It’s the most wonderful time of the year, gang.  It’s Golden Globes season, and the 57th annual Golden Globe award nominees have been announced!  Every year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rounds up their best lists and picks the winners of the Golden Globes, and every year those winners get massive amounts of Oscar buzz, so in order to prepare yourself for your Oscar predictions, eyeball the nominees for Golden Globes and start thinking.

If you’ll indulge me my predictions?  Good.  As always, all predictions guaranteed to be wrong or your money back.  This post will be long enough, so movies only.  Plus, I don’t watch a lot of TV (or not good TV) so I’m not fit to guess at that category.

In the best motion picture categories, the drama nomination will probably go with whoever wins the best picture nomination as well.  The only dual nominees are George Clooney for Up in the Air and Gabourey Sidibe from Precious.  Sidibe is getting a lot of love from the critics, but she’s a newcomer and these sorts of awards tend to be given for the body of work.  Give Best Actor Drama to Clooney, Best Actress Drama to Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side, and Best Drama to Up in the Air.  For Best Supporting Actor, I really would like to see Christopher Waltz win this one, and for Best Supporting Actress, I think Mo’Nique will in the booby prize due to Precious getting shut out.  This clears the way for Jason Reitman, one of Hollywood’s hottest young directors, to pick up the Golden Globe for Best Director.

For Best Comedy, this has to be The Hangover.  No question about it in my mind; there was not a funnier movie released this year.  For Best Actor Comedy, I’m going to reach and go with Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer, with Best Actress Comedy going to either Sandra Bullock (in case she doesn’t get the drama nod) or Marion Cotillard (because Meryl Streep’s two nominations will split her vote and deny her the statue).

If there was any justice, Up wouldn’t be in the Best Animated Feature catogory.  I mean, it’s not fair to Coraline to have to compete with the real best movie of the year, but given the way Hollywood works now animated films are separated from live-action fair thanks to Beauty and the Beast’s Oscar for Best Picture in 1994.   Up takes this one.

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