The 68th
Annual Golden Globe Awards air on Sunday night and here are our predictions for
the winners in the film categories:
CATEGORY: Best Motion Picture, Drama
OTHER NOMINEES:
We’re giving this one to The Social
Network for one reason – it shouldn’t have been gripping and it was. This is a
film about a totally unlikable guy, who created a computer program. Who’d have
thought that it would be completely engaging, with edge of your seat drama. We
know liberties were taken, as with most biopics, but thanks to the power of
this film we still have a hard time seeing Zuckerberg as anything but a villain
despite his recent commitment to Warren Buffet and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge.
CATEGORY: Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS
PICK:
OTHER NOMINEES:
The Kids Are All Right
Burlesque is our pick because none of the other films are particularly musical or
funny. And the flick managed to stay just this side of cult camp and didn’t
quite slip into the world of Glitter or Showgirls.
CATEGORY: Best Director - Motion
Picture
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS PICK:
Darren Aronofsky — Black Swan
OTHER NOMINEES:
David
Fincher — The Social Network
Tom
Hooper — The King’s Speech
Christopher
Nolan — Inception
David
O’Russell – The Fighter
When Darren Aronofsky is good he is
very, very good and when he is bad he makes The Fountain
. Black Swan falls into
his well-made movie category, thrilling, twisted and just confusing enough to
keep you riveted to the screen.
. Black Swan falls into
his well-made movie category, thrilling, twisted and just confusing enough to
keep you riveted to the screen.
CATEGORY: Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS PICK: Mark
Walhberg – The Fighter
OTHER NOMINEES:
Jesse Eisenberg – The
Social Network
Colin Firth – The King’s
Speech
Although we admit that James Franco
is probably the most deserved, the amusement park-like warning signs scared us
off. So we’re giving this one to Mark Walhberg. Besides even most Boston-born
actors can’t pull off the tricky local accent any more. The good news is that
Marky Mark has stayed close enough to his roots to still drop his r’s
convincingly.
CATEGORY: Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS PICK:
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
OTHER NOMINEES:
Nicole Kidman – The Rabbit Hole
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
This is Natalie Portman’s year — an
engagement, a baby on the way and an inevitable slew of awards over the next
couple of months. Hopefully she’ll have placed them all comfortably on a shelf
before No Strings Attached comes out. With Black Swan she took a giant career
leap forward, but the Ashton Kutcher rom-com is sure to send her ten major
steps backwards.
CATEGORY: Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy
OTHER NOMINEES:
Johnny Depp – Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp – The Tourist
Paul Giamatti – Barney’s
Version
This year marks Johnny Depp’s ninth
and tenth Golden Globe nominations. But he only has one win, in 2008 for
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. His performances are mediocre
in both Alice in Wonderland and The Tourist and his double nod will most likely
end in a split vote. So we’re banking on the always-hip choice of Kevin Spacey
in Casino Jack to take home the prize. Besides this is his sixth nomination
with no wins. It’s Spacey time.
CATEGORY: Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy
OTHER NOMINEES:
Anne Hathaway – Love and
Other Drugs
Julianne Moore – The Kids
Are All Right
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Angelina Jolie – The Tourist
As long as the statue doesn’t go to
the truly overrated Anne Hathaway, we don’t really care who gets the prize in
this category. But we have to admit that we found Emma Stone’s performance
truly charming in the Easy A. She might not take a twirl on the stage this
year, but it certainly won’t be her last invitation to the dance.
CATEGORY: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
OTHER NOMINEES:
Christian Bale – The
Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The
Social Network
Our real pick – Arnie Hammer for his
dual roles in The Social Network – was overlooked. So we’re going to guess that
the Hollywood Foreign Press will go with the sentimental vote here and give the
nod to Michael Douglas. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps might not have been the
best movie, but Douglas has had a stellar career and a tough year in his fight
against cancer — an award show heart-tugger for sure.
CATEGORY: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS
PICK: Amy Adams – The Fighter
OTHER NOMINEES:
Helena Bonham Carter – The
King’s Speech
Mila Kunis – Black Swan
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
We have to admit, Amy Adams has
grown on us over the years. After we got over our confusion between her and
Isla Fisher, we realized that it was Fisher that we weren’t huge fans of and
that Adams was actually quite endearing. And having grown up in Boston, we have
to admit that she plays shades of our friends and cousins flawlessly in The
Fighter.
CATEGORY: Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS
PICK: The Social Network
OTHER NOMINEES:
127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
Inception
We are of the mind set that
you can’t have a best picture without a best screenplay. So since we’ve given
the big title to The Social Network we thought we should follow suit here. Plus
Aaron Sorkin managed to take what could have been a TV movie about computer
geeks and turn it into a blockbuster adventure film.
CATEGORY: Best Animated Feature Film
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS
PICK: The Illusionist
OTHER NOMINEES:
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3
Tangled
True, we are huge fans of
Despicable Me
’s minions and their Denny’s inspired treat, the CinniMinions. But director Sylvain Chomet has delivered another
beautifully animated masterpiece with The Illusionist. If you haven’t seen it,
or his film The Triplets of Belleville
, do yourself a favor and check them out.
’s minions and their Denny’s inspired treat, the CinniMinions. But director Sylvain Chomet has delivered another
beautifully animated masterpiece with The Illusionist. If you haven’t seen it,
or his film The Triplets of Belleville, do yourself a favor and check them out.
CATEGORY: Best Foreign Language Film
OTHER NOMINEES:
The Edge
In a Better World
We will sing the praises of
Biutiful and it’s brilliant star, Javier Bardem, until the day we die. While
most American moviegoers know him mostly for his Academy Award winning turn in
the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and the Julia Roberts’ chick-flick
Eat Pray Love, Bardem has been honing his craft in Spain for decades. He may
not get the exposure afforded Johnny Depp or Sean Penn, but he’s one of the
greatest actors of his generation. And Bardem barrages viewers with every
weapon in his creative arsenal in the shatteringly emotional role of Uxbal in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film. Both the Golden
Globe and Screen Actor’s Guild have overlooked his performance, but we can only
hope that Biutiful will take home the prize in his name.
CATEGORY: Best Original Song - Motion Picture
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS
PICK: “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” – Burlesque
OTHER NOMINEES:
“Bound to You” – Burlesque
In a category filled with
mediocre tunes from wanna-be divas like Gwenyth Paltrow and Mandy Moore,
there’s only one clear-cut choice. They should all bow down to Cher, while she
walks to the stage to accept her fourth Golden Globe for “You Haven’t Seen the
Last of Me.” Truer words were never sung.
CATEGORY: Best Original Score - Motion Picture
POP CULTURE PASSIONISTAS
PICK: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network
OTHER NOMINEES:
Alexandre Desplot – The
King’s Speech
Danny Elfman – Alice in
Wonderland
A.R. Rahman – 127 Hours
Hans Zimmer – Inception
Mixed amidst this year’s
super-standard scores by Alexandre Desplot and Hans Zimmer and the
always-predictable music of Danny Elfman, was a pleasant surprise. Trent Reznor
and Atticus Ross created a cool musical accompaniment, which perfectly
complimented the edgy, modern tale told in The Social Network.
The 68th
Annual Golden Globe Awards air on Sunday, January 16 at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m.
Central/5 p.m. PST on NBC.
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