BWW Exclusive: What to Watch Before the 2018 GOLDEN GLOBES!

The Award Season is upon us and next up is the 2018 GOLDEN GLOBES , set to air January 7th, 2018 on NBC. Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers) will be hosting the 75th annual ceremony. The nominations were recently announced and the list full of impressive choices. (See the complete list of 2018 Golden Globe nominations here: https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/2018/all)

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is leading the film nominations with seven, followed closely by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) and The Post (Steven Spielberg) with six nominations each. Standouts among the T.V. series nominations include Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, HBO's limited series Big Little Lies, and Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Before watching Golden Globes, you might want to catch up on a few of the nominations to be more informed when filling out your prediction sheet. Because you know you want to be the friend at THE WATCH party who has the most accurate predictions. So I created a list of some of films to watch (or rewatch) and T.V. shows to binge in order to better prepare for the upcoming ceremony.

Best Motion Picture-Drama

The Shape of Water

-In a 1960s research facility, a mute janitor forms a relationship with an aquatic creature.

-Dir. Guillermo del Toro

-Starring: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

-A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

-Dir. Martin McDonagh

-Starring: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Peter Dinklage, John Hawkes

Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy

Get Out

-It's time for a young African American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.

-Dir. Jordan Peele

-Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford

I, Tonya

-Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. FIGURE SKATING Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into DOUBT when her ex-husband intervenes.

-Dir. Craig Gillespie

-Starring: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Alison Janney

Best Television Series-Drama

The Handmaid's Tale

-Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

-Available on: Hulu

-Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Ann Dowd, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel, Max Minghella

This is Us

-Follows a unique ensemble, as their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, from sharing the same birthday, to so much more than anyone would expect.

-Network: NBC

-Starring: Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Elizabeth Perkins, Alan Thicke, Katey Sagal, Susan Blakely, Sylvester Stallone, Marla Gibbs

Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

-A housewife in the 1950s decides to become a stand-up comic.

-Available on: Amazon Prime

-Starring: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Zegen, Jane Lynch

Black-ish

-A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

-Network: ABC

-Starring: Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Beau Bridges

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Big Little Lies

-The apparently perfect lives of three mothers of first graders unravel to the point of murder.

-Available on: HBO

-Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Alexander Skarsgård, Laura Dern, Adam Scott, Zoë Kravitz

Top of the Lake: China Girl

-Obsessed with the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl near a freezing lake in New Zealand, a brave detective will find herself up against small-town SECRETS and a side of herself that was meticulously kept at bay.

-Available on: SundanceTV

-Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Nicole Kidman