2013 Golden Globe Predictions

As much as I love the Golden Globes for sticking tv and movie actors and actresses in one room for a night of drunken camraderie, I do no like making my ballot picks for this award show. It is so difficult to predict what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will deem award-worthy. I mean, they thought that Glee was a comedy and deserving of nominations. This year's out-there picks include Smash, the show everyone hate-watched, for best tv comedy or musical. I guess they were trying to fill the musical part of the category?

The more tv I watch, the more conflicted I become with baots. It is like picking a favorite child. Sure, everyone has a favorite but they don't like making that choice. You want all of your kids to do well in these award shows. But that just can't happen. And god forbid you pick another show that you hate above one of your own. That is the ultimate betrayal. So it's a fine line between picking who is most likely to win and who you want to win out of the bottom of your heart. Anyway, here it goes.

Update: 16 out of 25. Led the pack of my friends, which I'm psyched about because I love being right. Overall, I'm satisified with all the wins. I should have gone with my gut with Damian Lewis. I guess all the Breaking Bad I've been catching up on swayed me. Live and learn.

Best Motion Picture, Drama

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director

Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

Best Actor, Drama

Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Richard Gere - Arbitrage
John Hawkes - The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight

Best Actress, Drama

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
Naomi Watts - The Impossible
Rachel Weisz - The Deep Blue Sea

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical

Jack Black - Bernie
Bradley Cooper- Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Ewan McGregor - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray - Hyde Park on Hudson

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical

Emily Blunt - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Maggie Smith - Quartet
Meryl Streep - Hope Springs

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin - Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman- The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams - The Master
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Nicole Kidman - The Paperboy

Best Screenplay

Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Django Unchained
Argo

Best Animated Film

Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film

Amour
A Royal Affair
The Intouchables
Kon-Tiki
Rust and Bone

Best Original Score

Life of Pi
Argo
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln

Best Original Song

"For You," Act of Valor
"Not Running Anymore," Stand Up Guys
"Safe and Sound," The Hunger Games
"Skyfall," Skyfall
"Suddenly," Les Miserables

Best Television Series, Drama

Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
Homeland
The Newsroom

Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical

The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Girls
Modern Family
Smash

Best Actor, Television Drama

Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels - The Newsroom
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Damian Lewis - Homeland

Best Actress, Television Drama

Connie Britton - Nashville
Glenn Close - Damages
Claire Danes - Homeland
Michelle Dockery - Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife

Best Actor, Television Comedy or Musical

Don Cheadle - House of Lies
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Louis C.K. - Louie
Matt LeBlanc - Episodes
Jim Parson - The Big Bang Theory

Best Actress, Television Comedy or Musical

Zooey Deschanel - New Girl
Julia Louis- Dreyfus - Veep
Lena Dunham - Girls
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation

Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television

Game Change
The Girl
Hatfields & McCoys
The Hour
Political Animals

Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture made for television

Kevin Costner - Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock
Woody Harrelson - Game Change
Toby Jones - The Girl
Clive Owen - Hemingway & Gellhorn

Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture made for television

Nicole Kidman - Hemingway & Gellhorn
Jessica Lange - American Horror Story
Sienna Miller - The Girl
Julianne Moore- Game Change
Sigourney Weaver - Political Animals

Best Performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, miniseries, or a motion picture made for television

Max Greenfield - New Girl
Ed Harris - Game Change
Danny Huston - Magic City
Mandy Patinkin - Homeland
Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family

Best Performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, miniseries, or a motion picture made for television

Hayden Panettiere - Nashville
Archie Panjabi - The Good Wife
Sarah Paulson - Game Change
Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara - Modern Family