Golden Globe Nominations 2017
Wendy’s Predictions & how I did
(But I don’t have cable TV so I deleted the categories that I’m not knowledgeable of.)
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
WHO SHOULD WIN: Kinda amazed by how all of these are indie & not box office bonanza films, which is a thing of the GG. But having said that, I think MOONLIGHT will and should win. Partly because it's so consistently true to the life it's showing but yet poetic and metaphoric. Partly as a reaction to #OscarsSoWhite.
WHO WON: MOONLIGHT, which the best thing. (It got no other wins, bummer.)
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
20th Century Women
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
La La Land
Sing Street
WHO SHOULD WIN: OMG, I've only seen one of these? But 20TH C WOMEN hasn't gotten here yet. But I feel like I can go out on a limb and say that the one I've seen has blown so many people away, so it'll be: LA LA LAND.
WHO WON: LA LA LAND, o'course.
Best Director - Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
WHO SHOULD WIN: Though LA LA LAND has so much buzz and respect, the more difficult movie to direct was MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, and that should win for its so-accurate slice of middle-class Massachusetts grief.
WHO WON: Chazelle for LA LA LAND, part of that movie's complete sweep.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Amy Adams, Arrival
Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
WHO SHOULD WIN: Probably Portman in JACKIE, which I haven't seen, but it was only just released and hasn't built up an audience yet. People love a performance overcoming/accommodating grief, so I think it'll go to Adams for ARRIVAL.
WHO WON: Huppert!? Whaaaa---? As she said "for a French woman in a French film directed by a Dutch person."
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton, Loving
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
WHO SHOULD WIN: I only saw one of these! But I've still got time by the Oscars. Hmmm, Edgerton is an Aussie playing a stoic Virginia man. Nice guy Denzel is playing an angrily cruel person, which audiences like. But I do think all the buzz is about Affleck in MANCHESTER.
WHO WON: Affleck won it, with his man-bun.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill, War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
WHO SHOULD WIN: Didn't care for anything in THE LOBSTER. I believed Gosling as a musician in LA LA LAND, and Grant is said to have been full of mature charm in FF JENKINS. But it would be awesome if one of the rare (only?) R-rated superhero movies won its profane actor an award, so I hope it's Reynolds for DEADPOOL since he managed the nastiness and the humor.
WHO WON: Gosling for LA LA LAND. The foreign press LOOOOOVES that movie, so it will sweep the award, I predict.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Lily Collins, Rules Don’t Apply
Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
Emma Stone, La La Land
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
WHO SHOULD WIN: I tried to see Steinfeld and missed her! Probably this is between Stone and Bening, though, and I'm going with Stone for LA LA LAND because she's had longer to build an audience.
WHO WON: Emma Stone; I called it.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins
Dev Patel, Lion
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
WHO SHOULD WIN: I only saw MOONLIGHT, and Ali was an interesting mix of menace, protectiveness and shame. I'm happy for Patel and Helberg getting nods! Probably it'll be Ali for MOONLIGHT.
WHO WON: Taylor-Johnson! He played a homicidal hick in NOCTURNAL ANIMALS.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
WHO SHOULD WIN: Another category I've only seen two movies, but I'm working on the others. I hope HIDDEN FIGURES gets some love because its true-life story was so neglected for so long, so I'm hoping for Spencer on this one.
WHO WON: Davis won for FENCES, and I believe people who said she kills it in the role.
Best Motion Picture - Animated
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
Sing
Zootopia
WHO SHOULD WIN: Ha, maybe this tells you how my 2016 went; I saw all of these except for ZUCCHINI. People who've
read my other LiveJournal posts and Tweets probably already know it's MOANA all the way, baby!
WHO WON: ZOOTOPIA??!! It was pretty good, but MOANA was amazing. This turned out to be the most deflating win for me...
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea
Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water
WHO SHOULD WIN: Well, MOANA has the best hero story screenplay integrated with wonderful specifics of a Polynesian culture, but was it nominated? Pffftt. So, I think this one will be between LA LA LAND and MOONLIGHT, and I'm going with LA LA LAND because of the voting audience. That was a movie about trying to be a successful creative in Hollywood, and the magic of it will probably compel the voters.
WHO WON: Chazelle got it for LA LA LAND. In fact, that movie won it all.
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Nicholas Britell, Moonlight
Justin Hurwitz, La La Land
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arrival
Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran, Lion
Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, and Hans Zimmer, Hidden Figures
WHO SHOULD WIN: OMG, the sounds and non-standard, even non-melodic music in ARRIVAL are part of the experience you have; an otherwordly experience that replicates what the humans are going through. Nobody else does this level of story support with their music.
WHO WON: Hurwitz for LA LA LAND. it was a musical, but ARRIVAL does masterful stuff.
Best Television Series - Drama
The Crown, Netflix
Game of Thrones, HBO
Stranger Things, Netflix
This Is Us, NBC
Westworld, HBO
WHO SHOULD WIN: Only one of these was network TV, dang it. I watch GoT when I buy each season's DVD set. Based on the raves I heard this year, I'm thinking STRANGER THINGS will win the nostalgia vote. But WESTWORLD did some gripping & trippy plot reversals and character arcs.
WHO WON: THE CROWN. Didn't see it, but probably now I'll buy the DVD.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Sarah Jessica Parker, Divorce
Issa Rae, Insecure
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
WHO SHOULD WIN: I wish somebody else would win these, and props for there being multiple network show nominees, but Louis-Dreyfus wins all the things for a reason. She is the sharpest, wittiest woman most of us will ever see. So her again for VEEP.
WHO WON: Man, JLD lost this time! Ellis Ross, the biracial daughter of Diana Ross, won for playing Rainbeau, a working mother and surgeon, in BLACKISH.
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy
- Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Among all of these 9 categories, only 1 nominee was on basic cable, so mehhhh. Still not gonna shell out $100/month for more TV shows that keep me from writing.