Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Daniel Crooke's Golden Globe Predictions

It's still hard for me to grasp that Golden Globe nominations are coming out tomorrow. Here are my predictions (minus winners) with a possible 6th nominee since the Golden Globes are known for their infamous (yet occasional) "sixth nominee".

Best Picture (Drama)
Atonement
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Sixth nominee: American Gangster

Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Hairspray
Juno
Once
The Savages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sixth nominee: Lars and the Real Girl

Best Director
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joel and Ethan Coen,
No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Sean Penn
, Into the Wild
Joe Wright, Atonement
Sixth nominee: Jason Reitman, Juno

Best Actor (Drama)
Josh Brolin, No Country for Old Men
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
John Cusack, Grace Is Gone
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Denzel Washington, American Gangster
Sixth nominee: Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War
Glen Hansard, Once
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages
Sixth nominee: Michael Cera, Juno

Best Actress (Drama)
Halle Berry, Things We Lost in the Fire
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Sixth nominee: Jodie Foster, The Brave One

Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Marion Cottilard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
Sixth nominee: Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Sacha Baron Cohen, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Travolta, Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Sixth nominee: Hal Holbrook,
Into the Wild

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sixth nominee: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding

Best Screenplay
Judd Apatow, Knocked Up
Diablo Cody, Juno
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Sixth nominee: John Logan, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Score
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Grace is Gone
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille

Best Original Song
"That's How You Know", Enchanted
"Grace is Gone", Grace is Gone
"Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)", Hairspray
"Rise", Into the Wild
"Falling Slowly", Once
Sixth nominee: "Walk Hard", Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Best Animated Feature
Bee Movie
Beowulf
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie
Sixth nominee: I'm sure there probably won't be one but...Meet the Robinsons

Best Foreign Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Kite Runner
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
Sixth nominee: Persepolis

What are your predictions?

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