GOLDEN GLOBES

The nominations are in, the harvest is poor… it’s been a very little year in Hollywood, partly because of the writer’s strike but also because of the conjoncture… yes, conjoncture for there is no better word!
Check the nominations on:

http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2008/globes

Double Trouble’s predictions:
Best drama:
Golden globes: “There will be blood” by Paul T Anderson with Daniel Day-Lewis because it is adapted from an Upton Sinclair novel called “Oil” and the subject is soooooooo hot (and pricey) ! It also shows that the film industry is not more stupid that it already is and is actually able to have other things in mind that big yucky monsters roaming in the mist, fog, steam, dark ready to kill young pretty girls with big eyes and very few cavities (essential because they have to scream a lot and fillings are not that great visually).
My choice would be “Eastern Promises” because I have a weakness for Cronenberg since The Fly !

Best comedy:
Golden Globes: “Juno” because there has been much talk already about it and the making of Juno perpetuates the mythology Hollywood needs to maintain: little lost girl from the Midwest ends up in Hollywood making big bucks and feeds the “anything is possible” big fat lie which happens to be true as often as one wins the jackpot (AKA the Pretty Woman syndrome).
My choice: Same because the movie is -I think- quite different than the usual indie recipe and quite good.

Best actor drama:
Golden Globes: Denzel Washington coz we all love Denzel and he is devilishly great in “American Gangster”.
My choice: Viggo Mortensen because he is the most beautiful canvas a director can dream of : see Sean Penn with The Indian Runner and David Cronenberg with A history of violence and Eastern promises.

Best foreign film: “Le scaphandre et le papillon” bien sûr… (“The diving bell and the butterfly”) by Julian Shnabel.

For the rest of the categories : Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams. Javier Bardem, Coen Brothers and I wouldn’t be surprised if Cate Blanchett received two Golden Globes : one for I’m not there and one for Elizabeth.