Film: Golden Globe Guess 2010

With just hours apart from the very first moment the first celebrity graces the red carpets of the Golden Globe Awards 2010, appointed host Ricky Gervais is probably sleeping the hours off before waking up to a hilarious mood as he seems pretty nonchalant about preparations (if any at all!). With his confidence in moving the audience with his English-accented words of wits in place, so is MSR's prediction list for the Golden Globe Awards 2010!

A word of warning though, the choice of winners depicted within this prediction list definitely does not reflect the recognition of MSR's Editorial . There appears to be a thick line between nominees who WILL win and nominees who DESERVE TO win, as award ballots are voted and finally decided by the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association). With that in mind, MSR attempts to creep within the shoes of the foreign press members and figure out their minds on the Golden Globe Awards.

Here's MSR's Golden Globe Awards Prediction List 2010:

Best Picture: AVATAR
James Cameron's Avatar has shattered box office expectations in the US as well as overseas and enjoyed its fair share of extensive media publicity exposure that generated an enormous buzz proving to be extremely difficult to ignore by the foreign press. We're definitely backing "The Hurt Locker" to win, but it will be a hard rock to move when convincing the foreign press as it under-performed at both the local and international box office. Remember "Titanic"? Yeah, this year's probably going to be like "Titanic" albeit without Jack & Rose.

Best Actress - Drama: SANDRA BULLOCK (The Blind Side)
Golden Globe has been known not to favour new talents, such as Carey Mulligan whom we totally back to win convincingly. The HFPA will want to reward Sandra for trying so hard to shake off her rom-com impression here over her other nomination for a film that didn't sit that well with them. "The Blind Side" was widely accepted even by critics, this could be Sandra's year although we're still backing Carey in our hearts.

Best Actor - Drama: JEFF BRIDGES (Crazy Heart)
Four of these five have really rendered spectacular performances, and we're going with Jeff Bridges. We think George Clooney could emerge as every body's hot favourite to win it too, this category is indeed tricky.

Best Comedy or Musical: THE HANGOVER
There's only one musical in this category, which ended up as a flop with the critics. If they were to pick a winner out of four comedies, we reckon they'll pick the one that made them laugh their foreign bottoms off.

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical: MERYL STREEP (Julie & Julia)
Sandra's comedy performance recognition will really contradict her win for her serious role, which is what she will be rewarded for - her convincing shift away from comedy. So it'll be Meryl Streep, but for which movie? Interesting, hmmm. We'll go with her role in "Julie & Julia".

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical: ROBERT DOWNING JR. (Sherlock Holmes)
Last year, if not for Ledger's extremely disturbing performance as The Joker, Robert might have won for one of his outstanding performances in "Tropic Thunder" since his comeback from his bad-boy past. Matt Damon did a better job in our opinion, but we think he'll go on for the big kill later on in March. This might be Robert's reward for a year long wait for deserved recognition.

Best Supporting Actress: MO'NIQUE (Precious)
Hands down, enough said if you caught her in "Precious", that is. The best potential contender who might vie for the win will probably be one of the two "Up in the Air" ladies.

Best Supporting Actor: CHRISTOPH WALTZ (Inglourious Basterds)
There should be nothing standing between this man and his "Bravery Badge" for his fabulous performance in globally-acclaimed "Inglourious Basterds", not even The Basterds.

Best Animated Film: UP
We actually preferred "Fantastic Mr. Fox", but "Up" can hardly avoid giving their acceptance speech as it is every body's favourite. Besides, it's Pixar. They always win.

Best Foreign Language Film: DAS WEISSE BAND
The White Ribbon has been winning film festival awards during its run, thus it will be giving "Broken Embraces" a pretty good fight in this category.

Best Director: KATHRYN BIGELOW (The Hurt Locker)
Yes we know, just because she's possibly going on to be the first female director to win this doesn't mean she shouldn't. Her performance definitely edged over those of others in this category. If "Avatar" is to meet expectations and sweep as many awards as they can, at the very least justice must prevail here for Kathryn.

Best Screenplay: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
We seriously do not know which to pick when we feel that there should be a further division of this category into "Adapted" and "Original" equivalents. "Up in the Air" for adapted screenplay and "Inglourious Basterds" for original screenplay. Foreign press hits off well with Tarantino's work, so we're thinking that "Inglourious Basterds" might push for a glorious victory.

Best Original Score: AVATAR
This is also mostly due to the hyper buzz revolving around this film, if not we'd have just stuck with "Up".

Best Original Song: "I See You"
Yes, initially we had written "The Weary Kind" of "Crazy Heart" and left it at that. However, we pondered quite a bit and almost forgotten how Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" with "Titanic" is akin to this situation.

Should any of these predictions go awfully unwell, we should see it as a positive note knowing how the foreign press have went out of their way to recognise deserving winners.