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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Comments

  • Furious D says:

    I predict that at the first commercial break Ricky Gervais will be replaced by Jay Leno.

  • JM says:

    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?

  • Luke says:

    Avatar isn't going to win any awards except for technical ones. UP in the Air will win best picture Drama.

  • stolidog says:

    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.

  • JM says:

    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...

  • Mav says:

    "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.