Oscar Predictions - On the Eve of the Golden Globes nominations.

          Wow, this year went quickly didn't it? Tomorrow brings us the nominations for the Golden Globes. The Golden Globes of course are picked by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and act as a huge precursor for the Academy Awards.

Since the race will be a little clearer after tomorrow I thought I'd take a quick jab at the acting Oscars since the Screen Actors Guild will be announcing their picks later in the week as well.

Predictions for the acting categories at the 2020 Academy Awards:

Best Actor:
Antonio Banderas, Pain & Glory
Robert De Niro, The Irishman
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

Best Actress:
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong'o, Us
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renee Zellweger, Judy

Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood
John Lithgow, Bombshell

Best Supporting Actress:
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

2018 Golden Globe Predictions

The Golden Globes have arrived, and with that the beginning of the televised awards for film. The Golden Globes are decided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, so they always like to throw a few curve-balls while doing their best to predict the Oscars.

Usually by now we have a few locks, for example a Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine or Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. This year we don't have that. Gary Oldman is probably the closest thing to a lock, but Timmy Chalamet might win the Globe because of passionate fans and Oldman's past remarks about the HFPA.

Tonight's awards kind of feel like closing your eyes and throwing a dart and seeing where it lands. Best Actress in a Drama seems like a real cutthroat race with Sally Hawkins fighting it out with Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep.

These are my current predictions with an alternate in parenthesis:

Best Motion Picture - Drama: The Shape of Water (Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: Lady Bird (Get Out)
Best Actor - Drama - Timmy Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name (Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour)
Best Actress - Drama - Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water (Frances McDormand, Three Billboards)
Best Actor - Comedy or Musical - Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out (James Franco, The Darkest Hour)
Best Actress - Comedy or Musical - Margot Robbie, I, Tonya (Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird)
Best Supporting Actor- Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World (Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project)
Best Supporting Actress - Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird (Allison Janney, I, Tonya)
Best Director - Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water (Steven Spielberg, The Post)
Best Screenplay - Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards)
Best Animated Film - Coco (Loving Vincent)
Best Foreign Language Film - First They Killed My Father (The Square)
Best Original Score - Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water (Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk)
Best Original Song - Mighty River, Mudbound (This is Me, The Greatest Showman)