Golden Globes - 2007 Best Director, etc.

Is This Marty’s Year?

Okay, so these aren’t like the Oscars that have best cinematography, editing, special effects, etc. There are basically four categories and here are the two important ones. I was going to talk about best music but I decided that I don’t really care.

Let’s start with Best Director.
Martin Scorsese - The Departed - Everyone thinks that Martin Scorsese is a shoo-in for a best director Oscar but his chances will increase (or decrease?) if he gets a Globe win. Let’s face it, if he wins it’ll be because they are rewarding a body of work instead on individual film accomplishments. Much like Peter Jackson was rewarded for the whole Rings trilogy. Scorsese’s daughter mentioned that he will not be attending the Oscars this year, I wonder if that will hold true for the Globes as well?
Clint Eastwood - “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “Flags of Our Fathers” - Eastwood shot himself in the foot because the companion piece to “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “Flags of Our Fathers” was not well received by critics or film goers.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel - So Inarritu’s “Babel” might just be this years “Crash”. It’s certainly far and away the best movie out of the nominees and it deserves to win.
Stephen Frears - The Queen - Frears is a sentimental favorite, mostly because he’s a lovable Englishman. This film is the long shot.

Best Screenplay
Well at least Marty isn’t up against Clint in this category, but wait . . . he’s up against Babel. Too bad Marty. A remake from a foreign film with a story we’ve seen a thousand times is not going to cut it against Babel.

So here is the wrap up. Babel looks to score the most wins and hopefully it could ride the momentum into Oscar gold on March 5th.

Check back on January 16th to see how correct I was.
Let’s hope the Oscar warmups don’t disappoint!