1/9 UPDATE: I got 8 out of 14 picks correct (*where noted):
Sunday Night’s 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards are going to make history: Jimmy Fallon is hosting for the first time. Meryl Streep is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award AND she could also win for her performance in “Florence Foster Jenkins”. And for the third straight year (and 11th time in the last 15) – the Globes’ pick for Best Drama [likely] WON’T win the Best Picture Oscar. Here are my Movie Category Predictions:
Best Picture: Drama – “Manchester by the Sea”
(Winner: “Moonlight”)
*Best Actor: Drama – Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
Best Actress: Drama – Natalie Portman, “Jackie”
(Winner: Isabelle Huppert – “Elle”)
*Best Picture: Comedy or Musical – “La La Land”
Best Actor: Comedy or Musical – Hugh Grant, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
(Winner: Ryan Gosling – “La La Land”)
*Best Actress: Comedy or Musical – Emma Stone, “La La Land”
Best Supporting Actor – Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
(Winner: Aaron Taylor-Johnson – “Nocturnal Animals”)
*Best Supporting Actress – Viola Davis, “Fences”
*Best Director – Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”
Best Screenplay – “Manchester by the Sea”
(Winner: “La La Land”)
Best Animated Feature – “Kubo and the Two Strings”
(Winner: “Zootopia”)
*Best Foreign-Language Film – “Elle”
*Best Original Score – “La La Land”
*Best Original Song – “City of Stars”, “La La Land”
Get ready for the show by doing my LCJ Golden Globes Word Search
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases. All together he has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9.
Jackson is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most respected awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA. He votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.