Will it be Daniel's 'day' at the Globes?
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/ Will Hamer / 11 January 2010 / Leave a comment Bet Now View Market
They are that tough to split, but I’m going to give it a go by doing what many a woman wants, and am going to lay Clooney
Will Hamer is betting against two odds-on favourites at the Golden Globes.
Daniel Day-Lewis can act.
Very well, in fact.
He's won two Oscars and, with a nod in this year's 'Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical', he's up to six nominations at the Golden Globes. Yet, he's only won once, two years ago, for There Will Be Blood.
This year, for the Fellini-inspired Nine, he's currently trading at 1.66 and that is way under.
On Rotten Tomatoes (a popular film review website), the movie is sitting on 38% and has only pulled in a measly $13m at the box office. For awards success you can have low box office and great reviews (see The Reader from last year), but when you have neither, you have no hope. And what usually happens is that if the movie is a stinker, actors - regardless of their performance - will find it incredibly hard to win awards.
And it's hardly as if Day-Lewis is receiving universal praise for his role as a singing, dancing and smoking film director.
Far from it.
The trouble is, this is a wide-open category, and I'd be hesitant to back any of his four fellow nominees. Matt Damon would be deserving for The Informant!, Robert Downey Jr is owed a Globe after being beaten last year by Heath Ledger, and Michael Stuhlbarg is the only nomination from 'awards darlings' the Coen brothers. The roughie of the field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is the star of the movie that may well win 'Best Comedy/Musical'.
For this, laying Day-Lewis is the way to go.
For 'Best Dramatic Actor', grab a coin and flip it. Heads is George Clooney and tails is Jeff Bridges. They are that tough to split, but I'm going to give it a go by doing what many a woman wants, and am going to lay Clooney.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association might love their superstars and Clooney is great in Up in the Air as a suave and charming man chasing 10 million frequent flyer miles, but for me it was just Clooney playing Clooney.
The Globes, like the Academies, owe Bridges an award. He's a three-time Globes nominee and his performance as a washed-up country and western star has him primed to finally take home some silverware.
And laying Clooney will also give you some insurance should the Globes voters go slightly rogue and partly parochial and vote for Brit, Colin Firth, in the critically acclaimed A Single Man.
