Scott Feinberg reports that Birdman, Inherent Vice and Grand Budapest Hotel will compete in the Musical/Comedy category at the Globes, which helps to broaden the field for Best Picture contenders. Scott writes:
This year, along with Birdman and Inherent Vice, the musical or comedy field will include such dramedies as Tim Burton‘s Big Eyes (giving Amy Adams a chance at a best actress nom), Cake (ditto for Jennifer Aniston), Jon Favreau‘s Chef, Michael Radford‘s Elsa & Fred (a vehicle for Globes favorites Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer), Wes Anderson‘s The Grand Budapest Hotel (his Moonrise Kingdom was nominated in the category two years ago), Lasse Hallstrom‘s The Hundred-Foot Journey(look out for Helen Mirren), Woody Allen‘s Magic in the Moonlight (a year after his Blue Jasmine competed on the drama side), Gillian Robespierre‘s Obvious Child(Jenny Slate is a real best actress threat), Matthew Warchus‘ Pride, Craig Johnson‘s The Skeleton Twins (a strong play for SNL alums Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, who portray suicidal siblings), Theodore Melfi‘s St. Vincent (expect a best actor nom for Bill Murray), Shawn Levy‘s This Is Where I Leave You and Chris Rock‘s Top Five.
How do you think they will divide them up for Best Picture?
JMS, here here! Totally agree!
Whiplash is the best film I have seen all year. Not even close. Should be on top of Drama.
What better way for the HFPA to make headlines than to leave Boyhood off their list? Why not ?
As usual, I think that due to the very small number of only 90 Members of the foreign press journalists, an accurate prediction is very difficult right now.
AND WOW, I do not attach importance to the review of the so called “AWARD EXPERT GURUS”.
Now for me it seems for BP for the Globes shaping up possible like this: I am saying possible!
(Comedy or Musical):
1. Birdman
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Into the Woods
4. Pride
5. Begin Again
(Drama:)
1. Unbroken (I would be fairly surprised if this didn’t get a nom, instead could easily be voted as the big WINNER) !! Angelina and Universal Pictures….!
2. The Theory of Everything (Ediie Redmayne is fantasting new actor)
5. Gone Girl (I would be fairly surprised if this didn’t get a nom)
4. Whiplash (J.K. Simmons………Wow, what a perfect performance)
5. Boyhood
6. The Imitation Game
@Chris Price
I agree with you on Inherent Vice. It’s gonna be The Master all over again. But I hope I’m wrong.
Drama:
Selma
The Imitation Game
Gone Girl
The Theory Of Everything
Boyhood
Whiplash
Comedy/Musical:
Into The Woods
Birdman
Top Five
Chef
The Grand Budapest Hotel
St. Vincent
I think Inherent Vice gets snubbed. So does Unbroken. Just saying. I could easily see myself being wrong about this. I also included 6 in each category to hedge my bets so to speak, although there is precedent at the Globes for more than 5 BP noms.
Birdman’s totally a comedy. A very dark one, to be sure, but its attitude is essentially a comic one.
Inherent Vice LOOKS like a comedy. If they can call Her a comedy, I’m sure it qualifies.
Drama
Boyhood
Selma
Whiplash
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Comedy/Musical
Birdman
Inherent Vice
Into The Woods
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Top Five
I’m actually hoping they do another weird nomination this year in the comedy/musical category. (a la John C. Reilly for Dewey Cox, and The Hangover)
FYC – Chris Pratt for Guardians of the Galaxy
Yeah at this point I see the categories shaping up like this
COMEDY
1. Birdman
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Into the Woods
4. Pride
5. Top 5
Alternates: St. Vincent/Inherent Vice
DRAMA
1. Boyhood
2. The Imitation Game
3. Unbroken
4. The Theory of Everything
5. Gone Girl (I would be fairly surprised if this didn’t get a nom)
6. Whiplash
Alternates: Selma/Mr. Turner
Comedies that could end up getting nominated:
Pride
Top Five
Bad Words
Skeleton Twins
Begin Again
Into the Woods
Birdman
Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Chef
Category Confusion
Suppose a studio chooses their film to be submitted as Comedy/Musical. But HFPA says no. Does HFPA inform the studio before voting begins? Or do they just go ahead and vote a candidate in whichever category they like? Surely it’s in the studio’s best interest to finalize the category before voting begins, or else it risks getting their votes split into two categories and not making the nomination?
With Academy Awards, this happens with Lead and Supporting ambiguity, and if a candidate’s vote gets split into two categories, then there’s the danger of not getting enough to secure a nomination in either. I believe the Academy doesn’t combine the votes from 2 categories.
If Pride gets nominated I will cry such tears of joy! The most underrated movie of 2014 next to Edge of Tomorrow!
I think the Golden Globes – Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) category could be:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
St. Vincent
I thought we were already assuming Inherent Vice and Birdman were in Comedy here. GoldDerby was at least. In any event:
Drama:
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Selma
Unbroken
Comedy/Musical:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent
What better way for the HFPA to make headlines than to leave Boyhood off their list? It’s possible given that the film feels VERY American, doesn’t bring the star wattage of its competition and is way more independent than the group usually goes.
I must admit I’m in the dark about all the movies mentioned. As a consumer, I haven’t seen any of them, and doubt I will. I think I represent the vast majority of average movie goers. WHO is Hollywood making movies for?
I’m thinking:
BIRDMAN (which I’m happy to see in the Comedy category where I think it belongs)
GRAND BUDAPEST
INTO THE WOODS
INHERENT VICE
PRIDE (they love a BritCom)
Drama could be…
BOYHOOD
THE IMITATION GAME
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
SELMA
MR. TURNER
alt. WHIPLASH. I feel like Selma might prove too “American” for them.
so “Comedy/Musical” could look like this:
INTO THE WOODS: The cast is crowded with stars so it’s in.
BIRDMAN: By all accounts, one of the Top 5 Oscar players. In.
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL: Beloved and critically acclaimed, it would be too fishy to ignore at this point.
INHERENT VICE seems strong, but is it? There’s a lot of cineaste passion behind it. Certainly big names. Could make it safely.
Then the 5th spot is up for grabs between BIG EYES vs. a multitude of “quirky” indies, isn’t it?
I bet somehow they “fell in love” with UNBROKEN so Angelina Jolie will make their Best Director line-up.
so “Drama” looking like
UNBROKEN – It’s Jolie (they nominated BLOOD AND HONEY lol)
SELMA – Not many “big stars”, but huge Oscar player
IMITATION GAME – Weinstein, Oscar, etc
GONE GIRL, Hugely popular, Affleck, they like Fincher, right?
BOYHOOD – Duh
If they nominate six then THEORY OF EVERYTHING or WHIPLASH or AMERICAN SNIPER or maaaaybe MR. TURNER.
im thinking:
Comedy/Musical
Into the Woods
Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
St. Vincent
Top Five
Alt: The Hundred Foot Journey (the salmon fishing in the yemen, exotic marigold hotel slot)
Drama
The Theory of Everything
The Imitation Game
Boyhood
Selma
Unbroken
Alt: Something grittier like Foxcatcher or Whiplash
I guess Birdman is a comedy in comparison to, say, Nightcrawler and Selma, but this seems a bit ridiculous to me.
I’ve seen Inherent Vice four times now. And Birdman twice. One of them holds up and in fact just gets better on repeated viewings. The other reveals itself to be little more than a hollow gimmick the second time around.
I think the Drama category will be like this:
Boyhood
The Theory of Everything
Selma
The Imitation Game
Whiplash
Last year this was also a strong category with American Hustle, Her, Inside Llewyn Davis and TWOWS.
The Skeleton Twins deserves to get some notice.. hopefully a couple of nods from the Globes.
Well this comes as no surprise. I don’t think there’s any “fringe” genre being unjustly relegated to one category. At least (fingers crossed) we won’t get another The Tourist on our hands.
They have cleared field for a Boyhood Best Motion Picture Drama victory !!