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.

Tags: Golden Globes 2010, Golden Globe awards, awards, award nominees, movies, Hollywood, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 57th annual golden globes

I’ve never had a problem eating food from a gas station.  Just two weeks ago, I ate a couple of hot dogs purchased from a gas station.  They were delicious.  That’s not the first time I’ve eaten gas station food, and I doubt it will be the last.  There’s nothing like a fun food novelty. […]

Commissioner Roger Goodell gathered 32 NFL owners for one big question.  One of the league’s most wanderlust-stricken franchises is looking to move again.  The Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders, tired of gutting it out in a run-down stadium, were once again looking for greener pastures.  Only the Miami Dolphins refused to cooperate.  With a vote of 31-1, […]

In 2006, an injury to Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe opened the door for an undrafted free agent by the name of Tony Romo to take the helm of America’s Team and lead the Dallas Cowboys to an early playoff exit.  Bledsoe went from starter to afterthought in a season.  Now, the circle continues […]

For 89 years, Oscars has never had a major mistake.  The last few Oscars might have had a few flubs, but at least they never got the most important category of the night wrong.  Well, that’s now changed, all thanks to OG Bonnie and Clyde legends Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.  When Faye Dunaway called […]

Tom Brady has been wildly successful, if controversial.  He’s the first quarterback ever to win five Super Bowls and only the second player to do so after Charles Haley.  Unlike Haley, Brady won all his Super Bowls with the same team, the New England Patriots.  The only thing that seems to be able to stop […]

Ben Affleck, no matter what you might think of him, is a talented actor and director.  He’s got the goods, but he’s smart enough to know when he’s in over his head.  All along, since he took on the mantle of Batman, he’s had his eyes on writing, directing, and starring as the Caped Crusader. […]

In May, students for the for-profit American College of Education were running into some problems.  Their access to email accounts and course information was locked down by Google, who had disabled their accounts.  The reason why?  A fired IT worker for the American College of Education locked the school out of their Google cloud account. […]