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My Predictions For The 2025 Golden Globes

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Has it been five years since I last did a prediction blog of the Golden Globes? I don’t know what it was. Lack of drive? Controversy it endured at the time? Too soon in the year to publish? Whatever the situation, I got the drive back in making a prediction blog this year!

The 83rd Golden Globes are happening this Sunday at the Beverly Hilton. Nikki Glaser did such a good job of hosting last year, they brought her back this year. Understandably so as she really brought back the enjoyment after Jo Koy made a big mess of things the year before. Fifteen categories are up for grabs for film and twelve are up for television. The recent addition of the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award two years ago really makes for something different in the film awards categories. Especially since it’s not an Oscar category.

So without further ado, here are my predictions for this year’s Golden Globe Awards:

FILM:

Best Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Sinners
Most Likely Upsetter: Hamnet

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: One Battle After Another
Most Likely Upsetter: Marty Supreme

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Most Likely Upsetter: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Most Likely Upsetter: Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Winner: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Most Likely Upsetter: Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Winner: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You
Most Likely Upsetter: Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Winner: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Most Likely Upsetter: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Winner: Amy Madigan, Weapons
Most Likely Upsetter: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best Director
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Most Likely Upsetter: Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Most Likely Upsetter: Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
Winner: The Secret Agent (Brazil)
Most Likely Upsetter: It was Just An Accident (France)

Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: KPop Demon Hunters
Most Likely Upsetter: Zootopia 2

Best Original Song, Motion Picture
Winner: “Golden”, KPop Demon Hunters
Most Likely Upsetter: “I Lied To You”, Sinners

Best Original Score, Motion Picture
Winner: Ludwig Goransson, Sinners
Most Likely Upsetter: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another

Cinematic And Box Office Achievement
Winner: Sinners
Most Likely Upsetter: Wicked: For Good

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: Adolescence

Best TV Series, Drama: The Pitt

Best TV Series, Comedy: The Studio

Best Performance In Stand-Up Comedy In Television: Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama: Noah Wyle, The Pitt

Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy: Seth Rogen, The Studio

Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Britt Lower, Severance

Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy: Jean Smart, Hacks

Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Rashida Jones, Black Mirror

Best Supporting Actor on Television: Owen Cooper, Adolescence

Best Supporting Actress on Television: Hannah Einbinder, Hacks

And there you have it. Those are my predictions for the 83rd Golden Globe Awards. Sunday night should make for an entertaining start to the film awards season.

My Predictions for the 2020 Golden Globes

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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!