Last minute Golden Globe predictions

I'm a sucker for awards season, though the prediction game is always really tough for me. Most of the time, I haven't even seen any of the movies that will win nominations yet - it's the same this year. This is in part due to some of the movies not coming to the theatre before the Oscars are over here in Germany, and in part due to me not going to the movie theatre nearly as often as I would like to. I most regret not seeing "Gone Girl", because it really sounds like a great suspenseful movie that I could totally love from what I've heard. Therefore I will include a picture of this film, just to make the post more colorful.

Another reason is that I don't experience any of the buzz, campaigning etc. first hand, like people living in the US seem to do. So all I can rely on is what I read on websites dedicated to the subjects. Still, normally I kind of get drawn in early on, but this year I resisted to get involved the least bit, and just read the guesses on my favorite blog from time to time.

But now, with the Golden Globe nominations only a few hours away, I can't resist anymore.

The Golden Globes are extremely tricky, with the Comedy/Musical categories, because some of the movies that will land here eventually are not in the awards conversation at all before. With the limited exposure to the conversation and to some of the movies, there is also a danger that I put the movies or actors in the wrong category in my guesses. But they are also extreme fun, because sometimes the Globes nominate people that the Oscars would never nominate.

So enough babbling already, here are my rather uneducated last minute guesses:



Note: The people marked with * in the Director, Drama and Supporting categories are the ones I predict will not be Oscar nominated, but a Golden Globe specialty. (It makes no sense to highlight these in the Comedy/Musical categories, obviously.)

Picture Comedy/Musical
Begin Again
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
St. Vincent

Picture Drama
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Interstellar
Selma
Theory of Everything

Director
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Alejandro González Iñarritu - Birdman
Angelina Jolie - Unbroken*
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar*

Actress Comedy/Musical
(note: with this category it was difficult for me to even find enough contenders, actually)
Emily Blunt - Into the Woods
Angelina Jolie - Maleficent
Keira Knightley - Begin Again
Melissa McCarthy - St. Vincent
Jenny Slate - Obvious Child

Actress Drama
Jennifer Aniston - Cake*
Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamunde Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Actor Comedy/Musical
Ralph Fiennes - Grand Budapest Hotel
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Bill Murray - St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice
Mark Ruffalo - Begin Again

Actor Drama
Steve Carell - Foxcatcher*
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler*
David Oyelowo - Selma
Eddie Redmayne - Theory of Everything

Supporting Actor
Charlie Cox - Theory of Everything*
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash
Christoph Waltz - Big Eyes*

Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Rene Russo - Nightcrawler*
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into the Woods

 

I'm looking forward to reading the actual nominations, and count how few I got right. ;-)