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

Golden Globe Predictions, or How I'm just offering general ones here

No time for full blown GG predix; I mean honestly there are WAY too many categories to cover. And while I think there are 'rules' to go by when predicting this crazy group (A-list Star in semi-baity role OR in relatively buzzed project = nom: see Amy Adams get in this way; Worldly subject matter with pedigree = nom: watch this help Slumdog Millionaire) I just don't have the time or the effort to get to it.

Instead, here's a wishlist (and yes, I am also throwing in TV stuff... so many people forget the HFPA also does TV!):

Kate Winslet double dips for Revolutionary Road and The Reader getting some love and some necessary traction if Camp Winslet wants to nab that Naked Golden Man this year.

Jane Krakowski gets some love for her portayal of kooky, self-obsessed Jenna on 30 Rock (Tina, Alec and the series are pretty much staples by now)

Pushing Daisies grabs noms for Comedy Series, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, & Supporting Actress, proving once again that ABC doesn't know quality when it is being baked right in front of its Dancing with the According to Practice's face.

How I Met Your Mother cracks the Comedy lineup and is joined by NPH in the Supporting Actor category.

Brad and Angie get snubbed (Nothing against them but I'd like to see more diversity and less star wattage on the red carpet this year)

Mad Men ladies get to shine with nominations for January Jones, Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks (the Johns - Hamm and Slatery - and the hot hot Series also get some love, of course)

The Dark Knight shows up in the Best Drama Picture.

Unsung (camp/gay icon) performers Michael Urie and Becki Newton get noms for their Mode Magazine duo.

Clint gets snubbed (sorry, but the Clint love is too much sometimes).

Charlie Sheen and his CBS sitcom pals get the shaft.

The Zeffron gets a nom for HSM3 to the public outcry of the older media elite.

Ms Fey double dips for Baby Mama and 30 Rock ending 2008 with a bang.

Sex and the City: The Movie nabs at least 2 nods (Best Comedy and Best Lead Comedy Actress for SJP) showing how much HFPA really adores the Parker vehicle.

We'll see if my foreignness and my inner will manage to make any of these come true.

Golden Globes, or How Nominations are out!

Okay, okay, a bit late but I was stuck traveling all day (when will I ever be able to fly without having to have flights delayed, problems in immigration and/or horrible people sitting beside me?!)

Check the full list of noms here.

Nomination that shocked me the most: Californication for Best Comedy Series?!

Nomination(s) or lack thereof that kept me thinking there must have been a mistake: Desperate Housewives nowhere to be found?

Nominations that make me giddy: 30 Rock and Pushing Daisies getting 3 nods in Best Comedy, and Best Lead Actor and Actress.

Snubs that I am still mourning: Once (in ANY category!) and Jen Garner for Best Supporting Actress

Nominations that prove Oprah owns the world: The Great Debaters

Category that could just as easily been 'hottest men on TV': Lead Actor in a Drama Series (TV)

Nomination that represents us Latinos: Shakira for Best Original Song.

And seriously - can the HFPA not narrow down their choices? What was up with 6/7 nominated actors/movies in one category? Crazy.