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| Rooting for Meryl at the Golden Globes Sunday night! (As should you.) |
Sunday marks the only award show of the season that allows
me to root for Meryl Streep. Streep deserves to win her ninth Golden Globe come
Sunday night for her great performance in Hope
Springs, but she probably won’t since she is competing against Oscar
nominee Jennifer Lawrence. Like many of the other nominees at this year’s
Golden Globes, Streep can probably just be content with enjoying an open bar to
celebrate that the campaigning is over.
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| Argo |
The timing of the Globes and the Oscar nominations could
actually make the night twice as entertaining. Final ballots for the Globes
were due on Wednesday, a day before the Oscar nominations, so there will be no
influence from the Oscars. There might not even be much influence for the
Oscars if the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press voted for somebody whom
the Academy snubbed. The season will be very interesting if Ben Affleck wins
Best Director at the Globes as he did Thursday night at the Critics’
Choice Movie Awards. I’ve been predicting Argo to win all season long, and my mind isn’t changed by Thursday’s
announcement. For the Golden Globes, at least. Oscar is clearly a different
story for Affleck, but Argo is a “Globes
movie” if I ever saw one: Argo is
high-quality entertainment, classical Hollywood cinema at its finest, and it’s
directed by a movie star. Let’s hope Affleck sent all the members a free watch.
Logic suggests that Lincoln
is the winner here with its whopping seven nominations. Steven Spielberg’s
acclaimed box-office behemoth could give Argo
a run for its money, and it’s certainly the front-runner for the Oscar now that
Affleck was snubbed, but I think that Lincoln
will have to settle with wins for Mr. President (aka acting king Daniel
Day-Lewis), Tommy Lee Jones (whose performance should be in the comedy
category), and screenwriter Tony Kushner (the one sure thing of the night). The
Globes have a history of sharing the wealth, so Lincoln could walk out with the largest haul, but maybe not with
the biggest prize.
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| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
The comedy categories, on the other hand, are a bit more
predictable. Jennifer Lawrence has Best Actress in the bag for Silver Linings Playbook. She and Best
Actress (Drama) winner Jessica Chastain will presumably go head-to-head on Oscar
night, although things could become very interesting if Naomi Watts wins for The Impossible. Best Actor and Best
Picture are a toss-up between Hugh Jackman and Bradley Cooper for Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook, respectively, with the Best Picture win
going to either film. The Globes tend to favour musicals, but I think that
Jackman will take one of Les Mis’s
two wins of the night (the other being Anne Hathaway) and that Silver Linings Playbook will dance its
way to the top prize. Does anyone want to make a case for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen? (Crickets.) Salmon Fishing is a cute little film to be sure, and it shows us
how loony and unpredictable the Globes can be. The Oscar race will become very interesting if Salmon Fishing wins!
★ Will win
If I picked the
winner
Best Picture – Drama
★ Argo
Best Picture – Comedy/Musical
Best Director
★ Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero
Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life
of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best Actor – Drama
★ Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
John Hawkes, The
Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The
Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Actress – Drama
★ Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust
and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Rachel Weisz, The
Deep Blue Sea
Best Actor – Comedy/Musical
Jack Black, Bernie
Ewan McGregor, Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park
on Hudson
Best Actress – Comedy/Musical
Emily Blunt, Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench, The
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
★ Jennifer Lawrence, Silver
Linings Playbook
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope
Springs
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The
Master
★ Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The
Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
★ Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The
Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The
Paperboy
Best Screenplay
Argo,
Chris Terrio
Django Unchained,
Quentin Tarantino
★Lincoln,
Tony Kushner
Silver
Linings Playbook, David O’Russell
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal
Best Score
Anna
Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo,
Alexandre Desplat
Cloud
Atlas, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
★Life
of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln,
John Williams
Best Song
“For
You” from Act of Valour
“Not
Running Anymore” from Stand Up Guys
“Suddenly”
from Les Misérables
Best Foreign Language Film
★ Amour –
Austria/France
The
Intouchables – France
Kon-tiki – Norway
A Royal Affair –
Denmark
Rust
and Bone – France
Best Animated Film
★ Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck it Ralph
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| Maggie Smith in 'Downton Abbey' |
Oh, and if you want to make the night extra fun, here are
the rules for the Golden
Globes drinking game as proposed by hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler:
-Any time an actress cries in a speech, drink.
-Any time you see a person actively not listening to someone
onstage, drink.
-Any time someone says, “I didn’t prepare anything!”
-Any time anyone thanks Harvey Weinstein,
eat a meatball sub.
-Any time they show Judi Dench, take off an article of
clothing.
-Any time Maggie Smith wins, take off an article of clothing
(She’s nominated twice, so wear layers.)
The Golden Globes air Sunday night at 8pm ET on CTV.
Who do you think will win?
Who do you think will win?
