As yet another incredible season begins to gradually wind down, we're roughly 48 hours away from one of the year's most closely watched, hotly competitive high-stakes all-star showdowns to date. But enough about the New York Giants' journey on Sunday to battle their NFC-rival Green Bay Packers. We've got the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards to predict!
While Jen Yamato and I invite you to join us Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT for Movieline's Golden Globe livetweet extravaganza, now's the time to apply everything you've divined through the Oscar Index, our 2012 Golden Globe subplots, your bum knee and/or any other reliable awards barometers you might have at your disposal.
We're focusing on the movie categories only at this time (*: carefully calibrated predictions from Movieline's Institute For the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics); weigh in with yours in the comments. And we'll see you back here on Sunday!
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
The Descendants
The Help*
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
BEST MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids*
My Week With Marilyn
Midnight in Paris
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help*
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
George Clooney, The Descendants*
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jodie Foster, Carnage
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids*
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Kate Winslet, Carnage
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
Ryan Gosling, Crazy Stupid Love*
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss In Boots
Rango*
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation (Iran)
The Flowers Of War (China)
The Kid With The Bike (Belgium)
In The Land Of Blood and Honey (USA)*
The Skin I Live In (Spain)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help*
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners*
BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris*
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants
The Ides of March
Midnight in Paris*
Moneyball
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
Ludovic Bource - The Artist*
Abel Korzeniowski - W.E.
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Howard Shore - Hugo
John Williams - War Horse
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
"Hello Hello" - Gnomeo & Juliet - Elton John
"Lay Your Head Down" - Albert Nobbs - Sinead O'Connor
"The Living Proof" - The Help - Mary J. Blige
"The Keeper" - Machine Gun Preacher - Gerard Butler
"Masterpiece" - W.E. - Madonna*