Movieline's 2010 Golden Globe Predictions
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo'Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz, Nine
FRONT-RUNNER: Mo'nique will continue to steamroll her way to the Oscar.
DARK HORSE: Anna Kendrick should just be happy to be mentioned as a dark horse. Mo' is unassailable.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, Invictus
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
FRONT-RUNNER: Christoph Waltz is almost as formidable as Mo'nique, but...
DARK HORSE: ...if there's a shock win, it could happen here, and it could be because of Woody Harrelson and the awards sleeper The Messenger.
Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up
FRONT-RUNNER: Up has this category locked down.
DARK HORSE: The Fantastic Mr. Fox provides a hip -- if unlikely -- alternative.
Best Foreign Language Film
Barria
Broken Embraces
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
The Maid
FRONT-RUNNER: Broken Embraces has star power, but The White Ribbon seems to be making the most awards traction.
DARK HORSE: Jacques Audiard's terrific A Prophet has raked in awards overseas and should not be counted out.
Best Screenplay
Up in the Air
It's Complicated
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
FRONT-RUNNER: There's no better place for the Globes to ensure a win by Quentin Tarantino than here. For the speech alone, it'll happen.
DARK HORSE: Up in the Air's awards cachet has faded a bit, but Jason Reitman could still find himself in contention.
Best Original Song
"I See You," Avatar
"The Weary Kind," Crazy Heart
"Winter," Brothers
"Cinema Italiano," Nine
"I Want to Come Home," Everybody's Fine
FRONT-RUNNER: "The Weary Kind" is the best-integrated song on the list. Will enough voters have seen Crazy Heart, though?
DARK HORSE: If not, Leona Lewis's maudlin "I See You" could take the prize just by riding Avatar's coattails. As long as it isn't the torturously tongue-twisting "Cinema Italiano," I think I'll survive.
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I predict that at the first commercial break Ricky Gervais will be replaced by Jay Leno.
Wow, this post reminds me what a lackluster year it's really been.
Disagreements:
-Hurt Locker for Drama or Precious (this year's Crash/Slumdog?)
-(500) Days of Summer instead of Nine - one has gotten critical praise from all corners the other has been trashed. Take a guess which? Then again, f@#$ing Chicago won in '02 so who knows.
- Would like to see Mulligan win, she seemed quite nice on Ferguson's show the other night but I feel Ms. Sidibe might have a better chance. Having refused to see The Blind Side I can only guess at Sandy's performance but...well, it's Sandy. She's great and all but even she acknowledges being happy just to act a bit, make some money, and entertain people, and not stretching herself too far.
And how the hell did a Nancy Meyers movie get nominated for anything?
Avatar isn't going to win any awards except for technical ones. UP in the Air will win best picture Drama.
I'm going out on a limb and putting 500 days of summer and joseph gordon levitt for the win in their respective catagories...a fresh change from the usual.
Would love for Mr Gordon-Levitt to get a bit of well-deserved award recognition this year. Too bad he was in GI Joe which might be held against him...
"Avatar" deserves the Best Picture award over overrated films like "Up in the Air" I thought UITA was a real snoozer. Comedy/Musical should go to "500 Days of Summer" while "Nine" shouldn't be nominated, because it is NO "Chicago". I don't know, I thought "The Hurt Locker" was a good, tense film, but not the Best Picture that every critc is claiming it to be. "Inglorious Basterds" was a major surpirse, because it's the first film by QT that I actually liked.