2016 Golden Globe WINNER Predictions (Television)

Erik Anderson January 7, 2016

The television side of the Golden Globes is often more adventurous than the film side in both its nominees and its winners. They love newcomers and new shows quickly but also tend to drop them year to year. Last year’s Drama Series and Drama Actress winners (The Affair and its star Ruth Wilson) weren’t even nominated this year. The Drama Actress category has two newcomers, two Emmy nominees and the most recent Emmy winner. Drama Series has newcomers and Emmy winners as well and this year feels like the Globes might mirror the Emmys more than they usually do.

Here are my predictions for the 2016 Golden Globes (Television):

DRAMA SERIES
Game of Thrones

I wouldn’t rule out a win for Mr. Robot here though.

DRAMA – ACTOR
Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Like Drama Series, Rami Malek could spoil this race for Jon Hamm but he finally got his Emmy so he’ll be ok.

DRAMA – ACTRESS
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder

Outlander fans will lose their minds if Caitriona Balfe loses but Emmy winner Davis seems like a good bet. Taraji P. Henson shouldn’t be discounted either, hers is the only show also nominated for Drama Series.

COMEDY OR MUSICAL SERIES
Transparent

Counting on a repeat win for Transparent here. Weirdly, this was the first year Veep has been nominated by the Globes in the Series category, maybe that means something.

COMEDY OR MUSICAL SERIES – ACTRESS
Jamie Lee Curtis, Scream Queens

Curtis won this category 16 years ago and Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never won (despite being the Emmy winner in this category four years running). This is a comeback for Curtis.

COMEDY OR MUSICAL SERIES – ACTOR
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Repeat winner for an even better season.

TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Fargo

Wolf Hall could spoil if the HFPA feels this is too “American.”

TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES – ACTOR
Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall

He might not win on the film side that night (or he’ll be a double winner) but this feels like a safe bet.

TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES – ACTRESS
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo

Will the HFPA have a flashback to Madonna beating Frances McDormand in Fargo? Hopefully not. This is actually a tough category with Felicity Huffman, Queen Latifah and newcomer Sarah Hay giving Dunst chase. As long as it’s not Lady Gaga. But, watch out.

SERIES, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES – SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King, American Crime

Going with the Emmy winner here, it’s a tough race to call.

SERIES, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES – SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot

Would be strange for Slater to win without Malek but the Globes don’t really care about that kind of thing.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.