The ceremony is on January 12, 2014. It will be hosted once again by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Nominations are announced the morning of December 12th.

Thoughts? Predictions?

EDIT:

The nominations are in!

Nominations:

Best Picture (Drama)
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush

Best Picture (Comedy or Musical)
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Her
Nebraska
Philomena

Best Actor (Drama)
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Actor (Comedy or Musical)
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Actress (Drama)
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Actress (Comedy or Musical)
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Original Score
12 Years a Slave
All Is Lost
The Book Thief
Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Best Original Song
"Atlas," The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Coldplay)
"Let It Go," Frozen (Idina Menzel)
"Ordinary Love," Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (U2)
"Please Mr. Kennedy," Inside Llewyn Davis (Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac & Adam Driver)
"Sweeter Than Fiction," One Chance (Taylor Swift)

Best Animated Feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
The Wind Rises

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Woody Allen

American Hustle will go for Drama BTW.

I think I'm a bit more excited to see these than the Oscar nominations simply due to them splitting the comedy/drama categories, allowing more performances to be recognized. Hope this will help someone like Adèle Exarchopoulos, Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, etc...

Predictions:

Best Picture (Drama)
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena

Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
August: Osage County
Before Midnight
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Stephen Frears, Philomena
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor (Drama)
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Actress (Drama)
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Melissa McCarthy, The Heat
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Before Midnight
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Animated Feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
I'm So Excited!
The Past
Wadjda

Is The Wolf of Wall Street really gonna go as Comedy?

What about Best Supporting, David?

Your predictions look pretty solid.

Yes, The Wolf of Wall Street is considered a comedy by the Hollywood Foreign Press. As are Before Midnight and August: Osage County. Blue Jasmine and Philomena are dramas.

Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, Gravity
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Sarah Paulson, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels' The Butler

It is so odd Before Midnight is considered a comedy if Blue Jasmine is a drama. But I'm glad because it makes it much easier for Midnight to get in.

Yes, it is a major gift to Before Midnight. Could easily score three or even four nominations now.

I am curious how Fox Searchlight will categorize James Gandolfini's Enough Said performance this awards season. Here, Best Actor would be to his advantage due to the separate category for lead comic performances. At the Academy Awards, however, I believe it would be easier for him to earn a Best Supporting Actor nomination.

I forgot they also have two music categories, even though they ignore other tech credits (cinematography, editing). For Best Original Score, I will predict:

12 Years a Slave
The Book Thief
Gravity
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Original Song is always a bit of a shit show to predict this far out, but let's go with:

"100$ Bill" - Jay Z (The Great Gatsby)
"For the First Time in Forever" - Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel (Frozen)
"Ordinary Love" - U2 (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
"You and I Ain't Nothin' No More" - Gladys Knight and Lenny Kravitz (Lee Daniels' The Butler)
"Young and Beautiful" - Lana Del Rey (The Great Gatsby)

I'm guessing Christina Aguilera's "We Remain" from Catching Fire or Coldplay's "Atlas" (despite being a crappy song) will be nominated, at least at the Globes.

I do not believe they will go for Coldplay and "Atlas." Aguilera, though, I could see.

Kings of Leon have a song in the race ("Last Mile Home," a country tinged rocker written for August: Osage County), so I am quietly rooting for them.

Not interested since Gervais doesn't host.

Surely the foreign press will nominate Daniel Bruhl as Best Supporting in Rush.

Even though I think it's pretty crazy that Before Midnight is being classified as a 'comedy', I can't help but be glad. It would be great to see the film score multiple nominations, so it can ride some Globe buzz and maybe actually get more people to see the film (and check out the trilogy as a whole).

Peace,
Mike

I agree actually. Though people who watch it expecting a comedy might be disappointed . I'm just annoyed that people watch it not knowing it's the third in a series and not having seen the previous ones. I believe it's very integral to have seen them before seeing the third.

I believe it can play fine without having seen the first two. Not the same, but people can instantly plug into, "This is a long-term couple going through a tense patch" and roll from there.

I have heard of plenty of people not even realizing that it is the third film in a trilogy completely hating it. Sure you will understand it and everything, but without seeing the previous films, it doesn't look like anything else than a husband and wife fight, and many people found it to be annoying. Now I'm obviously not downing the movie by any means, but I can understand where they are coming from. If I didn't see Sunrise and Sunset, I doubt I'd have cared about these characters.

This is like the 'jack of all trades, master of none' awards show.

I did see Sunrise and Sunset and I don't care about these characters.

hehe

Well no accounting for taste.

Yep. I have heard the same reaction from people who saw it as a standalone film. And it's not like it's surprising. Like you said, it's not that you won't be able to follow it, but you simply won't give a damn.

American Hustle will compete as a comedy at the Golden Globes.