By Lisa-Marie Burrows
The GOLDEN GLOBES 2014 are only a matter of hours away. The stars will shortly be hotfooting it across the red carpet in their beautiful outfits, but the big question is, who could be the big winners?
The 71st annual Golden Globe Awards are decided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which reports on TV and film for publications around the world. Here are the Film and TV Now predictions…
Best Picture, Drama
Nominees:
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush
Predicted Winner – GRAVITY
Contender – 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
Nominees
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street
Predicted winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE
Contender: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Best Director
Nominees
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Predicted winner: ALFONSO CUARON
Contender: STEVE MCQUEEN
Best Actor, Drama
Nominees
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All is Lost
Predicted winner: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Contender: CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
Best Actress, Drama
Nominees
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet, Labor Day
Predicted winner: SANDRA BULLOCK
Contender: CATE BLANCHETT
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her
Predicted winner: LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Contender: BRUCE DERN
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Predicted winner: AMY ADAMS
Contender: MERYL STREEP
Best Supporting Actor
Nominees:
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Predicted winner: DANIEL BRUHL
Contender: MICHAEL FASSBENDER
Best Supporting Actress
Nominees:
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Predicted winner: JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Contender: LUPITA NYONG’O
Best Animated Feature Film
Nominees:
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Predicted winner: FROZEN
Contender: THE CROODS
Best Foreign Language Film
Nominees:
Blue is the Warmest Colour
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
The Wind Rises
Predicted winner: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR
Contender: THE WIND RISES
Best Screenplay
Nominees:
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena
Spike Jonze, Her
Bob Nelson, Nebraska
John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Eric Singer and David O. Russell, American Hustle
Predicted winner: JOHN RIDLEY
Contender: STEVE COOGAN AND JEFF POPE
Best Original Song
Nominees:
“Atlas,” The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“Let It Go,” Frozen
“Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
“Please Mr. Kennedy,” Inside Llewyn Davis
“Sweeter Than Fiction,” One Chance
Predicted winner: “ORDINARY LOVE,” MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Contender: “LET IT GO,” FROZEN
Best Original Score
Nominees:
Alex Ebert, All is Lost
Alex Heffes, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Steven Price, Gravity
John Williams, The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer, 12 Years a Slave
Predicted winner: ALEX HEFFES – MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Contender: HANS ZIMMER – 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Who will be the deserved winners at the Awards? Good luck to all of the nominees!