Awards Season officially kicks off tonight with the 77th Annual Golden Globes. The Globes, held at The Beverly Hilton, are undoubtedly the booziest of all award shows with celebs toasting at tables instead of in a formal audience. There is even an official cocktail of the 2019 Globes; the Moët Belle by Camilla Belle, made with Cachaca, mango juice, ginger syrup, lime juice and Moët Brut Impérial and will be served to the stars throughout the night.

Even if you didn’t score a ticket to the Globes, you can still party like a nominee with my delish Zephyr Silver French 75!!!! It’s not too late to run to the store and grab the ingredients, print off ballots, and throw some appetizers together! Don’t forget the popcorn!

ZEPHYR Silver French 75 Cocktail recipe

1 oz. Zephyr’s Gin

.5 oz. lemon juice

.5 oz. Cointreau

Champagne

Pour the lemon juice, gin, and Cointreau into a cocktail shaker with ice. Stir well. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute and carefully top with Champagne

Here are my predictions for tonight too!

Best Motion Picture — Drama

1917
The Irishman
Joker
Marriage Story
The Two Popes

At the moment, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Parasite feel like leading Best Picture contenders, and as luck would have it, they’re all competing separately at the Globes. The Drama category seems the likeliest venue for an upset, as The Irishman will face tough competition from its Netflix stablemates Marriage Story, which earned the most Globe nominations this year, and The Two Popes, which the HFPA went for in a major way. However, though the Globes sometimes like to go their own way further down ballot, in the top categories they prefer to bestow their approval on the Oscar front-runners.

Should win: Marriage Story
Will win: The Irishman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

Christian Bale, Ford v Ferrari
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

The Best Actor race has sort of been all over this year and you could make a credible Oscars lineup just out of the Globes’ Drama five. While Driver and Banderas have each been getting love from early voters and critics’ groups, Phoenix is the presumptive Oscars pick, and in a category whose picks have mirrored the Academy’s the past seven years, that matters. If I had it my way Adam Driver would win this! His performance was just magic!! He really showed us a different side of his acting and it was brilliant.

Should win: Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Will win: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy

Three-time Golden Globe winner Renée Zellweger has been sailing through this season with an air of inevitability that I don’t think even the HFPA is cruel enough to burst. But I really hope I am wrong because I want this to go to Charlize Theron for Bombshell.

Should win: Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Will win: Renée Zellweger, Judy

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

Dolemite Is My Name
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Rocketman

There are remarkably few duds in the Globes’ Musical/Comedy categories this year, and I would be overjoyed if a pure comedy like Dolemite or Knives Out got a moment to shine. Ultimately, though, this will come down to the movies with the strongest Oscars bona fides, and on that front you’ve gotta give Once Upon a Time and its five Globe noms the edge over Jojo Rabbit.

Should win: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Will win: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

Daniel Craig, Knives Out
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

With a lineup that matches the feature category to a tee, this category is poised to be a contest between the three showiest contenders: DiCaprio, Egerton, and Murphy. While DiCaprio is a three-time Globe winner, and Egerton has campaigned harder than anyone this season — and would fit the Globes’ penchant for handing awards to hunky young Brits, besides — if the choice comes down to which of them voters would rather see at the podium, that’s Murphy.

Should win: Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name
Will win: Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

Awkwafina, The Farewell
Cate Blanchett, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Ana de Armas, Knives Out
Beanie Feldstein, Booksmart
Emma Thompson, Late Night

Welcome to the most delightfully off-kilter category of the entire night. In a world in which Where’d You Go Bernadette (I avtually really loved this movie but do not think it’s worthy of a nomination) is nominated truly anything can happen, but in lieu of simply throwing up our hands in bewilderment, we may find it fruitful to narrow it down to the women repping films that got nominated for Picture: Awkwafina and de Armas. Though the latter has the ingenue appeal that the HFPA adores, this trophy often goes to the role with the most emotional heft, and that’s [Stephen Malkmus voice] Nora from Queens.

Should win: Awkwafina, The Farewell
Will win: Awkwafina, The Farewell

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Hanks is receiving the Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award tonight, which seems reward enough. I don’t think the Globes will be able to resist the temptation to hand this trophy to Pitt, a glamorous movie star in a role that lets him show off every ounce of his movie-star charisma (and every inch of that movie-star torso). Plus…the guy really could use a pick-me-up right now as that divorce with Angelina seems exhausting!

Should win: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Will win: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Annette Bening, The Report
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Margot Robbie, Bombshell

I’m torn. Dern is the ostensible front-runner, and feels like a handy way to ensure that Marriage Story doesn’t go home empty-handed, but Lopez feels like such a Globes pick! And certainly not by me ads I hated Hustlers and really think Jennifer should just stick to dancing!!! Sorry!!! Ultimately, I think the HFPA’s desire to crown the eventual Oscars winner will tip the scale in favor of Dern. And I am not mad about that!!!!

Should win: Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Will win: Laura Dern, Marriage Story

Best Director — Motion Picture

Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Sam Mendes, 1917
Todd Phillips, Joker
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Our three front-runners meet at last, in a face-off that should have big implications for the Oscars race. Does the HFPA hand it to its longtime fave, Scorsese, who previously won for Gangs of New York, The Departed, and [double-checks the edit history of the Wikipedia page “Golden Globe Award for Best Director”] Hugo? Give it to Tarantino, who has somehow never won before? Reflect the international makeup of the membership by spotlighting Bong? Or shake up the race entirely by rewarding Mendes or, God forbid, Phillips? Tempting scenarios all. In the end I have to go with the win that would send the strongest message — that this is the year of Parasite. Bong it is!

Should win: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Will win: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite

Best Screenplay

Marriage Story
Parasite
The Two Popes
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman

Many pundits feel this would be a natural place to reward Marriage Story, and I can’t entirely disagree. But try as I might, I am also struck by the notion that the Globes won’t let their favorite papal buddy dramedy go home without any gold. Another reason to have faith in The Two Popes? Rewarding the talky Vatican two-hander in Screenplay would be a divine choice for voters who’ve twice given this award to the work of Aaron Sorkin.

Should win: Marriage Story
Will win: The Two Popes

Best Original Song

“Beautiful Ghosts,” Cats
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” Rocketman
“Into the Unknown,” Frozen II
“Spirit,” The Lion King
“Stand Up,” Harriet

I do not even know or care because I hate all of these songs!

Best Motion Picture, Foreign-Language

The Farewell
Les Misérables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The hubbub around the Globes failing to nominate any female directors had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing the two fantastic films directed by women that did get nominated here, The Farewell and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Both are destined to lose to Parasite, but you can’t get too upset because, again, it’s Parasite.

Should win: ParasiteWill win: Parasite

Best Television Series — Drama

Big Little Lies
The Crown
Killing Eve
The Morning Show
Succession

Globe voters are usually attracted to what’s newest and shiniest. The TV drama category last year, where HFPA voters honored The Americans in its final season, proved an exception to that rule. I think this year will be different.

The Crown has won in this category before, and could do so again. But I think the trophy is going to go to Succession for its strong second season, which also happened to be one of the buzziest programs of the past year. The only other scenario I can imagine playing out is one where an even newer series, The Morning Show, wins out. It does have some factors that often work to Globe advantage, most notably a cast stacked with major stars. But I’m sticking with the Logan family.

Should win: Succession

Will win: Succession

Best Television Series — Comedy

Barry
Fleabag
The Kominsky Method
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Politician

No offense to the other contenders, but the Foreign Press will look out of touch if it gives this to anything other than Fleabag, whose second season was, as previously established, perfect.

Should win: Fleabag

Will win: Fleabag

Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Catch-22
Chernobyl
Fosse/Verdon
The Loudest Voice
Unbelievable

I just need to take this moment to say: What is The Loudest Voice even doing here?

Okay, glad I got that out of my system.

This category comes down to Chernobyl and Unbelievable, both of which were exceptional. It’s really hard to choose between the two and I suspect the votes will be very close. But I’m betting Chernobyl ekes out a win; its largely British cast and its sobering exploration of an international crisis should give it an edge with an international group of voters.

Should win: Unbelievable

Will win: Chernobyl

Best Actor in a Television Series — Drama

Brian Cox, Succession
Kit Harington, Game of Thrones
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
Tobias Menzies, The Crown
Billy Porter, Pose

The conventional 2020 Golden Globes wisdom states that this will come down to either Brian Cox or Billy Porter, who won the Emmy in this category last fall. I also wouldn’t totally count out Kit Harington or Tobias Menzies — Malek seems least likely to win here — but if this is indeed a Cox versus Porter showdown, my instinct is telling me Porter will win because he’s having such a moment right now. Also, he’s one of the few people of color nominated in a conspicuously white field this year, and I’m guessing Globe voters won’t want to look less woke than Emmy voters.

Should win: Billy Porter
Will win: Billy Porter

Best Actress in a Television Series — Drama

Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show
Olivia Colman, The Crown
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show

Colman has been nominated for two Golden Globes prior to this year, one for her supporting work in The Night Manager and another for her star turn in The Favourite. She won them both. Clearly the HFPA likes her, which is why I can’t imagine that it won’t give her a third Globe for so skillfully taking over the role of Queen Elizabeth from Claire Foy, who also won a Globe for her portrayal of the royal. That being said, it would be fun to see Jennifer Aniston win for her powerhouse work in The Morning Show.

Should win: Jennifer Aniston
Will win: Olivia Colman

I left several categories off of this because it’s 3:55 CST and I really need to make this live!!!!