72nd Golden Globe Predictions

Here are my predictions for the 72nd Golden Globes. They air this Sunday (January 11) on NBC. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host.

Note: these are not necessarily my favorites, but I’d place bets on these.

The film awards are up first:

Best Picture – Drama

• Boyhood
• Foxcatcher
• The Imitation Game
• Selma
• The Theory of Everything

Best Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Birdman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Into the Woods
• Pride
• St. Vincent

Best Leading Actor – Drama

• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis “Lou” Bloom
• David Oyelowo – Selma as Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Leading Actor – Musical or Comedy

• Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel as Monsieur Gustave H.
• Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson
• Bill Murray – St. Vincent as Vincent MacKenna
• Joaquin Phoenix – Inherent Vice as Larry “Doc” Sportello
• Christoph Waltz – Big Eyes as Walter Keane

Best Leading Actress – Drama

• Jennifer Aniston – Cake as Claire Simmons
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking
• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Leading Actress – Musical or Comedy

• Amy Adams – Big Eyes as Margaret Keane
• Emily Blunt – Into the Woods as The Baker’s Wife
• Helen Mirren – The Hundred-Foot Journey as Madame Mallory
• Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars as Havana Segrand
• Quvenzhané Wallis – Annie as Annie Bennett

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
• Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year as Anna Morales
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Director

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Ava DuVernay – Selma
• David Fincher – Gone Girl
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Screenplay

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
• Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. – Birdman
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Graham Moore – The Imitation Game

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Best Animated Film

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

The hardest category to pick was sincerely Supporting Actor. It was a literal toss up for me this year between Simmons and Norton. But enough of that. Here’s television.

Best Drama

• The Affair
• Downton Abbey
• Game of Thrones
• The Good Wife
• House of Cards

Best Musical or Comedy

• Girls
• Jane the Virgin
• Orange Is the New Black
• Silicon Valley
• Transparent

Best Miniseries of TV Film

• Fargo
• The Missing
• The Normal Heart
• Olive Kitteridge
• True Detective

Best Actor – Drama

• Clive Owen – The Knick as Dr. John “Thack” Thackery
• Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan as Ray Donovan
• Kevin Spacey – House of Cards as Francis Underwood
• James Spader – The Blacklist as Raymond “Red” Reddington
• Dominic West – The Affair as Noah Solloway

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy

• Louis C. K. – Louie as Louie
• Don Cheadle – House of Lies as Marty Kaan
• Ricky Gervais – Derek as Derek Noakes
• William H. Macy – Shameless as Frank Gallagher
• Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent as Mort/Maura Pfefferman

Best Leading Actor – Miniseries of TV Film

• Martin Freeman – Fargo as Lester Nygaard
• Woody Harrelson – True Detective as Detective Martin Hart
• Matthew McConaughey – True Detective as Detective Rustin Cohle
• Mark Ruffalo – The Normal Heart as Ned Weeks
• Billy Bob Thornton – Fargo as Lorne Malvo

Best Leading Actress – Drama

• Claire Danes – Homeland as Carrie Mathison
• Viola Davis – How to Get Away With Murder as Professor Annalise Keating, J.D.
• Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife as Alicia Florrick
• Ruth Wilson – The Affair as Alison Lockhart
• Robin Wright – House of Cards as Claire Underwood

Best Leading Actress – Musical or Comedy

• Lena Dunham – Girls as Hannah Horvath
• Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie as Jackie Peyton
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep as Vice President Selina Meyer
• Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin as Jane Gloriana Villanueva
• Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black as Piper Chapman

Best Leading Actress – Miniseries or TV Film

• Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Honourable Woman as Nessa Stein, Baroness Stein of Tilbury
• Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Freak Show as Elsa Mars
• Frances McDormand – Olive Kitteridge as Olive Kitteridge
• Frances O’Connor – The Missing as Emily Hughes / Walsh
• Allison Tolman – Fargo as Deputy Molly Solverson

Best Supporting Actor

• Matt Bomer – The Normal Heart as Felix Turner
• Alan Cumming – The Good Wife as Eli Gold
• Colin Hanks – Fargo as Officer Gus Grimly
• Bill Murray – Olive Kitteridge as Jack Kennison
• Jon Voight – Ray Donovan as Mickey Donovan

Best Supporting Actress

• Uzo Aduba – Orange Is the New Black as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren
• Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Freak Show as Ethel Darling
• Joanne Froggatt – Downton Abbey as Anna Bates
• Allison Janney – Mom as Bonnie Plunkett
• Michelle Monaghan – True Detective as Maggie Hart