2015 Golden Globes Predictions: Who Will Win?

Awards season kicks off with Sunday's Golden Globe Awards. And in between the https://www.tvguide.com/news/golden-globes-drunk-moments-1091557/">, some trophies will be handed out. Will Kevin Spacey finally win his first-ever Globe? Can Boyhood solidify itself as an Oscar front-runner? Check out our predictions below and tell us your picks for the big prizes.

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TELEVISION
Drama Series
Will win: The Affair
The Showtime drama is the kind of shiny new toy the Hollywood Foreign Press Association adores, as evidenced by its three nods, including for its foreign leads. While it hasn't been the breakout hit like, say, Homeland was, it's well received, provocative and prestigious, not unlike Boardwalk Empire, which claimed this honor for its first season four years ago.
Watch out for: House of Cards
Speaking of prestige, House of Cards has that in, um, spades, but if the HFPA wants to spread the wealth like it usually does, it might look elsewhere to reward Netflix (see below).

Comedy/Musical Series
Will win: Orange Is the New Black
There are three freshmen shows in the running (Jane the Virgin, Silicon Valley and Transparent), but Orange still has heat and is sort of new to the Globes since the show did not make the series shortlist when it competed in drama last year. This is also the HFPA's opportunity to be the first awards group to bestow its top prize to a streaming series.
Watch out for: Transparent
Of course, it could do just that by anointing Amazon's moving, intimate dramedy.

Drama Actor
Will win: Clive Owen, The Knick
Owen's brilliantly unhinged surgeon is addictive, he's on a new show and we already know the HFPA likes him: He pulled off a surprise win 10 years ago for Closer.
Watch out for: Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
The two-time Oscar winner has never won a Golden Globe (he's 0-7), and with Bryan Cranston out of the game and no front-runner or true breakout star/new show in the mix, this is the ideal time to finally crown Spacey.

Drama Actress
Will win: Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder
A two-time nominee for film, Davis ought to take home her first Globe for her full-throttled turn on the TGIT hit. Plus: A highly regarded movie star on a hot new show? HFPA bait.
Watch out for: Ruth Wilson, The Affair
Unlike the Emmys and Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Globes aren't into repeat winners, which puts former champs Robin Wright, Julianna Margulies and Claire Danes at a slight disadvantage (Danes, who wasn't nominated last year, is the only person to win this prize more than once in the past 10 years.) Wilson is a first-time nominee in this category, but the Brit is already on the HFPA's radar: She was nominated for the Jane Eyre miniseries seven years ago.

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Comedy/Musical Actor
Will win: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
The HFPA won't pass on the chance to be the first to reward Tambor's lovely standout performance (especially since he's snubbed at the SAGs).
Watch out for: Ricky Gervais, Derek
Can't count out the guy who hosted this thing for three years.

Comedy/Musical Actress
Will win: Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
The charming fresh face fits the HFPA's profile to a T: an ingénue on a new series. (Seven of the last 10 winners in this category won for their first seasons.) A series nod for Jane only reinforces its support, and don't be shocked if it manages to win both, a la Ugly Betty and America Ferrera in 2008.
Watch out for: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
If voters feel they need to play catch-up, prepare for the three-time reigning Emmy champ to win her first Globe for playing Selina Meyer. Of worry though: Veep was snubbed in the series race.

Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
Will win: Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge
The A-listers and miniseries/TV movie actors always have an edge in the Globes' wild supporting races. Murray is also nominated on the film side for St. Vincent, so voters can make sure he doesn't go home empty-handed here.
Watch out for: Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart
The HFPA might want to right his shocking Emmy loss. This would be the best spot for them not only to recognize Bomer's gut-wrenching work, but to honor The Normal Heart for the night.

Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
Will win: Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Aduba has become the awards magnet for Orange, winning an Emmy and scoring a SAG nod in a tough category, and the Globes will want to board the Crazy Eyes train.
Watch out for: Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Freak Show
A two-time Globe champ, Bates is a big-name veteran, which typically bodes well in this category.

FILM

Drama Picture
Will win: Boyhood
The little movie that could over 12 years is not the traditional Globes fare, but they won't be able to deny Richard Linklater's audacious endeavor that packs an emotional wallop like no other.
Watch out for: The Imitation Game
Stylish and slickly edited, the Alan Turing biopic is very much the HFPA's speed and finds a way to make paint-by-numbers thoroughly captivating. Also beware of Selma. The late-breaking civil rights drama is a soul-stirrer.

Comedy/Musical Picture
Will win: Birdman
The biting, sly and awesomely shot showbiz satire should coast to an easy win. Birdman leads the field with seven nominations as well.
Watch out for: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The lush, frenzied comedy managed a director nod for Wes Anderson.

Drama Actor
Will win: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Lead actor is arguably the most competitive race of the Oscar season, but look for Redmayne to sneak out the win. His all-consuming portrayal of Stephen Hawking checks all the right boxes and pulls at all the right heartstrings.
Watch out for: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Battle of the British Geniuses! Cumberbatch's prickly code breaker Alan Turing is complex and nuanced, and since he wasn't nominated for Sherlock, this is the only place voters can award him.

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Drama Actress
Will win: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Poignant and restrained as a woman with early on-set Alzheimer's, Moore should shed her bridesmaid status at last. Despite six previous nods, she has never won a Globe for her film work (she received a special Golden Globe with the Short Cuts cast and won for the HBO movie Game Change). Moore is also nominated in comedy for Maps to the Stars, which begs the question: Will the HFPA award her there so they can award someone else here? A double win is also not impossible - Kate Winslet most recently did it six years ago. Watch out for: Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Ah, the wild card. Aniston, who snagged a Globe for Friends, has hustled and muscled her way into the conversation with her gritty, de-glammed performance. It's the kind of narrative and schmoozing the Globes eat up.

Comedy/Musical Actor
Will win: Michael Keaton, Birdman
With all of his main Oscar rivals over on the drama side, Keaton is a slam dunk here for his soaring meta turn as washed-up actor Riggan Thomson. Besides, the Globes love a good comeback (see: Mickey Rourke's win for The Wrestler).
Watch out for: Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fiennes' Monsieur Gustave H. is nothing short of inspired, kooky elegance.

Comedy/Musical Actress
Will win: Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
Blunt is a Globes darling - she received her first two of five nominations eight years ago for The Devil Wears Prada and the TV movie Gideon's Daughter, the latter of which she won - and this victory would put the "musical" in "Comedy/Musical."
Watch out for: Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Another Globes favorite, Adams is on her sixth nomination and is the defending champ. Fun fact: She'd be the first to win back-to-back trophies in this category in 29 years.

Supporting Actor
Will win: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Lock. Voters will be rushing, not dragging, to coronate Simmons for his sadistic terror of a music teacher. Watch out for: Edward Norton, Birdman
Norton, who won here 18 years ago for his breakthrough debut in Primal Fear, steals the first half of Birdman as hotheaded actor Mike Shiner. If he triumphs, he'd be the fifth person to win this award twice.

Supporting Actress
Will win: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Boyhood is about Mason, but Arquette anchors the film with her heart-rending performance. She has cleaned up the critics awards so far as she trucks along the road to Oscar glory.
Watch out for: Emma Stone, Birdman
Stone, who was nominated for Easy A, is a starlet with a flashy, meaty role that is right up the HFPA's alley. She should and could win it on her killer "relevant" monologue alone.

Who do you think will win?
The Golden Globe Awards airs Sunday at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on NBC.