Golden Globe Predictions

I suppose I should go and take a stab at predicting the Golden Globe noms which will be announced in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.  So here they are.  I have predicted five nominees in each category bjt the HPFA has gone with six on more than one occasion - which is where the alternate choices come in.   Of course some of them I maybe cheat a little by naming as many as four alternates. 

Best Picture (Drama)

• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Up in the Air
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus

alt: Precious or The Last Station or Avatar 

Best Picture (Comedy or Musical)

• Nine
• Julie & Julia
• It's Complicated
• Sherlock Holmes
  
• A Serious Man

alt: The Hangover or (500) Days of Summer 

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
• Clint Eastwood (Invictus)
• Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
• Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
• James Cameron (Avatar)

alt: Lee Daniels (Precious) or Pedro Almadovar (Broken Embraces) 

Best Actor (Drama)

• George Clooney (Up in the Air)
• Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
• Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
• Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
• Colin Firth (A Single Man)

alt: Johnny Depp (Public Enemies) or Toby Maguire (Brothers) 

Best Actress (Drama)

• Carey Mulligan (An Education)
• Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
• Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
• Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
• Michelle Pfieffer (Cheri)

alt: Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria) or Abbie Cornish (Bright Star) or Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel) or Hilary Swank (Amelia) 

Best Actor (Comedy or Musical)

• Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine)
• Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes)
• Matt Damon (The Informant!)
• Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer)

alt: Sacha Baron Cohen (Bruno) or Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) 

Best Actress (Comedy or Musical)

• Marion Cotillard (Nine)
• Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
• Zooey Deschanel (500 Days of Summer)
• Sandra Bullcok (The Proposal)
• Meryl Streep (It's Complicated)

alt: Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth) or Amy Adams (Julie & Julia) 

Best Supporting Actor

• Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
• Alfred Molina (An Education)
• Stanley Tucci (Julie & Julia or The Lovely Bones)
• Matt Damon (Invictus)
• Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)

alt: Alec Baldwn (It's Complicated) or Christopher Plummer (The Last Station) 

Best Supporting Actress

• Mo'Nique (Precious)
• Penelope Cruz (Nine)
• Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
• Julianne Moore (A Single Man)
• Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)

alt: Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) or Natalie Portman (Brothers) 

Best Screenplay

• Up in the Air
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• An Education

alt: The Messenger or A Serious Man or The Last Station 

Best Foreign Film

• Broken Embraces
• The White Ribbon
• Coco Before Chanel
• A Prophet
• Lebanon

Best Animated Film

• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Up
• Ponyo
  
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline

That's my line-up.  Taking a bit of a chance with not nominating Precious and I can't help but name Melanie Laurent for Supporting Actress.  We'll see Tuesday morning...