GOLDEN GLOBE PREDICTIONS!!!

It's always a headache. I'm never fully confidant. There's things I'd love to go back and change, switch around or drop completely. Same shit, different year.

As usual, the HFPA sometimes nominates 6 things, so I've enclosed 2 alternatives as well as a "No guts, no glory" which won't get me points for my score, rather bragging rights! I'm hoping for some surprise The Bourne Ultimatum love, just so the series could get something.

Ashley Judd, Hayden Panetierre and a currently unannounced third will reveal the nominations Thursday morning around 8AM. I'd really love Miss Judd (or one of the other two) to get to read 'Ashley Judd - Bug.' In fact, that would be the biggest "WAHOO!" of the morning for me, followed closely by 'Leslie Mann - Knocked Up.' Mann could end up being this year's Emily Blunt, we'll see. On a sidenote, I hope they announce all the categories, as last year the first "round" of nominees was announced but not broadcast. I remember everyone freaking out when the rumor hit that Blunt had been nominated but no one heard it directly or could get confirmation till after the list had been posted on the Hollywood Foreign Press's website. Fun times. But I live for this stuff.

(EDIT 12/13 - 11:26PM -- Judd apparently isn't announcing now? Hayden will be joined by Ryan Reynolds, Dane Cook (VOMIT!) and Quentin Tarantino. Could they really not find better people to announce?)

Here goes..



Motion Picture - Drama:
Atonement - Into the Wild - Michael Clayton - No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood
6th: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead; 7th: 3:10 To Yuma; No Guts, No Glory: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical:
Charlie Wilson's War - Hairspray - Juno - Knocked Up - Sweeney Todd
6th: Lars and the Real Girl; 7th: Once; NGNG: I'm Not There

Director:
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men
Sean Penn - Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright - Atonement
6th: PT Anderson - There Will Be Blood
7th: Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
NGNG: David Fincher - Zodiac

Screenplay:
Atonement - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Juno - No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood
6th: Charlie Wilson's War; 7th: Michael Clayton; NGNG: Knocked Up

Actor - Drama:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Frank Langella - Starting Out in the Evening
James McAvoy - Atonement
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
6th: Denzel Washington - American Gangster
7th: Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
NGNG: Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild

Actor - Comedy/Musical:
Steve Carell - Dan in Real Life
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson's War
Seth Rogen - Knocked Up
6th: Richard Gere - The Hoax
7th: Don Cheadle - Talk to Me
NGNG: Glen Hansard - Once

Actress - Drama:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Jodie Foster - The Brave One
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley - Atonement
6th: Sienna Miller - Interview
7th: Tang Wei - Lust, Caution
NGNG: Ashley Judd - Bug

Actress - Comedy/Musical:
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Nicole Kidman - Margot at the Wedding
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno
6th: Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd
7th: Keri Russell - Waitress
NGNG: Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray

Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
John Travolta - Hairspray
6th: Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
7th: Max Von Sydon - The Diving Bell...
NGNG: Ben Foster - 3:10 To Yuma

Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
6th: Leslie Mann - Knocked Up
7th: Vanessa Redgrave - Atonement
NGNG: Jennifer Garner - Juno

Original Score:
3:10 To Yuma - The Assassination of Jesse James... - Atonement - Lust, Caution - There Will Be Blood
6th: Ratatouille

Original Song:
Enchanted - The Golden Compass - Hairspray - Into the Wild - Once
6th: Grace Is Gone

Foreign Language Film:
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - The Kite Runner - Lust, Caution - The Orphanage
6th: La Vie En Rose

Animated Film:
Persepolis - Ratatouille - The Simpsons Movie
(Are there 3 or 5 here?)


And for TV...

GO PUSHING DAISIES!!!