The Oscar Narrative: First Golden Globe Predictions - General Categories

Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Bruhl "Rush"
Bradley Cooper "American Hustle"
Michael Fassbender "12 Years a Slave"
Tom Hanks "Saving Mr. Banks"
Jared Leto "Dallas Buyers Club"

Other Contenders - John Goodman "Inside Llewyn Davis", Jake Gyllenhaal "Prisoners", Barkhad Abdi "Captain Phillips", Matthew McConaughey "Mud", Matthew McConaughey "The Wolf of Wall Street", Jeremy Renner "American Hustle", Chris Cooper "August: Osage County", Ewan McGregor "August: Osage County", Benedict Cumberbatch "August: Osage County", Terrence Howard "Prisoners", David Oyelowo "Lee Daniel's The Butler", Cuba Gooding Jr. "Lee Daniel's The Butler", Josh Brolin "Labor Day", Geoffrey Rush "The Book Thief", Will Forte "Nebraska", George Clooney "Gravity", Javier Bardem "The Counselor", Jean Dujardin "The Monuments Men", Bill Murray "The Monuments Men", John Goodman "The Monuments Men", Andrew Dice Clay "Blue Jasmine"

Best Supporting Actress
Saly Hawkins "Blue Jasmine"
Jennifer Lawrence "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o "12 Years a Slave"
Julia Roberts "August: Osage County"
Oprah Winfrey "Lee Daniel's The Butler"

Other Contenders - June Squibb "Nebraska", Octavia Spencer "Fruitvale Station", Catherine Keener "Captain Phillips", Cate Blanchett "The Monuments Men", Cameron Diaz "The Counselor", Emily Watson "The Book Thief", Amy Adams "Her", Viola Davis "Prisoners", Maria Bello "Prisoners", Melissa Leo "Prisoners", Juliette Lewis "August: Osage County", Rooney Mara "Her", Kristen Wiig "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", Naomie Harris "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom", Zoe Saldana "Out of the Furnace", Alfre Woodard "12 Years a Slave", Sarah Paulson "12 Years a Slave", Jennifer Garner "Dallas Buyers Club

Best Director
David O. Russell "American Hustle"
Woody Allen "Blue Jasmine"
Steve McQueen "12 Years a Slave"
Alfonso Cuaron "Gravity"
Alexander Payne "Nebraska"

Other Contenders - George Clooney "The Monuments Men", Paul Greengrass "Captain Phillips", John Wells "August: Osage County", Lee Daniel's "Lee Daniel's The Butler", Martin Scorsese "The Wolf of Wall Street", Joel and Ethan Coen "Inside Llewyn Davis", Stephen Frears "Philomena", Ben Stiller "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", Ryan Coogler "Fruitvale Station", Ron Howard "Rush", Jason Reitman "Labor Day", Paul Feig "The Heat", Richard Linklater "Before Midnight", Peter Jackson "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", Brian Percival "The Book Thief"

Best Screenplay
John Ridley "12 Years a Slave"
David O. Russell and David Singer "American Hustle"
Woody Allen "Blue Jasmine"
George Clooney and Grant Heslov "The Monuments Men"
Bob Nelson "Nebraska"

Other Contenders - Captain Phillips, August: Osage County, Lee Daniel's The Butler, The Wolf of Wall Street, Before Midnight, Inside Llewyn Davis, Philomena, Fruitvale Station, Rush, Labor Day, The Book Thief, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue is the Warmest Color (France)
Gabrielle (Canada)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Past (Iran)
Wadjda (Saudi Arabia)

Best Animated Feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Epic
Frozen
Monster's University

Best Original Score
Hans Zimmer "12 Years a Slave"
John Williams "The Book Thief"
Steven Price "Gravity"
Alexandre Desplat "The Monuments Men"
Thomas Newman "Saving Mr. Banks"

Best Original Song
Not Sure Yet, this race is always a crap shoot until we find out which songs are actually in play.