70th Golden Globe Predications
by dhiego_01 | created - 26 Nov 2012 | updated - 27 Nov 2012 | PublicMy predications for 2013 Golden Globe Awards nominations, based on critical response.
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1. Lincoln (2012)
PG-13 | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Votes: 274,186 | Gross: $182.21M
Best Motion Picture - Drama (Winner)
Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Daniel Day-Lewis) (Winner)
Best Director - Motion Picture (Steven Spielberg)
Best Original Score (Winner)
Best Screenplay (Winner)
BUZZ: VERY HIGH
2. Les Misérables (2012)
PG-13 | 158 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Votes: 347,856 | Gross: $148.81M
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Winner)
Best Director - Motion Picture (Tom Hooper)
Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Hugh Jackman) (Winner)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Anne Hathaway, Samantha Barks, Helena Bonham Carter, Amanda Seyfried) (Winner, Hathaway)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Eddie Redmayne, Russel Crowe)
Best Original Song (Suddenly) (Winner)
Best Screenplay
BUZZ: VERY HIGH
3. Argo (2012)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Votes: 642,760 | Gross: $136.03M
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Director - Motion Picture (Ben Affleck) (Winner)
Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Ben Affleck)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Alan Arkin)
Best Original Score
Best Screenplay
BUZZ: VERY HIGH
4. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver
Votes: 746,954 | Gross: $132.09M
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Best Director - Motion Picture (David O. Russel)
Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Bradley Cooper)
Best Actress Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Jennifer Lawrence) (Winner)
Best Screenplay
Best Original Score
BUZZ: VERY HIGH
5. The Master (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, History
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 187,402 | Gross: $16.38M
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Director - Motion Picture (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Philip Seymoun Hoffman) (Winner)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Amy Adams)
Best Original Score
Best Screenplay
BUZZ: VERY HIGH
6. Django Unchained (2012)
R | 165 min | Drama, Western
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Votes: 1,703,195 | Gross: $162.81M
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Director - Motion Picture (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Jamie Foxx)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Kerry Washington)
Best Original Score
Best Screenplay
BUZZ: HIGH
7. Flight (I) (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman
Votes: 378,187 | Gross: $93.77M
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Denzel Washington)
Best Screenplay
BUZZ: HIGH
8. Anna Karenina (I) (2012)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen
Votes: 107,141 | Gross: $12.82M
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Keira Knightley) (Winner)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Jude Law)
BUZZ: HIGH
9. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray
Votes: 368,971 | Gross: $45.51M
Best Picture - Comedy or Musical
Best Screenplay
BUZZ: HIGH
10. Life of Pi (2012)
PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Votes: 670,488 | Gross: $124.99M
Best Motion Picture - Drama Best Director - Motion Picture (Ang Lee) Best Original Score Best Screenplay
11. Hitchcock (2012)
PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.
Director: Sacha Gervasi | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston
Votes: 79,725 | Gross: $6.01M
Best Motion Picture - Drama Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Anthony Hopkins) Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Helen Mirren) Best Original Score Best Screenplay
12. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
R | 157 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong
Votes: 320,692 | Gross: $95.72M
Best Motion Picture - Drama Best Director - Motion Picture (Kathryn Bigelow) Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Jessica Chastain) Best Original Score Best Screenplay
13. The Sessions (2012)
R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood
Votes: 44,289 | Gross: $6.00M
Best Motion Picture - Drama Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (John Hawkes) Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helen Hunt)
14. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
PG-13 | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Director: Benh Zeitlin | Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes
Votes: 85,622 | Gross: $12.80M
Best Motion Picture - Drama Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Quvenzhane Wallis) Best Original Score Best Screenplay
15. Amour (2012)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Votes: 106,391 | Gross: $6.74M
Best Picture - Drama Best Foreign Language Film (Winner) Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Emmanuelle Riva)
16. The Hunger Games (2012)
PG-13 | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 1,009,049 | Gross: $408.01M
Best Picture - Drama Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Jennifer Lawrence) Best Original Score Best Original Song - Abraham's Daught
17. Skyfall (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench
Votes: 735,114 | Gross: $304.36M
Best Picture - Drama Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Javier Bardem) Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Judi Dench) Best Original Song (Skyfall)
18. Trouble with the Curve (2012)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout, by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last.
Director: Robert Lorenz | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake
Votes: 68,919 | Gross: $35.76M
Best Actor Motion Picture - Drama (Clint Eastwood) Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Amy Adams)
19. Rust and Bone (2012)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette
Votes: 70,798 | Gross: $2.06M
Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama (Marion Cotillard) Best Foreign Language Film
20. Hope Springs (2012)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Director: David Frankel | Stars: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart
Votes: 44,527 | Gross: $63.54M
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Best Actress Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Mery Streep) Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Tommy Lee Jones)
21. Ted (2012)
R | 106 min | Comedy
John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear, Ted or his girlfriend, Lori.
Director: Seth MacFarlane | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale
Votes: 660,824 | Gross: $218.82M
Best Picture - Comedy or Musical Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Mark Walhberg) Best Original Song - Everybody Needs a Best Friend
22. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 100,009 | Gross: $46.41M
Best Picture - Comedy or Musical Best Actress Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Judi Dench) Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Maggie Smith
23. Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
R | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West
Votes: 12,463 | Gross: $6.37M
Best Picture - Comedy or Musical Best Actress Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Laura Linney) Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Bill Murray)
24. Magic Mike (2012)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Munn, Matthew McConaughey
Votes: 148,071 | Gross: $113.72M
Best Picture - Comedy or Musical Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Channing Tattum) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Matthew McConaughey)
25. Take This Waltz (2011)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Aaron Abrams
Votes: 30,455 | Gross: $1.24M
Best Actress Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Michelle Williams)
26. Dark Shadows (2012)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 282,102 | Gross: $79.73M
Best Actor Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Johnny Depp)
27. Brave (2012)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.
Directors: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters
Votes: 444,540 | Gross: $237.28M
Best Animated Film (Winner) Best Original Score Best Original Song (Learn Me Right, Touch the Sky)
28. Frankenweenie (2012)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau
Votes: 117,794 | Gross: $35.29M
Best Animated Film Best Original Score Best Original Song (Strange Love)
29. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
PG | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.
Director: Rich Moore | Stars: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman
Votes: 460,840 | Gross: $189.42M
Best Animated Film Best Original Score
30. Rise of the Guardians (2012)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
Director: Peter Ramsey | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher, Chris Pine
Votes: 193,619 | Gross: $103.41M
Best Animated Film
31. ParaNorman (2012)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi
Votes: 110,585 | Gross: $56.00M
Best Animated Film
32. A Royal Affair (2012)
R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm
Votes: 51,112 | Gross: $1.55M
Best Foreign Language Film
33. The Intouchables (2011)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Votes: 934,388 | Gross: $13.18M
Best Foreign Language Film
34. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,412 | Gross: $2.34M
Best Foreign Language Film
35. Homeland (2011–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend
Votes: 362,890
Best Serie - Drama (Winner) Best Actress in a Serie - Drama (Claire Danes) (Winner) Best Actor in a Serie - Drama (Demian Lewis) (Winner) Best Supporting Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Morena Baccarin
36. Modern Family (2009–2020)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three different, but related, families face trials and tribulations in their own uniquely comedic ways.
Stars: Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell
Votes: 485,699
Best Serie - Comedy or Musical (Winner) Best Supporting Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Sofia Vergara Best Supporting Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Julie Bowen Best Supporting Actor in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Eric Stonestreet Best Supporting Actor in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Ty Bureel
37. Game Change (2012 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Peter MacNicol
Votes: 23,369
Best TV Minissérie (Winner) Best Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie (Julianne Moore) (Winner) Best Actor in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie (Woody Harrelson) Best Supporting Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Ed Harris Best Supporting Actor in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Sarah Paulson
38. Mad Men (2007–2015)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama
A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 262,027
Best Serie - Drama Best Actress in a Serie - Drama (January Jones) Best Actor in a Serie - Drama (Jon Hamm) Best Supporting Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Christina Hendricks Best Supporting Actor in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Jared Harris
39. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle
Votes: 226,067
Best Serie - Drama Best Actress in a Serie - Drama (Elizabeth McGovern) Best Actor in a Serie - Drama (Hugh Bonneville) Best Supporting Actress in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Maggie Smith (Winner)
40. Louie (2010–2015)
TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of Louie C.K., a divorced comedian living in New York with two kids.
Stars: Louis C.K., Hadley Delany, Ursula Parker, Pamela Adlon
Votes: 82,767
Best Serie - Comedy or Musical Best Actor in a Serie - Comedy or Musical (C.K Louie) (Winner)
41. Nashville (2012–2018)
TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Follows the lives and tragedies of rising and fading country music stars in Nashville, Tennessee.
Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson
Votes: 27,606
Best Serie - Drama Best Actress in a Serie - Drama (Connie Britton)
42. Veep (2012–2019)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy
Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.
Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott
Votes: 63,900
Best Serie - Comedy or Musical Best Actress in a Serie - Comedy or Musical (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) (Winner)
43. New Girl (2011–2018)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her - most of the time.
Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Hannah Simone
Votes: 246,743
Best Serie - Comedy or Musical Best Actress in a Serie - Comedy or Musical (Zooey Deschanel) Best Supporting Actor in a Serie, Minisserie, TV Movie - Max Greenfield (Winner)
44. Girls (2012–2017)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedy about the experiences of a group of girls in their early 20s.
Stars: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Adam Driver
Votes: 78,312
Best Serie - Comedy or Musical Best Actress in a Serie - Comedy or Musical (Lena Dunham)
45. Smash (2012–2013)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Musical
More drama occurs behind the scenes than on stage, as the team prepares an ambitious Broadway musical on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
Stars: Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle
Votes: 18,160
Best Serie - Comedy or Musical Best Actress in a Serie - Comedy or Musical (Katharine McPhee, Debra Messing)
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