Golden Globe Nomination Predictions

Nominations for the 64th Annual Golden Globes are due in this Thursday. Here is how I think they will go down.

Best Motion Picture – Drama
United 93
Flags of Our Fathers
The Departed
The Queen
Babel

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Kate Winselt – Little Children
Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Penelope Cruz – Volver
Naomi Watts – The Painted Veil

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happiness
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Peter O’Toole – Venus

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Borat
The Devil Wears Prada
Stranger than Fiction

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Beyonce Knowles – Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Renee Zelwegger – Miss Potter
Annette Benning – Running with Scissors

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat
Aaron Eckhart – Thank You for Smoking
Will Ferrell – Stranger than Fiction
Jamie Foxx – Dreamgirls
Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
Catherine O’Hara – For Your Consideration
Adriana Barraza – Babel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson – The Departed
Brad Pitt – Babel
Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond
Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine

Best Foreign Language Film
Volver
Apocalypto
Curse of the Golden Flower
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Lives of Others

Best Director – Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Babel
Bill Condon – Dreamgirls
Stephen Frears – The Queen

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Peter Morgan – The Queen
Guillermo Arriaga – Babel
Pedro Almodovar – Volver
William Monahan – The Departed
Bill Condon – Dreamgirls

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
Gustavo Santaolalla – Babel
Hans Zimmer – The Da Vinci Code
Howard Shore – The Departed
Alexandre Desplat – The Queen

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Melissa Etheridge – I Need to Wake Up, An Inconvenient Truth
Beyonce Knowles – Listen, Dreamgirls
Jennifer Hudson – Love You I Do, Dreamgirls
Eddie Murphy – Patience, Dreamgirls
The Dixie Chicks – The Neighbor, Shut Up and Sing

Best Television Show – Drama
24
Brothers & Sisters
Heroes
The Sopranos
Grey’s Anatomy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Calista Flockhart – Brothers & Sisters
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer
Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters
Patricia Arquette – Medium

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Michael C. Hall – Dexter
Hugh Laurie – House
Kiefer Sutherland – 24
James Woods – Shark
James Gandolfini – The Sopranos

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Weeds
My Name is Earl
The Office
Scrubs
Ugly Betty

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Musical Or Comedy
Eva Longoria – Desperate Housewives
America Ferarra – Ugly Betty
Mary Louise Parker – Weeds
Marcia Cross – Desperate Housewives
Tina Fey – 30 Rock

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Zach Braff – Scrubs
Steve Carell – The Office
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Jason Lee – My Name is Earl
Charlie Sheen – Two and a Half Men

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Sandra Oh – Grey’s Anatomy
Jamie Pressley – My Name is Earl
Elizabeth Perkins – Weeds
Vanessa Williams – Ugly Betty
Katherine Heigl – Grey’s Anatomy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mine-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jeremy Piven – Entourage
Forrest Whitaker – The Shield
Masi Oka – Heroes
Gregory Itzin – 24
Steven Weber – Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip