Who'll win? Who'll be there? When does it start? Everything you need to know about the 2019 Golden Globe Awards
Aquaman may have dominated the holiday moviegoing conversation, but now that the calendar has turned to January, awards season is in full effect. And the nearly nonstop parade of red carpets, statues and acceptance speeches officially begins on Sunday night with the 76th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in movies and television as chosen by the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The dynamic duo of Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh are hosting this year’s ceremony, which starts at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC. Here’s your cheat sheet to Hollywood’s biggest party … and the launch of every movie lover’s favorite time of year. —by Ethan Alter, Kevin Polowy and Gwynne Watkins
When to watch
NBC’s official Golden Globes preshow starts at 7 p.m. ET, but E! will set up shop on the red carpet well before that. Network personalities Nina Parker, Kristin Cavallari, Jeannie Mai, Brad Goreski, Kristin Dos Santos and Zanna Roberts Rassi will anchor the Countdown to the Red Carpet that begins at 4 p.m. ET. Then, at 6 p.m. ET, Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic take over for the Live From the Red Carpet special, which runs until the ceremony begins at NBC at 8 p.m. ET. After the awards, Busy Philipps will break down all the big moments on a special edition of her late-night series, Busy Tonight Live, airing at 11 p.m. ET.
For those who have cut the cord, the press association has partnered with Facebook to live-stream a red-carpet arrivals show hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown, AJ Gibson, Rasha Goel, Ben Lyons, Missi Pyle and Francia Raisa. That show starts streaming at 6 p.m. ET on Facebook here.
What’s going to win
Yahoo Entertainment made our instant predictions for this year’s class of winners when nominations were announced in early December. Here are our updated picks in every category.
Movies
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Our prediction: A Star Is Born
Dark horse: Black Panther
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Our prediction: The Favourite
Don’t be surprised by: Green Book or Vice
Best Director
Our prediction: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Don’t be surprised by: Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Best Actress, Drama
Our prediction: Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Dark horse: Glenn Close, The Wife
Best Actor, Drama
Our prediction: Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Don’t be surprised by: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy
Our prediction: Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
Don’t be surprised by: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
Our prediction: Christian Bale, Vice
Don’t be surprised by: Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Best Supporting Actress
Our prediction: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Don’t be surprised by: Amy Adams, Vice
Best Supporting Actor
Our prediction: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Don’t be surprised by: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Dark horse: Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
Best Screenplay
Our prediction: The Favourite
Don’t be surprised by: Green Book or Vice
Best Animated Film
Our prediction: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Don’t be surprised by: Isle of Dogs
Best Foreign Film
Our prediction: Roma
Dark horse: Capernaum
Best Film Score
Our prediction: First Man
Don’t be surprised by: Mary Poppins Returns
Best Film Song
Our prediction: “Shallow,” A Star Is Born
Don’t be surprised by: “Shallow” again
Dark horse: Also “Shallow”
Television
Best Television Series, Drama
Our prediction: Homecoming
Don’t be surprised by: Killing Eve
Dark horse: The Americans
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Our prediction: Barry
Don’t be surprised by: The Kominsky Method
Dark horse: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Our prediction: Escape at Dannemora
Don’t be surprised by: Sharp Objects
Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Our prediction: Julia Roberts, Homecoming
Don’t be surprised by: Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Our prediction: Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Dark horse: Kristen Bell, The Good Place
Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Our prediction: Billy Porter, Pose
Dark horse: Richard Madden, Bodyguard
Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Our prediction: Bill Hader, Barry
Don’t be surprised by: Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Dark horse: Sacha Baron Cohen, Who Is America?
Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Our prediction: Patricia Arquette, Escape at Dannemora
Don’t be surprised by: Amy Adams, Sharp Objects
Dark horse: Laura Dern, The Tale
Best Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Our prediction: Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Don’t be surprised by: Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal
Best Supporting Actress
Our prediction: Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects
Don’t be surprised by: Penélope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Dark horse: Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Supporting Actor
Our prediction: Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
Don’t be surprised by: Edgar Ramírez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Dark horse: Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal
Special awards
The Cecil B. DeMille Award
Named for the groundbreaking director of epics like The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. deMille Award has been bestowed annually since 1952 (well, almost annually — the Globes skipped it in 1976 and 2008). The award honors “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” DeMille was the first recipient. Walt Disney was the next, in 1953. Judy Garland is the youngest recipient in history (she won in 1962 at age 39) and the first woman to receive the award. The oldest recipient was producer Samuel Goldwyn (1973 at age 93). The first black recipient was Sidney Poitier in 1982. Of the 66 times the award has been presented, 15 honorees are women and 51 are men. It appears that only four (Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and last year’s recipient, Oprah Winfrey) are people of color.
This year’s recipient is 69-year-old Jeff Bridges, a Golden Globe winner for Crazy Heart in 2010 (the role for which he also won his Oscar) and a nominee for five more films: Starman (1985), The Fisher King (1992), Hidden in America (a TV movie, 1997), The Contender (2001) and Hell or High Water (2017). He was not nominated for his fan-favorite role in The Big Lebowski (1998).
The Carol Burnett Award
This is the inaugural year of the Carol Burnett Award, honoring “the highest level of achievement” in television. Appropriately, 85-year-old Burnett, a five-time Golden Globe winner and the “most decorated of all time in the television category,” will be the first recipient. This is a television-specific counterpart to the DeMille Award, which historically has been given to film stars and filmmakers, although some major TV stars have been honored, including Lucille Ball and Oprah Winfrey. This isn’t Burnett’s first lifetime achievement award. She’s also the recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the TCA Lifetime Achievement Award, a Kennedy Center Honoree, a Special Tony Award and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
What they’ll be taking home
This year’s winners will be the first to receive a newly redesigned Globe statue, created by R/GA. (See the picture above.) The big innovation in this makeover is that each 24-carat gold-plated award can be personalized to the person who takes it home, with the space to include their name, the category they were nominated in and the year. This version is also a little bit bigger and heavier than its predecessor, measuring in at 11.5 inches tall, a base width of 3.75 inches and an overall weight of 7.8 pounds. A marble version of this design will be used for the Cecil B. deMille Award and Carol Burnett Award.
Who’s presenting?
Because the Golden Globes are the first awards show on the calendar, Hollywood’s A-listers aren’t yet worn out from multiple dinners, ceremonies and special luncheons. That means they’re also ready and willing to hand out statues to their colleagues … even when they’re not nominated themselves. Here are some of the stars you can expect to see on the stage on Sunday night: Antonio Banderas, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Emily Blunt, Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K. Brown, Steve Carell, Jessica Chastain, Olivia Colman, Bradley Cooper, Kaley Cuoco, Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Driver, Dick Van Dyke, Taron Egerton, Idris Elba, Harrison Ford, Lady Gaga, Johnny Galecki, Richard Gere, Danai Gurira, Justin Hartley, Taraji P. Henson, Felicity Huffman, Allison Janney, Michael B. Jordan, Nicole Kidman, Lucy Liu, William H. Macy, Chrissy Metz, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Lupita Nyong’o, Gary Oldman, Jim Parsons, Chris Pine, Amy Poehler, Gina Rodriguez, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Maya Rudolph, Octavia Spencer, Ben Stiller, Lena Waithe, John David Washington, Rachel Weisz and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
By the numbers
For those serious scorekeepers out there, here’s the press association’s official breakdown of how the Globe nominations were distributed.
Nominations by motion picture
Vice: 6
The Favourite: 5
Green Book: 5
A Star Is Born: 5
BlacKkKlansman: 4
Mary Poppins Returns: 4
Black Panther: 3
If Beale Street Could Talk: 3
Roma: 3
Bohemian Rhapsody: 2
Boy Erased: 2
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: 2
Crazy Rich Asians: 2
First Man: 2
Isle of Dogs: 2
A Private War: 2
At Eternity’s Gate: 1
Beautiful Boy: 1
Capernaum: 1
Destroyer: 1
Dumplin’: 1
Eighth Grade: 1
Girl: 1
Incredibles 2: 1
Mirai: 1
Never Look Away: 1
The Old Man & the Gun: 1
A Quiet Place: 1
Ralph Breaks the Internet: 1
Shoplifters: 1
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 1
Stan & Ollie: 1
Tully: 1
The Wife: 1
Nominations by television series
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story: 4
The Americans: 3
Barry: 3
Homecoming: 3
The Kominsky Method: 3
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: 3
Sharp Objects: 3
A Very English Scandal: 3
The Alienist: 2
Bodyguard: 2
Escape at Dannemora: 2
The Good Place: 2
The Handmaid’s Tale: 2
Kidding: 2
Killing Eve: 2
Pose: 2
Atlanta: 1
Dirty John: 1
Genius: Picasso: 1
Glow: 1
Murphy Brown: 1
Outlander: 1
Ozark: 1
Patrick Melrose: 1
Seven Seconds: 1
Succession: 1
The Tale: 1
Westworld: 1
Who Is America?: 1
Will & Grace: 1
Nominations by television network
FX Networks: 10
HBO: 9
Prime Video: 9
Netflix: 8
Showtime: 6
NBC: 3
BBC America: 2
Hulu: 2
TNT: 2
Bravo: 1
CBS: 1
National Geographic: 1
Starz: 1
Things to look for
*During film festival season, A Star Is Born was widely seen as the frontrunner to beat. The Golden Globes will be the first sign whether those early predictions were correct … or if a new Favourite might emerge.
*The Globes has struggled with the diversity of its nominees in the past, but made some significant strides in that department this year. Wins by Rami Malek, Billy Porter, Regina King or Spike Lee — who don’t have a Golden Globe on their awards shelves — would demonstrate how committed the press association is to changing the complexion of its ceremony.
*Adam McKay’s political satire Vice has the most nominations of any other film in contention, and any wins may be seen as the press association’s subtle commentary on the state of things in the nation’s capital. At the same time, we’re also expecting several celebrities to make some overt political commentary, like, you know, this guy.
The 76th Golden Globe Awards airs Sunday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC.
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