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Golden Globes Predictions

gglogoThe Golden Globes may not mean so much these days (just look at those puzzling nominations for Best Picture – Musical/Comedy), however I still thought would be fair to give my predictions anyway.

Best Picture – Drama
Nominees:

The Fighter

The King's Speech

Prediction: The King's Speech
Alternate: The Social Network
Reason: I would call The King's Speech to be a shoe-in, however a lot of last-second accolades for The Social Network has raised its a bit.

Best Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

Prediction: The Kids Are All Right

Reason: This is the most puzzling Golden Globes category and personally I think that The Kids Are Alright is the only film on this list that truly deserves the award (even though I have yet to see it).

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
for The Social Network
for The King's Speech
James Franco for 127 Hours
for
for The Fighter

Prediction: Colin Firth
Alternate: Ryan Gosling
Reason: Colin Firth is DEFINITELY a shoe-in to win here, though I was impressed by Gosling's performance in Blue Valentine.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Halle Berry for Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Prediction: Natalie Portman

Alternate: Nicole Kidman

Reason: I'm fairly sure that Portman will win here.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy
Nominees:
Johnny Depp for The Tourist
Johnny Depp for Alice in Wonderland
for Barney's Version
Jake Gyllenhaal for Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey for Casino Jack

Prediction: Paul Giamatti
Alternate: Kevin Spacey
Reason: Based on what I heard, the only true contenders for this award is Giamatti and Spacey.  I'll go with the former.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
for The Kids Are All Right
for Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie for The Tourist
for The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone for Easy A

Prediction: Julianne Moore
Alternate: Annette Bening
Reason: This is a hard one to pick, since I haven't seen any of these films.  I'll just go with either one of the two nominations for The Kids Are All Right.

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees:
Christian Bale for The Fighter
Michael Douglas for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
for The Social Network
Jeremy Renner for The Town
Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech

Prediction: Christian Bale
Alternate: Geoffrey Rush
Reason: Both Bale and Rush were , but I'll have to go with the former and his extreme method acting.

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees:
Amy Adams for The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech
Mila Kunis for Black Swan
Melissa Leo for The Fighter
for Animal Kingdom

Prediction: Melissa Leo
Alternate: Helena Bonham Carter
Reason: This is a hard one to pick, since they were all good.  I'll go with Melissa Leo.

Best Director – Motion Picture
Nominees:
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David Fincher for The Social Network
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception
David O. Russell for The Fighter

Prediction: Tom Hooper
Alternate: David Fincher
Reason: See Best Picture – Drama

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Nominees:
127 Hours: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
Inception: Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right: Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko
The King's Speech: David Seidler
The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin

Prediction: The Social Network
Alternate: The King's Speech
Reasion: I'm going to actually flip my predictions here from my Best Picture picks.

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Nominees:
127 Hours: A.R. Rahman
Alice in Wonderland: Danny Elfman
Inception: Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech: Alexandre Desplat
The Social Network: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Prediction: The Social Network
Alternate: Inception
Reason: Reznor all the way!

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Nominees:
“Bound to You” — Burlesque
“Coming Home” — Country Strong
“I See the Light” — Tangled
“There's a Place for Us” — Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“You Haven't Seen the Last of Me” — Burlesque

Prediction: Tangled
Reason: I heard good stuff about that song.

Best Animated Feature Film
Nominees:

How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3

Prediction: Toy Story 3
Alternate: How to Train Your Dragon
Reason: You can't beat Pixar (though I've heard good things about “How to Train Your Dragon”)

Best Foreign Language Film
Nominees:
(Mexico/Spain)
The Concert (France)
The Edge (Russia)
I Am Love (Italy)
In a Better World (Denmark)

Prediction: Biutiful
Alternate: The Concert
Reason: I've hear that Biutiful is one of the best films of the year, let alone foreign film.

And those are the predictions.

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