My Predictions for the 2020 Golden Globes
The Golden Globes are happening unusually late in the year. Keep in mind 2020 was no ordinary year. It either cancelled everything out or held it up. What can I say? A pandemic can do that. The pandemic has caused a lot more films intended for big-screen release go to the small screen. Even those with huge big-screen releases intended had to have a limited big-screen release with it then relegated to streaming services. That in turn led to the Academy to be more forgiving towards online films this past year. This in turn will make all the other awards shows, including the Golden Globes, more forgiving to the films. Nevertheless the show must go on and February 28th it will!
The weird thing is I’ve only seen two of the films in contention for the Golden Globes. You gotta love quarantines and lockdowns. But you also gotta love streaming services too! Anyways here are my predictions:
FILM:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Nomadland
Most Likely Upsetter: Promising Young Woman
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Most Likely Upsetter: Hamilton
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Riz Ahmed, Sound Of Metal
Most Likely Upsetter: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Most Likely Upsetter: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Most Likely Upsetter: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Maria Balakova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Most Likely Upsetter: Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Winner: Leslie Odom Jr., One Night In Miami
Most Likely Upsetter: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial Of The Chicago Seven
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Winner: Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Most Likely Upsetter: Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Best Director
Winner: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Most Likely Upsetter: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Winner: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Most Likely Upsetter: Chloe Zhao and Jessica Bruder, Nomadland
Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: Another Round (Denmark)
Most Likely Upsetter: La Llorona (Guatemala)
Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: Soul
Most Likely Upsetter: Wolfwalkers
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
Winner: “Io Se (Seen)”, The Life Ahead
Most Likely Upsetter: “Speak Now”, One Night In Miami
Best Original Score, Motion Picture
Winner: Trent Reznor, Jon Batiste and Atticus Ross, Soul
Most Likely Upsetter: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Mank
Those who know me well enough know I will predict the winners for the television categories but not predict the most likely upsetters. So my predictions for the winners:
TELEVISION:
Best TV Movie or Miniseries: Small Axe
Best TV Series, Drama: The Mandalorian
Best TV Series, Comedy: Schitt’s Creek
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama: Jason Bateman, Ozark
Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy: Ramy Youssef, Ramy
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Olivia Colman, The Crown
Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy: Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True
Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie: John Boyega, Small Axe
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie: Julia Garner, Ozark
And there you have it. Those are my predictions for the 78th Golden Globe awards. Winners to be decided on Sunday evening. It would not only be interesting to see who wins, but how the show is conducted in these preventative circumstances. Anyways a pandemic won’t stop the fun. It may limit things, but it won’t stop the fun!
Golden Globes 2018: My Predictions
This year’s Golden Globes will be hosted by Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh. I’ll admit it’s awfully late for me to post my Golden Globe predictions, but I have been lacking the drive this holiday season. A late-minute alerting made me get myself into action. To start things off, here are my predictions for both the winners and their respective most likely upsetters in the film categories:
FILM:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: A Star Is Born
Most Likely Upsetter: BlacKkKlansman
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: The Favourite
Most Likely Upsetter: Green Book
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Most Likely Upsetter: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Christian Bale, Vice
Most Likely Upsetter: Viggo Mortenson, Green Book
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Most Likely Upsetter: Glenn Close, The Wife
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Most Likely Upsetter: Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Winner: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Most Likely Upsetter: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Winner: Amy Adams, Vice
Most Likely Upsetter: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Director
Winner: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Most Likely Upsetter: Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Winner: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Most Likely Upsetter: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly & Vanessa Taylor, Green Book
Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: Roma (Mexico)
Most Likely Upsetter: Shoplifters (Japan)
Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: SpiderMan: Into The Spiderverse
Most Likely Upsetter: The Incredibles 2
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
Winner: “Shallow”, A Star Is Born
Most Likely Upsetter: “All The Stars”, Black Panther
Best Original Score, Motion Picture
Winner: Marc Shaiman, Mary Poppins Returns
Most Likely Upsetter: Marco Beltrami, A Quiet Place
Those who know me well enough know I will predict the winners for the television categories but not predict the most likely upsetters. Especially since this year’s crop of nominees come mostly from new shows for this season. So my predictions for the winners:
TELEVISION:
Best TV Movie or Miniseries: American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Versace
Best TV Series, Drama: The Americans
Best TV Series, Comedy: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama: Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy: Bill Hader, Barry
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy: Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Darren Criss, American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Versace
Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Regina King, Seven Seconds
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie: Henry Winkler, Barry
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie: Thandie Newton, Westworld
And there you go. Those are my predictions for tonight’s Golden Globe awards. Winners to be revealed starting 8pm EST. That’s less than an hour!
Golden Globes Turn 75: And My Predictions

Ever since the Golden Globes were introduced in 1944, they’ve become one of the most prestigious awards on the entertainment circuit. Only the Oscar or the Emmy are more coveted.
Today will be the awarding of the Golden Globes. This year isn’t just any Golden Globes, but the 75th to take place.
A Very Brief History
Some of you may wonder how did the Golden Globes come to be? Firstly, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was founded in 1943 by Los Angeles-based journalists to give a more organized process of distributing cinema news to markets outside the U.S. The following year, they formed their own film awards, the Golden Globes, to give their opinions of who are the best of the year. While the AMPAS Academy consists primarily of professionals in their respective film field, the Golden Globes would be the decisions of these journalists.
The very first Golden Globes held back in 1944 consisted of six categories: Best Picture, Best Director and the four acting categories. Their decisions for the winners would be three for six with the Oscar winners. The Song Of Bernadette was chosen as the Best Picture winner while the Oscars went for Casablanca. Same thing with Best Director; Globes chose Bernadette director Henry King while the Academy favored Casablanca director Michael Curtiz. The acting categories almost completely matched each other as Globe-winners Paul Lukas, Jennifer Jones and Katina Paxinou would also win the Oscars later. Only Supporting Actor winner Akim Tamiroff from For Whom The Bell Tolls wouldn’t win an Oscar, despite being nominated.
Over the years, the Golden Globes would grow in popularity as their matches would be very close to that of the Oscars. They would also include cinematography categories temporarily and even a Best New Star category, which would be retired after the 1983 awards. The eighth Golden Globes would see the Awards giving separate awards for Best Picture and lead acting in both drama and comedy or musical. Something that still continues today. The Golden Globes would start to include awards to television starting in 1955: six years after the Emmy awards were created.
The Golden Globes would eventually become the second-most coveted film or television awards with only the Oscars or the Emmies being more coveted. It’s not to say it hasn’t been without its controversies, and not just because of hosting done by the likes of Rickyy Gervais et al. The make up of the Hollywood Foreign Press is often under question for their qualifications. Also their tendency to favor glitz and glamor at times have made people wonder at their choices. Even how in cases where one actress who did an interview for the HFP would later receive an award would get some people wondering. There was even suspicion at the 1981 Awards when Pia Zadora won Best New Star for her performance in Butterfly. Some claim that Meshulem Riklis, her millionaire husband at the time, paid the HFP to have her win. However nothing has been proven. Also it goes to show that there’s no such thing as an impartial judging body for any awards show. The Oscars and the Golden Globes are no exceptions to that. Nevertheless they still remain the most coveted.
And My Predictions For This Year
This year’s Golden Globes will be hosted by Seth Meyers. Some are saying he can be as controversial as Ricky Gervais tonight. This year’s Globes have fourteen categories for film and eleven categories for television. To start things off, here are my predictions for both the winners and their respective most likely upsetters in the film categories:
FILM:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Dunkirk
Most Likely Upsetter: Call Me By Your Name
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Lady Bird
Most Likely Upsetter: Get Out
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour
Most Likely Upsetter: Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Most Likely Upsetter: Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Most Likely Upsetter: Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Most Likely Upsetter: Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Winner: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Most Likely Upsetter: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Winner: Alison Janney, I, Tonya
Most Likely Upsetter: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Best Director
Winner: Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape Of Water
Most Likely Upsetter: Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Winner: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Most Likely Upsetter: Guillermo Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, The Shape Of Water
Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: The Square (Sweden)
Most Likely Upsetter: Loveless (Russia)
Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: Coco
Most Likely Upsetter: Loving Vincent
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
Winner: “Remember Me”, Coco
Most Likely Upsetter: “Mighty River”, Mudbound
Best Original Score, Motion Picture
Winner: Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Most Likely Upsetter: John Williams, The Post
Those who know me well enough know I will predict the winners for the television categories but not predict the most likely upsetters. So my predictions for the winners:
TELEVISION:
Best TV Movie or Miniseries: Big Little Lies
Best TV Series, Drama: The Handmaid’s Tale
Best TV Series, Comedy: Black-ish
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama: Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy: Aziz Ansari, Master Of None
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy: Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Robert De Niro, The Wizard Of Lies
Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie: Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie: Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
And there you go. Those are my predictions for tonight’s Golden Globe awards. Winners to be revealed starting 8pm EST.