It’s time to predict the Golden Globes winners, which you realize, if you paid the slightest attention to the strange slate of things nominated last week, is a fool’s errand. But that’s the task at hand. So here’s what a fool believes will happen at the ceremony today.
MOTION PICTURE DRAMA
“The Father”
“Mank”
“Nomadland”
“Promising Young Woman”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”
And the winner is: The HFPA could go way out there and pick the dark revenge-thriller “Promising Young Woman” or hew closer to the mainstream with “Chicago 7.” Or go with the poignant “Nomadland,” which is the direction I think it’ll go.
Unless: It did already kind of go out there and give “Promising Young Woman” writer-director Emerald Fennell two nominations. Maybe neon pink is its color?
ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE DRAMA
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
Gary Oldman, “Mank”
Tahar Rahim, “The Mauritanian”
And the winner is: The late Boseman for that electrifying final turn.
Unless: Hard to imagine this going any other way, unless that somewhat surprising best picture nomination for “The Father” spells deep pockets of support for Hopkins.