Saturday, January 10, 2009

Golden Globe Predictions 2008, or How it's hard to predict foreigners' tastes

I'm betting on all the 'foreign flavor' of Slumdog to triumph over the Fincher epic (which I just saw last night and couldn't stomach!) and on the TV side I'm betting on some Hamm-Fey love.

** Predicted Winner
^^ Secretly Rooting For
Actual Winners (I got 15/22)

Best Picture, Drama:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
^^Revolutionary Road
** Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture, Comedy:
Burn After Reading
^^Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Mamma Mia!
**Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Director: 
**Danny Boyle, 
Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, 
The Reader
David Fincher, 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, 
Frost/Nixon
^^Sam Mendes, 
Revolutionary Road

Best Actor in a Drama:
^^Leonardo DiCaprio, 
Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella, 
Frost/Nixon
**Sean Penn, 
Milk
Brad Pitt, 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, 
The Wrestler

Best Actress, Drama:
**Anne Hathaway, 
Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, 
Changeling
Meryl Streep, 
Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas, 
I've Loved You So Long
^^Kate Winslet, 
Revolutionary Road

Best Actress, Comedy:
^^Rebecca Hall, 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
**Sally Hawkins, 
Happy-Go-Lucky
Frances McDormand, 
Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep, 
Mamma Mia!
Emma Thompson, 
Last Chance Harvey

Best Actor, Comedy:
Javier Bardem, 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
^^Colin Farrell, 
In Bruges
James Franco, 
Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson, 
In Bruges
**Dustin Hoffman, 
Last Chance Harvey

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, 
Doubt
^^**Penélope Cruz, 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, 
Doubt
Marisa Tomei, 
The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, 
The Reader

Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Cruise, 
Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr., 
Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes, 
The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 
Doubt
^^**Heath Ledger, 
The Dark Knight

Best Screenplay:
**Simon Beaufoy, 
Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare, 
The Reader
Peter Morgan, 
Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth, 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, 
Doubt

Best Foreign-Language Film:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
**Gomorrah (Italy)
^^I've Loved You So Long (France)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best Animated Film:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
^^**Wall-E

Best Original Song:
^^"Down to Earth," 
Wall-E
"Gran Torino," 
Gran Torino
"I Thought I Lost You," 
Bolt
"Once in a Lifetime," 
Cadillac Records
**"The Wrestler," 
The Wrestler

TV Series, Drama:
Dexter
House
In Treatment
^^**Mad Men
True Blood

TV Series, Comedy:
^^**30 Rock
Californication
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

Best Actress, TV Drama:
Sally Field, 
Brothers and Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, 
Law and Order: SVU
^^**January Jones, 
Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, 
The Closer
Anna Paquin, 
True Blood

Best Actor, TV Drama:
Gabriel Byrne, 
In Treatment
Michael C. Hall, 
Dexter
^^**Jon Hamm, 
Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, 
House
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 
The Tudors

Best Actress, TV Comedy:
Christina Applegate, 
Samantha Who?
America Ferrera, 
Ugly Betty
^^**Tina Fey, 
30 Rock
Debra Messing, 
The Starter Wife
Mary-Louise Parker, 
Weeds

Best Actor, TV Comedy:
^^**Alec Baldwin, 
30 Rock
Steve Carell, 
The Office
Kevin Connelly, 
Entourage
David Duchovny, 
Californication
Tony Shalhoub, 
Monk

Best Supporting Actress, TV:
Eileen Atkins, 
Cranford
^^**Laura Dern, 
Recount
Melissa George, 
In Treatment
Rachel Griffiths, 
Brothers and Sisters
Diane Wiest, 
In Treatment

Best Supporting Actor, TV:
^^Neil Patrick Harris, 
How I Met Your Mother
Denis Leary, 
Recount
Jeremy Piven, 
Entourage
Blair Underwood, 
In Treatment
**Tom Wilkinson, 
John Adams

Best TV Mini-Series:
A Raisin in the Sun
Bernard and Doris
Cranford
**John Adams
^^Recount

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