No preference for Foreign Language Film since I haven’t seen
any of them.
This is the point where I’d delve into who I’d omit from
each race, but I sadly haven’t seen enough of the nominees. Then again, this
means that my commentary on who should win is null and void as well…
But enough about me: who do you want to win big
tonight?
I was a little disappointed in Viola losing Actress. I'd be happy for Meryl if she won the Oscar, something she'd been robbed of so many times, but Viola and Michelle have been two people I've been saying deserved Oscars for a while now. The best possible thing would be a three way tie, imo. Obviously that won't happen, but it would be awesome. This is probably the most likely year for it anyway, since all three seem to be pretty close. Maybe a two way tie? Still highly unlikely, but it's happened before.
ReplyDeleteI was disappointed by Viola's loss as well. I still think she's getting the Oscar, though I'm not 100% sure about it... SAG will likely be our big indicator. At the moment, I think Streep is right behind Davis, closely followed by Williams.
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