Golden Globes Prediction Thread

[Bing147]

Who do you think will win in each category? I'm only going to do movies because I'm not too up to date on the tv shows.

Best Picture-Drama
Brokeback Mountain
Underdog: Good Night and Good Luck

Best Picture-Musical or Comedy
Walk the Line
Underdog: Pride & Prejudice I guess

Best Actor-Drama
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Underdog: Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)

Best Actress-Drama
Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
Underdog: Maria Bello (A History of Violence)

Best Actor-Musical or Comedy
Joaquin Pheonix (Walk the Line)
Underdog: Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale, he should win IMO)

Best Actress-Musical or Comedy
Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Underdog: Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice)

Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney (Syriana)
Underdog: Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man)

Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
Underdog: Scarlett Johansson (Match Point) or Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)

Foreign Language Film
Paradise Now
Underdog: Tsotsi

Best Director
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
Underdog: George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck)

Best Screenplay
Good Night and Good Luck
Underdog: Crash

Best Original Song
Wunderkind (Alanis Morisette-The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Underdog: A Love That Will Never Grow Old (Brokeback Mountain)

Best Original Score:
John Williams (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Underdog: James Newton Howard (King Kong)

[Viper]

I never get my predictions right because too many times a movie that should really get it doesn't and some movie that no one under 50 has heard of get's it.

I agree that Brokeback Mountain will garner the most.

[Bing147]

I'm usually pretty good at these. We'll see this year. The trick is to totally put your favorites out of your mind and just go on what has the hype, what's won at other awards, what the critics have liked, and to have a bit of intuition.

[valiek]

I am very bad at predicting these type of things, but i am hoping for these awards to happen.

Best muscial: Walk the Line
Best actor: Joaquin Pheonix (Walk the Line)
Best actress: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Best Picture: Walk the Line


As you can tell i loved that movie and am a fan of Cash.

[Pro A.]

I agree with all except Director. I think, out of respect for Spielberg, they'll give him Best Director and Lee's movie will win Picture.

[Miyahon]

Walk the Line vs. March of the Penguins for documentary
Corpse Bride vs. Willy Wonka for Fantasy (Depp needs an award in both)
Brokeback Mountain vs. Memoirs of a Geisha for most gratuitis buttsex in a movie.

As long as Jessica Simpson, Johnny Knoxville and the cast of Dukes of Hazzard walk away with Razzies I'm happy.

[Bing147]

You're an idiot.

Walk the Line isn't a documentary, it's a HIGHLY fictionalized account of his life. And if you want great documentaries, watch Grizzly Man and Murderball. Penguins will win because of it having the hype but it isn't THAT great, it's good but no GM or MB.

There is no 'fantasy' category and neither of those movies would be nominated regardless. Corpse Bride sucked and Charlie was good but not amazing. Depp was good but won't win awards for either.

And with the last one of those you showed yourself as a bigot. And despite that, there isn't any butt sex in Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Miyahon]

Dude you take things WAY to seriously. Hell if they consider Amadeaus a Documentary they can consider Batman Begins a documentary. It's a broad term no one expects accuracey anymore. I enoyed the two depp movies and the last one was a JOKE!

GAY PEOPLE HAVE BUTT SEX! SO DO HOOKERS!

Oh and I take it no argument that Dukes of Hazzard was the worse piece of crap all year? (honourable mention to bewitched)

[Bing147]

Dukes of Hazzard was bad but the worst of the year? I dunno... Son of the Mask, Alone in the Dark, Guess Who, Elektra, Fantastic Four, Deuce Bigalow, Stealth, Miss Congeniality 2, Dirty Love, Man of the House, D.E.B.S., Monster In Law. There were lots just as bad.

And I liked Bewitched actually, better than any of those above.

[cheeseboy38!]

Wedding Crashers for all the awards. Quote me on that.

[Harmony]

That was a pretty funny movie^

[Bing147]

I got everything but Screenplay and Original Song!

And for song, my underdog won. The only reason I didn't predict Brokeback for screenplay is that no film since American Beauty had swept Screenplay/Director/Picture at the globes.

[Pro A.]

Note the little political statement that the Hollywood Foreign Press pulled here:

Picture/Dir/Screenplay (Drama): Brokeback Mountain (homosexuality w/ cowboys)
Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (Capote: Homosexual)
Actress: Felicity Huffman, TransAmerica (transsexualism)

Not saying that they weren't deserving, they certainly were, but I love the little messages that they send year after year.

-In 2001, they went for the African-American angle (Halle Berry and Denzel Washington locking up Actor, Actress, Poitier getting the lifetime achievement).

-Million Dollar Baby: the right to die issue (even though that isn't the central theme).

-Pianist in 2002: WWII. Schindler in 1993: Same thing (and apologizing to Spielberg for screwing him out of the Best Director oscar for twenty years)

-Dances with Wolves: Native Americans (yet another time when Scorsese gets screwed with Goodfellas)

Something to keep in mind.