Heres Who Will Win at the 2018 Golden Globes
The 2018 Golden Globes will air on Sunday, Jan. 8 at 8 p.m. ET. Hosted by Seth Meyers, the 75th annual ceremony will kick off the year's awards season in earnest, awarding 2017's best performances in film and television. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which doles out Golden Globes, always seems to have a few surprises up its sleeves, and this year will undoubtedly be no exception. Here are our predictions for who will take home trophies on Sunday night. Dunkirk  The Post  The Shape of Water  Call Me by Your Name  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, This year is one of the most wide-open awards seasons in recent memory, and there's no clear frontrunner in the Best Picture race. Steven Spielberg's The Post received a near-unanimous endorsement when it screened for critics, but Guillermo del Toro's whimsical monster-fish romance, which leads the Globes with seven nominations, has the edge with an awards body that's trended indie in recent years see Moonlight, Boyhood. Review Call Me By Your Name and The Shape of Water Fearlessly Display Love, The Disaster Artist  Get Out  The Greatest Showman  I, Tonya  Lady Bird, Despite the fact that Get Out continues to be talked about nearly a year after its release and notwithstanding the fact that it's not actually a comedy, Lady Birds momentum feels unstoppable at this point. Still in theaters after a November release, it won a bevy of critics' association awards in December and its honest, heartfelt story of a mother-daughter relationship continues to win over moviegoers. Review Lady Bird Captures the Joy and Pain of Coming of Age in the Suburbs, Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game  Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water  Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri  Meryl Streep, The Post  Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World, The Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's bestselling dystopian novel swept the Emmys with wins for the show, its star Elisabeth Moss, supporting actor Ann Dowd and writer Bruce Miller. Though Netflix's Queen Elizabeth series The Crown won top honors at the Globes last year and remains a critical darling, the MeToo moment will help power The Handmaid's Tale to a victory this year. Interview Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss Discuss The Handmaid's Tale, Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel may have been conceived long before Hollywood's current reckoning with sexual harassment, but it still feels timely. The titular hero, a 1950s housewife, decides to pursue a career as a comedian. It stands out both as a hilarious show and a prescient commentary on the long history of sexism in the comedy world. Plus, the HFPA has a history of awarding freshman comedies like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Atlanta. Read More The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is a Retro Heroine for Modern Times, Caitriona Balfe, Outlander  Claire Foy, The Crown  Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce  Katherine Langford, 13 Reasons Why  Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale, Fans and critics latched onto Elisabeth Moss' quiet resilience as an enslaved woman in The Handmaid's Tale. Her eyes communicated the fear and anger that many women felt in the months following the 2016 presidential election and the subsequent Women's march. The show was good, but Moss made Handmaid's Tale the phenomenon it is. Moss earned a number of Golden Globe nominations during her Mad Men years, but never took home the trophy. This year she will. Interview Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss on the Urgency of The Handmaid's Tale, Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us  Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor  Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul  Live Schreiber, Ray Donovan  Jason Bateman, Ozark, Sterling K. Brown is a sure bet on Sunday night. He's the best thing on the phenomenon that is This Is Us and deserves the recognition. The HFPA overlooked him last year when he was nominated for The People v. O.J. Simpson, and the Emmys cut off his microphone before he could finish his acceptance speech last fall. Expect his victory to be a tweetable moment. Review This Is Us Knows Exactly What It Is and Who It's For, Pamela Adlon, Better Things  Alison Brie, GLOW  Issa Rae, Insecure  Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel  Frankie Shaw, SMIL, If there is any justice in this world, the Golden Globes will make up for the fact that Insecure was not nominated for Best Comedy by rewarding writer-actor Issa Rae in the Best Actress category. The HBO series remains one of the smartest things on television and Rae has become an even stronger actor in its second season. Review Issa Rae's Insecure Is the Sharpest Comedy of the Year, Anthony Anderson, Black-ish  Aziz Ansari, Master of None  Kevin Bacon, I Love Dick  William H. Macy, Shameless  Eric McCormack, Will and Grace, If he was ever going to win this category, Aziz Ansari probably should have taken home the trophy in 2016. This season, the standout episodes of Master of None focused on other actors, like the Denise-centric Thanksgiving episode or "New York, I Love You." Nonetheless, Ansari will win in this category for breaking new creative ground on his show. Review Master of None Knows Exactly What It's Doing, Big Little Lies  Fargo  Feud  The Sinner  Top of the Lake China Girl, This year's television presaged the MeToo moment. Three of the shows in this category grapple with toxic masculinity Top of the Lake explores the murder of a prostitute, Feud the way in which Hollywood pits women against one another and Big Little Lies domestic violence. But it was Big Little Lies, aided by a powerful performance from Nicole Kidman, that deserves the award. It could have just been a beautifully shot Desperate Housewives. Instead, the show evolved into a thoughtful meditation on female friendship and issues like domestic violence. Review Big Little Lies Was Never Just About a Murder. The Finale Proved That, Jessica Biel, The Sinner  Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies  Jessica Lange, Feud Bette and Joan  Susan Sarandon, Feud Bette and Joan  Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies, The HFPA loves Nicole Kidman she nabbed Globes for To Die For, Moulin Rouge! and The Hours, and critics loved Big Little Lies. Though this category is the most star-studded of any at the Globes Sunday night, Kidman  who also won at the Emmys  has this award on lock. Interview Nicole Kidman on the Triumph of Women in the Big Little Lies Finale, Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies  Jude Law, The Young Pope  Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks  Ewan McGregor, Fargo  Geoffrey Rush, Genius, Both Ann Dowd and Laura Dern won Emmys for their respective roles last fall. But Dern's recent turn in the latest Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, reminded Hollywood just how much they love the veteran actress. This is Dern's trophy to lose. Alfred Molina, Feud  Alexander Skarsgrd, Big Little Lies  David Thewlis, Fargo  David Harbour, Stranger Things  Christian Slater, Mr. Robot, Big Little Lies will not be stopped, and neither will the Skarsgrd clan. This particular Skarsgrd stood toe-to-toe with Nicole Kidman for some brutal scenes, which will earn him a Globe to place on his mantel next to the Emmy he won for the same role.