Well tonight’s one of the biggest night in movies, the Golden Globes. This is just a quick refresher as to who’s up for what, who we’d like and who we THINK will win.
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Who’s up: Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The King’s Speech & The Social Network
Who’ll win: The King’s Speech
Who we’d like to win: The King’s Speech – all films have had a huge buzz. Since only two of these are out in the UK, we’re gonna say The King’s Speech over TSN.
BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Who’s up: Alice in Wonderland, Burlesque, The Kid’s Are All Right, Red, The Tourist
Who’ll win: The Kid’s Are All Right
Who we’d like to win: Burlesque, all of the above have their redeeming elements, but Burlesque was just… just… so.. awesome!
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Who’s up: Despicable Me, How To Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, Tangled, Toy Story 3
Who’ll win: Toy Story 3
Who we’d like to win: Toy Story 3 – it maintained the same high quality standard of the previous two – a touching, funny sequel.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS – DRAMA
Who’s up: Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams
Who’ll win: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR – DRAMA
Who’s up: Jesse Eisenberg, Colin Firth, James Franco, Ryan Gosling, Mark Wahlberg
Who’ll win: Colin Firth
Who we’d like to see win: I’d like to go with Mark Wahlberg as he looks phenomenal in TF but we’ll back Colin Firth seen as we’ve not see TF.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Who’s up: Annette Bening, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone
Who’ll win: Julianne Moore
Who we’d like to see win: Emma Stone, she was wonderful in Easy A, showing she’s a likeable and talented actress.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Who’s up: Johnny Depp (x2), Paul Giamatti, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kevin Spacey
Who’ll win: Paul Giamatti
Who we’d like to see win: Jake!
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE – ACTRESS
Who’s up: Amy Adams, Helena Bonham Carter, Mila Kunis, Melissa Leo, Jacki Weaver
Who’ll win: Amy Adams
Who we’d like to win: Helena Bonham Carter – exceptional in TKS, but we prefer the monkey version in Planet of the Apes (lolz)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE – ACTOR
Who’s up: Christian Bale, Michael Douglas, Andrew Garfield, Jeremy Renner, Geoffrey Rush
Who’ll win: If by performance – Rush, if by sympathy Douglas (I’m thinking it may be sympathy)
Who we’d like to win: Geoffrey Rush
BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Who’s up: Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Tom Hooper, Chris Nolan, David O. Russell
Who’ll win: Hooper/Nolan
Who we’d like to win: Tom Hooper
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Who’s up: ‘Bound to You’ (Burlesque), ‘Coming Home’ (Country Strong), ‘I See The Light’ (Tangled), There’s A Place For Us (Narnia shiz), You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me (Burlesque)
Who’ll win: Country Strong
Who we’d like to win: Country Strong/ YHSTLOM (Burlesque)
That’s the biggies, now I’m off to get my tux on!