My 74th Golden Globes Predictions

The nominees for the 74th Golden Globes were announced yesterday and upon reading the list, film critics worldwide have had the same reaction `WTF?’ Seriously, WTF? There are some truly, well-deserved nominees on this list but there others where it’s clear selectors have gone “shit, we’ve only got three nominees and we need five, ahhh lets throw her in there, him over there and give that one a nod too.”

Considered a `sort-of, not really' indicator of which direction the Oscars are heading, below is a breakdown of the nominees in the most important categories. I've placed a star next to the ones which, in a perfect world, I would like to win and have included what I think are the major oversight's in each category.

There have been so many spanners' thrown in here, I don't even know where to start analysing some of these nominations. I'll launch with Avatar though, which is looking like a promising front runner for the Oscars and it's nice to see it getting the critical acclaim it deserves for literally revolutionising filmmaking and the cinema experience we've come to know. Plenty of nods for Inglorious Basterds too, wahoo, and if Stanley Tucci hadn't been so incredibly brilliant as the serial killer in The Lovely Bones I'd say Christopher Waltz would be a shoe-in for best supporting actor. He probably still is.

But WTF happened to Moon? Yeah, remember that amazing sci-fi slice of excellence which had one of the best performances of the year from Sam Rockwell who's the only actor in the whole friggin' thing! Massive oversight and I really hope the Oscar crew have a deeper field of vision than the Golden Globe douches who are so busy getting moist for Nine and Bullock (The Proposal, really?) that they skim over a bunch of five star offerings. Sigh.

I really could rant on forever, but at the end of the day I only have a passing interest in the globes because there are so many extended categories that fail to exist at the Oscars a lot of the nominees don't matter. Like good ol' Woody Allen says, awards don't mean anything, they don't take away or add to the enjoyment of a film for the audience and just because something gets a shiny, gold statue that doesn't mean it's superior in the scheme of filmmaking. So there *insert tongue poking here*.

I will say this though, the widened field of ten best picture nominees at the Oscars next year is going to make things very interesting (FYI if I had a moustache I'd be stroking it right now). The 74th Golden Globe awards will air on Monday, Jan 17 for us Aussies and Oscar nom's are announced shortly before then.

Oh, and HOORAY FOR JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT! GO SON! His first of what should have been MANY Golden Globe nominations but it's cool, he's got one now and hopefully his award winning cycle shall begin.