By Nathaniel R (and guests)
Okay last Globe conversation frenzy for a bit with SAG nominations happening tomorrow. We'll save a few truly silly questions about the Globes until the Golden Globe week hits but for now the rest of our informal polling of friends and TFE contributors now that you've read the Big Sick / All the Money / Snubs responses (you read that, right?). Join the conversation in the comments won't you?
Five questions and special guests answering them after the jump starting with this one. What's the "surprise" you don't think is surprising at all?
Dancin Dan: Aaron Sorkin for Best Screenplay. Every single one of his screenplays has been nominated for a Globe (except for his first, Malice), and The West Wing was a perennial Best Drama Series nominee. The HFPA loves him, and Molly's Game is a crowdpleaser.
Glenn Dunks: The best director category. Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, Dee Rees, Luca Guadagnino, Sean Baker were always going to be names that had to fight harder than the rest for nominations and these nominations just confirmed that. Never underestimate the ability of awards organisations to nominate a line-up of five white straight men even when presented with a bounty of other options.
Ilich Mejia: Angelina Jolie's film getting in over France's Beats per Minute. If she could sneak The Tourist into consideration, imagine what she can do when she's attached to a project that's actually redeemable.
Jorge Molina: The Greatest Showman love. I think because the word "Musical" is on one of the categories, they always feel compelled to nominate anything that resembles one (they nominated Burlesque, Mamma Mia! and even Sing Street last year).
Katey Rich: The Lady Bird snub in Director. The Globes like big, glitzy things, not small and earnest!
Guy Lodge: Christopher Plummer's nomination — come on, their voters decided to do this before they even saw the movie (if they even did?)
Nick Davis: "Golden Globe nominee Mariah Carey," because it was historically and artistically inevitable, and as perfectly in sync with her brand as with theirs
What's the Best Song nominee we're most likely to catch you singing along to?
Nick Davis: As if this is even a question. "What color is the sky?" Blue. Well, kind of. "Which song are you mo--" MARIAH'S!
Katey Rich: ""The Star" because my son is obsessed with the BFCA mailer we got for it that auto-plays the song when you open it like a Hallmark card.
Jazz Tangcay: "This is Me" - I already know the lyrics and I'm overplaying it on Spotify!
Ilich Mejia: Hear me belting Coco's "Remember Me" from another room because I don't want people seeing how badly my eyes swell as I cry hysterically.
Chris Feil: The Coco soundtrack has umpteen versions of "Remember Me" and I adore each one. FYC Carlos Rivera's "Recuérdame" as the definitive version
Seán McGovern: I'll tell you what I'm not humming, Prayers For This World which I thought would be a shoo(p)-in for Cher. The Globes love Cher and it was written by Diane Warren! Maximum two divas per category and Mary and Mariah got those slots.
Movie you're annoyed you'll have to see now because you're a completist?
Jazz Tangcay: All The Money in the World
Salim Garami:Molly's Game. I think I'm Sorkin-ed out for a while.
Lynn Lee: Do I really have to see Victoria & Abdul? It falls in the category of "movies your mom probably wants to see but you don't."
Nick Davis: Downsizing, which I probably would have seen anyway, but this still feels like a cheap trick. They kind of spotted me one on Stronger, but when Miranda Richardson goes Full Boozehound, you show up at the goddamn Redbox.
Kim Rogers: I tend to be a completist ONLY when it comes the Oscars. Thank God.
Jorge Molina: I still have to see so many movies that I actually want to see before I can complain about seeing the ones I don't want to. Lady Bird, I,Tonya, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards, The Disaster Artist, Battle of the Sexes, and The Post have not been released in Mexico yet.
What's the nomination you found most baffling?
Jorge Molina: I refuse to believe The Leisure Seeker is a real movie that exists and was made and is now Golden-Globe nominated.
Ben Miller: 13 Reasons Why Not to Nominate Anyone Involved in This Weird Show's Depiction of Suicide.
Dancin Dan: Martin McDonagh in Best Director for Three Billboards... If there's a place to reward him for that film, surely it's the juicy (if slightly problematic) writing, and not the rather flavorless direction?
Nomination that most thrilled you?
Ilich Mejia: "A Fantastic Woman" reflects relevant issues with great humanity and, like all great films in the Foreign Language Film category do, alleviate American myopia reminding us that people all over the world struggle with finding themselves in a society that rejects their way of life.
Guy Lodge: Jonny Greenwood's vastly deserved nomination for Phantom Thread, which I'd hoped would do better this morning.
Glenn Dunks: Hong Chau. I haven’t seen Downsizing, but it is a delight to see an Asian performer – and one who isn’t well known, either – sneak in ahead of much buzzier, more heavily-awarded names. That entire supporting line-up is in fact a tantalising glimpse at some quasi-Utopian industry future of equality.
Katey Rich: The love for GLOW, such a delightful Netflix series.
Kim Rogers: David Harbour for Stranger Things!!!
Seán McGovern: Seeing Saoirse Ronan get nominated for anything makes my heart sing. Everything about her as an actor and a person is disarming. Even though Greta Gerwig was shut out, you know that Saoirse has her director's back all the way. I want to be her friend.
YOUR TURN DEAR READER. How would you answer these five questions?