Best Motion Picture–Drama: Million Dollar Baby
Although up against some stiff competition, Clint Eastwood‘s sweetly poetic movie about a female boxer and her bond with her trainer ripped our hearts out the most.
Best Director–Motion Picture: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Same goes for Eastwood‘s expert direction, as well as his own delicate performance in the film, giving him the edge over the competition.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
While Hilary Swank‘s Million Dollar performance as ‘s tough-as-nails boxer could win, we think Staunton‘s stalwart portrayal of a back street abortionist in 1950s England is the one to bank on.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture: Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
In another tough category to choose a winner, we finally zeroed in on Cheadle‘s tour-de-force performance as a hotel owner who saved many lives during Rwanda’s bloodiest civil war.
Best Motion Picture–Musical or Comedy: Sideways
Alexander Payne‘s wine-soaked slice of life about two best friends knee deep in mid-life crisis, having high adventures together in California’s wine country, is the film everyone is talking about–and so are we. A shoo-in.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture–Musical or Comedy: Annette Bening, Being Julia
Bening just plain deserves it for nailing Julia, a 40-something diva actress extraordinaire who takes delicious revenge against her wayward young lover.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture–Musical or Comedy: Jamie Foxx, Ray
Foxx‘s uncanny portrayal of the late R&B singer Ray Charles is about the surest bet of the evening.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Laura Linney, Kinsey
It was a choice between Virginia Madsen‘s wounded waitress in Sideways and Linney‘s long-suffering wife married to a sex researcher in Kinsey, but we choose Linney, just by a hair.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Clive Owen, Closer
For the year’s most guttural and raw performance as a jilted husband in the dark Closer, we hand the honors to Mr. Owen.
Best Television Series–Drama: The Sopranos
Although we’d really like to see the award given to the weird and wild Lost, The Sopranos, which finally won an Emmy last September, seems the wiser choice.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series–Drama: Joely Richardson, Nip/Tuck
More than a little bored with The Sopranos‘ Edie Falco always winning, we decided to go out on a limb and pick Richardson‘s complex turn as the accomplished wife of a plastic surgeon. So there.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series–Drama: James Spader, Boston Legal
Spader surprised more than a few when he won the Emmy last year but anyone whose seen his wonderful performance as the acerbic, morally challenged lawyer in Boston knows he deserves all the accolades he can get.
Best Television Series–Musical or Comedy: Arrested Development
Speaking of surprises…after last year’s surprise Globe win by the hilarious and quirky BBC show The Office, we feel the equally hilarious, quirky and Emmy-winning Development will follow suit.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series–Musical or Comedy: Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives
With three of the five Globe nominations going to the actresses portraying Housewives on Wisteria Lane, Cross is the standout, playing a housewife who is a cross (pun intended) between Donna Reed and Cruella DeVil.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series–Musical or Comedy: Zach Braff, Scrubs
Another odd choice, we admit it, but Braff as Scrubs‘ non-conforming doc is just too deliciously funny to pass up.
Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television: The Life and Death of Peter Sellars
In a category full of weighty dramas, HBO’s biopic about the eccentric Peter Sellars, played brilliantly by Geoffrey Rush, stands out as a breath of fresh air.
