2013 Golden Globe Awards outcome

Best Foreign Language Film:
My pick: Blue is the Warmest Color
Golden Globes chose:  The Great Beauty
Both now good candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Picture.

Best Screenplay (unanimous):
Spike Jonze, for his infamous in previous films, finally getting awarded for Her.

Best Picture-Musical or Comedy:
My pick: Her
Golden Globes pick: American Hustle
12 Years a Slave still the favorite
Best Picture-Drama: (unanimous)
12 Years a Slave

Best Director:
My biased 2011 pick: Steve McQueen
Golden Globes pick: Alfonso Cuaron
Both good candidates. The Academy Awards a bit more interesting now.

Best Actor-Drama/Comedy:
My pick: N/A.
Golden Globes pick: Matthew McConaughey probably because he led in Dallas Buyers Club and Mud.

Best Actress-Comedy:
My pick: N/A.
Golden Globes pick: Amy Adams

Best Actress: (unanimous)
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor: (unanimous)
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
My personal choice: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actress:
June Squibb, Nebraska
My personal choice: Lupita Nyong'o: 12 Years a Slave
Golden Globes pick: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle, due to her Academy seniority.
This will be an interesting category indeed when the Academy Award appears.

Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis snubbed in 2013-4 DGA nominations

The nominees for Feature Film were:

• Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
• Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
• Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
• David O. Russell – American Hustle
• Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Captain Phillips is a controversial pick, because of its portrayal of subject matter. 

Gravity's use of dialogue didn't work. 

American Hustle had great performances but cannot be compared to the auteurish work such as the Coen Bros' Llewyn Davis.

12 Years of Slave was done by an auteur but cannot be compared to a Rob Ager-ish project like Inside Llewyn Davis.

The Wolf of Wall Street was pretty darn good....