Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Golden Globe Nominees: Best Actress in a TV Series – Drama

My predictions: 5/5
Who’s missing: Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters), Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU), Holly Hunter (Saving Grace), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

This was the first category announced, and so I was especially thrilled to get a perfect score (I also got all five nominees in the Best Animated Feature race!). This category makes me especially happy because it dismisses past nominee Sally Field and recognizes once again the lovely January Jones (Mad Men) and Anna Paquin (True Blood). It’s clear that the Globes like Jones, and everyone else like costar Elisabeth Moss. While I don’t love Julianna Marguiles (The Good Wife) on her show, I’ll admit that Glenn Close (Damages) did win me over a bit more this year on her series than for the first season when she was lavished with awards. And, of course, I’m delighted to see that Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) continues to be recognized, since I’m still watching and greatly enjoying her performance and the show. One important note: “Damages,” despite earning three acting nominations, was not welcomed back into the Best Drama Series category this year.

Who could win? I’ll go with Marguiles, though Close could easily repeat.

3 comments:

Scout said...

I hope you're wrong about predicted winner, but it's very likely that it'll be either Margulies or Close. I still keep my fingers crossed for January Jones for finally being recognized for her brilliant and underrated (by awards) performance on "Mad Men".

Movies with Abe said...

Those are my predictions for what will actually happen - my preference is that anyone but those will win :)

Samuel Wright said...

sadly, I've hardly seen any of the movies from the nominee list - hopefully I'll get to watch more of them before the awards night comes around