Awards Season Kicks into High Gear with Golden Globes

Awards Season Kicks into high gear on Sunday at the golden Globes. According to news agency Catholic Church and Leonardo Dicaprio touted as likely winners. This year, Show promises not to disappoint as British comedian Ricky Gervais return to dish out his biting jokes. Sparing none of the star guzzling champagne  at the Gala.
Pundits said that while predictions indicate that “Spotlight” A movie about the Boston Globe journalists who uncovered sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, will win for best drama ‘the race’ was really up in the air. Timothy Gray Awards editor for trade magazine said “I thing Spotlight is going to win partly because it s a celebration of journalism and there is some 90 journalists who are voting on this”. “But I wouldn’t bet my money on it because there are other possibilities,” he said. “This year there is genuine suspense” he also added. Other films vying for top honors include Carol, The Revenant, Room and Mad Max.
DiCaprio appears well ahead in the race for best actor performance as fur trapper Hugh Glass in “The Revenant”. Critics are widely predicting the 41-year-old actor will take home his first Oscar for the role.
Founder of awards tracker GoldDerby.com, Tom O Neil said “All 17 Gold Derby experts have him unanimously out front to win”. Also nominated for best actor in a drama is Bryan Cranston as a blacklisted 1940s screenwriter in Trumbo, The Danish Girl, and Will Smith for the hard-hitting sports drama Concussion. For best actress in a drama the nominees are Blanchet and her co-star Rooney Mara in “Carol” Brie Larson for “Room” and Alicia Vikander who plays alongside Redmayne in “The Danish Girl”.