1/11/15: 2015 GOLDEN GLOBE PREDICTIONS!

I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a while but I'm going to make it a new year's resolution to blog more often. I know barely anybody reads this blog (actually I don't know at all) and my lack of activity probably cost me a lot, but I still see it as a fun hobby and the only way to talk about my interests.

Speaking of which, tonight is the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on NBC. If you don't know of the Golden Globes, it's basically a more laid-back, sometimes raunchier (thanks to the hosts  such as three-in-a-row hosters Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) Oscars, awarding the best in both film and television of 2014. Now I don't care much about the television part, but I like movies, going back to the "speaking of which" of my interests. 

So here are my predictions of tonight's big show:

Best Motion Picture-Drama
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything

Best Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent

Best Performance in a Motion Picture-Drama (Actor)
Steve Carell as John Punt in Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma
Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything

Best Performance in a Motion Picture-Drama (Actress)
Jennifer Aniston as Claire Simmons in Cake
Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore as Dr. Alice Howland in Still Alice
Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliot-Dunne in Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed in Wild

Best Performance in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical (Actor)
Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H. in The Grand Budapest Hotel
Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson in Birdman
Bill Murray as Vincent MacKenna in St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix as Larry Sportello in Inherent Vice
Christoph Waltz as Walter Keane in Big Eyes

Best Performance in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical (Actress)
Amy Adams as Margaret Keane in Big Eyes
Emily Blunt as The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods
Helen Mirren as Madame Mallory in The Hundred-Foot Journey
Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand in Maps to the Stars
Quvenzhane Wallis as Annie in Annie

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture-Drama, Musical or Comedy
(Supporting Actor)
Robert Duvall as Judge Joseph Palmer in The Judge 
Ethan Hawke as Mason Evans Sr. in Boyhood
Edward Horton as Mike Shiner in Birdman
Mark Ruffalo as Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons as Terence Fletcher in Whiplash

(Supporting Actress)
Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans in Boyhood
Jessica Chastain as Anna Morales in A Most Violent Year
Keria Knightley as Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game
Emma Stone as Sam Thomson in Birdman
Meryl Streep as The Witch in Into the Woods

Best Director
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Ava DuVernay (Selma)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Best Screenplay
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Giacobone, Armando Bo and Alexander Dinelaris Jr. (Birdman)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Gone Girl)
Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)
Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)

Best Original Song
"Big Eyes" by Lana Del Ray (Big Eyes)
"Glory" by John Legend and Common (Selma)
"Mercy Is" by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye (Noah)
"Opportunity" by Greg Kurstin, Sia Furler and Will Gluck (Annie)
"Yellow Flicker Beat" by Lorde (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1)

Best Animated Film
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie

Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure (Sweden)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Israel)
Ida (Poland/Denmark)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)

Again, I don't care about the television portion. You can create your own predictions if you want.