My Choice: Titanic
Reason: It's big and it's hear. This is the first step in a direct approach to Best Picture.
My Choice: As Good As It Gets
Reason: The best of a great set of nominees won the award and a awards for its leads.
My Choice: Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
Reason: An honor for a Hollywood Veteran.
My Choice: Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown
Reason: She took the trophy and now leads the race to a Best Actress Oscar.
My Choice: Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets
Reason: He won and made a funny acceptance. He is on his way to a record 11th nomination for the Oscars.
My Choice: Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
Reason: Possibly confused over its comedic status, Pam Grier lost to Helen Hunt, a HFPA darling, in a wave for the film As Good As It Gets marking a trio of awards for the film.
My Choice: Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
Reason: To honor a comeback is often, this is the road to an Oscar as well.
My Choice: Gloria Stuart - Titanic
Reason: All this trophy does is guarantee Basinger a Supporting Actress nod at the Oscars. It was the sole award to L.A. Confidential. What will happen? Look to 1990 when Bruce Davison took home the trophy for Longtime Companion and then Joe Pesci won the Oscar. Or even more recent with Lauren Bacall's loss at the Oscars after her win at the Golden Globes.
My Choice: James Cameron - Titanic
Reason: Along with Picture with this trophy as usual.
My Choice: Good Will Hunting
Reason: As I thought, the Ingenues took home the trophy. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon successfully achieved a place at the Oscars and likely with ones of their own.
My Choice: Titanic
Reason: Titanic went on to be the most honored film of the evening with 4 trophies including this one.
My Choice: My Heart Will Go On - Titanic
Reason: Celine Dion finally won a song its award. After losing last year to Madonna, Celine Dion's vocalization of the love theme from Titanic helped earn the film its fourth trophy.
My Choice: Ma Vie en Rose
Reason: Now to be the front runner for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, luckily it's the one submitted from Belgium
My Choice: The X-Files
Reason: The 3rd trophy from the Golden Globes for X-Files as Best TV Drama. Now if only the Emmys will catch on.
My Choice: Seinfeld
Reason: The HFPA doesn't get swept up in that cancellation thing. They instead go for a new face on the TV front, a show that could very easily be considered a drama and the major surprise of the evening.
My Choice: Kevin Anderson - Nothing Sacred
Reason: Not enough people saw this controversial series. Nor did they get terribly controversial.
My Choice: Gillian Anderson - The X-Files
Reason: Anderson couldn't carry away her 3rd trophy for the show. Lahti must have been surprised, she was in the bathroom when her name was announced creating one of the funniest parts of the evening and in Awards History.
My Choice: John Lithgow - 3rd Rock from the Sun
Reason: Apparently the HFPA is tired of Lithgow and have decided to go with a favorite from its past, Michael J. Fox.
My Choice: Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen
Reason: Steering clear of the controversy, the HFPA went with newcomer Calista Flockhart in another of the more shocking results this evening.
My Choice: Miss Evers' Boys
Reason: In one of the bigger shocks of the evening, George Wallace managed to trump Emmy winner Miss Evers' Boys.
My Choice: Jack Lemmon - 12 Angry Men
Reason: The Best moment of the evening goes to Ving Rhames' acceptance speech. He called Jack Lemmon up to the stage and gave him the trophy.
My Choice: Alfre Woodard - Miss Evers' Boys
Reason: Woodard wins the consolation prize for the film.
My Choice: Noah Wyle - ER
Reason: Rarely do they honor Series in the TV Supporting Categories. This was no exception. They gave the trophy to a deserving performance, but to an actor who never attends awards and has refused 'em too.
My Choice: Della Reese - Touched by an Angel
Reason: This category has become a joke with not even the best performance nominated. It's a wonder no one can predict who will win.
Reason: Quite simply: The GG want to build back some prestige that they've lost, but not too much. Titanic is considered the picture to beat at the Oscars and they'll jump on the bandwagon.
Reason: The Critics darling they can't resist, but this category is filled with some high profile films. If they choose The Full Monty, look for an Oscar nod for the film.
Reason: No powerhouse roles here. Including no nomination for Robert Duvall, so Peter Fonda wins easily over his nearest competitor the ingenue who'll get the Screenplay award.
Reason: This is a very tough category, if Kate Winslet doesn't get on a Titanic juggernaut, I think the foreign press could eat up Dench. But watch out for critic darling Helena Bonham Carter.
Reason: If they choose anyone else, they'll catch hell for the decision for many years to come. (Remember when Jamie Lee Curtis won Comedy/Musical Actress for True Lies???
Reason: Helen Hunt is nominated elsewhere and they may feel that Pam Grier deserves the honor. Watch the two duke it out.
Reason: The biggest box-office draw of the '70s will pick up a career trophy. That is if newcomer Rupert Everett doesn't ride Ellen's train to an award.
Reason: How can they resist this sweet little old lady that brought the film into sharp focus as its narrator?
Reason: With Picture goes this trophy. Who could honor the picture without honoring the man who brought back the true Hollywood Epic?
Reason: Unless Titanic goes for some records, look for the ingenues to win this category.
Reason: Titanic set a record for most nominations ever for the Golden Globes. Could this award help carry it to another record. Not to mention that silly box-office thing.
Reason: It's the only song on the list considered a lock for the Oscar Nominations. It's also the only one nominated that's being broadcast on the radio frequently enough. Don't forget that Titanic-thing.
Reason: The earmarks of a traditional best picture winner...It's in French.
Reason: Why walk down a different path when the one you're on gets you major press recognition for being brazen enough to honor one of the best shows on TV?
Reason: They'll be stupid and fall for the hype while the better shows, like Frasier get the shaft.
Reason: For some odd reason, the HFPA likes to track down controversy, step up to the plate Nothing Sacred. Watch out for Duchovny or Edwards.
Reason: She's now the perennial Golden Globe winner. Now that Angela Lansbury's moved on from Murder, She Wrote, someone must take the reigns.
Reason: Lithgow is a HFPA favorite, two years in a row already, can he beat out Kelsey Grammer for a third?
Reason: If they like controversy(What am I saying??), they'll go for Ellen. Why not? Piss of the Baptists. :)
Reason: It's already won the Emmy, why not a GG. Perhaps they'll be too dazzled to see straight by The Odyssey. Or as impressed as I was with 12 Angry Men.
Reason: Honor a veteran and a brilliant movie at the same time. Watch out for Rhames and that Sinise guy for another Presidential-type guy.
Reason: Alfre can do no harm and if it loses to Odyssey or 12 Angry Men, this is the next best consolation prize. Besides, the rest of her competition is rather weak.
Reason: All you have to do is find a pretty face. Noah Wyle's character is probably the most interesting to watch on ER and one of the few that isn't getting annoying. Will they choose to honor Alexander in his final year at bat? Or will they really, really like 12 Angry Men?
Reason: Who knows what the hell they were thinking. I can see them going out on a limb for Della Reese, but picking Joely Fisher would be their biggest guffaw since honoring Scent of a Woman.
Reaction: Jackie Brown a Comedy? That's where my big mistake was. Also, The Boxer, a surprise, has taken 3 nominations and kicked The Ice Storm out of contention.
Reaction: Jackie Brown was a comedy, but was also not nominated, its potential is gone. Men in Black was insanely popular and not surprising with a nod.
Reaction: Hounsou and Hopkins switched lead and supporting places, although I had them both selected for a nod. Duvall was left out surprisingly and Daniel Day-Lewis riding in on The Boxer, another surprise. Most surprising is that Titanic was so well received including nods for both its leads.
Reaction: Winslet and Lange both major surprises, the latter in a critical panned film and the other a budding young actress with one Oscar nod under her belt.
Reaction: Jim Carrey's surprisingly good Liar Liar beat out favorite of mine John Cusack and Jackie Brown shocked me completely.
Reaction: With Jackie Brown in the running and surprise from early in the year Jennifer Lopez, this is an interesting rounded category.
Reaction: Again, the Hopkins Hounsou thing just put me off, L.A. Confidential's major male performers all canceled each other out to allow Robin Williams and a surpris Jon Voight in.
Reaction: Kim Basinger isn't a surprise, its her comeback of sorts. Gloria Stuart was not expected to be as popular, but rode the wave caused by Titanic to a nomination.
Reaction: Jim Sheridan, the only real surprise here, one of my best categories to have predicted, Anderson's Boogie Nights will be left in the cold come Oscar time.
Reaction: Boogie Nights, again, my only shut out, but not surprisingly Wag the Dog gets the nod.
Reaction: With John Williams' other score for Tibet replacing Amistad, it will reverse come Oscar time. Only Kundun and Titanic weren't surprising, Gattaca and Tibet shocked.
Reaction: As I had figured, At the Beginning, the much touted original song from Anastasia fell flat, as it should have. With two much better songs from the film gaining a toehold. Surprisingly How Do I Live was ignored.
Reaction: Foreign Film is an Odd dog and with France and Germany's nominations not their country's submission, Itally, Russia and Belgium look like the sure victors here.
Reaction: Law & Order rides high on its post-Emmy momentum dislodging perennial favorite Party of Five.
Reaction: Ally McBeal is an hour long, so not technically a comedy, but somehow it got entrenched here. And newcomer Spin City also makes a surprise showing shutting out favorites Ellen and Mad About You.
Reaction: NYPD's cast left in the cold, newcomer, and critically acclaimed, Kevin Anderson pulls a nod along with X-Files' subset Millennium's Lance Henrickson.
Reaction: After Lansbury left this category, Jane Seymour had no hope and found herself kicked out by Kim Delaney and Roma Downey, neither a surprise.
Reaction: Woo Hoo! I got a perfect, last year, my only perfect Oscar shot was film editing. This time, it comes in TV, but I'm not complaining. With no surprises one bit, and a traditional group, Lithgow and Grammer run into the head of the pack again.
Reaction: Ally McBeal's Flockhart and Veronica's Closet's Alley knocked out veterans Drescher and Shepher. The new girls triumphed gaining 3 nominations for Alley (no stranger to comedy), Elfman and Flockhart.
Reaction: I wasn't quite familiar with the newer miniseries and movies for television like George Wallace and Don King, but 12 Angry Men and Miss Evers Boys were far from a surprise.
Reaction: Jack Lemmon being my only correct guess, this is not my best category with plenty of actors from newer films and a different role for Assanti.
Reaction: Again, my least favorite categories because there are too many people out there. No major surprises, however.
Reaction: Only Michael Richards of my picks was not nominated, but in Golden Globe tradition, 6 nominations were handed out as was in Comedy Series and Supporting Actor in a movie. Eriq LaSalle brings in the black element and Michael Caine captures de Klerk.
Reaction: I often think that combing supporting for Series, Movies and Miniseries is rather ridiculous and this proves it. Great performances in both movies and minis and series are left out here and a unoriginal set remain.