The Penske Golden Globes are insanely corrupt. The most likely winners, it is widely presumed, will be the nominees backed by the deepest pockets….the price is right…if ya wanna slide, ya gotta grease…simple as that.

Which means, of course, that since poor little Neon can’t compete with Universal and Netflix in terms of Penske spending splurges (FYC Phase One ads in Deadline, Variety and THR, special facetime-luncheon whore events) that poor little Anora will probably get edged out, most likely by Wicked.

The second act of Anora is hilarious but it’s not really a comedy, and yet the Globes have categorized it as a musical or comedy. Wicked is obviously and emphatically a musical so it’ll probably win.

I’ve just submitted my Gatecrashers GG prediction ballot…see below…I know the deck is stacked against Anora but I can’t vote for Wicked…I just can’t.

From Richard Rushfield‘s Ankler piece about the Globes…”How to Watch a Second-Tier Awards Show“…essential reading:

“There’s something fitting about the timing of Sunday’s Golden Globes, [roughly] two weeks ahead of the second inauguration of Donald Trump. The gaudiness, the scandals, the obeisance to corrupt foreign powers, the random bit players elevated to high office — and Hollywood’s willingness to shrug and play along with the madness.

“That said, even amid an Attorney General’s probe into the legitimacy of the purchase (as I exclusively reported in November and which of course, was not covered in Variety, Deadline or THR), this ethics-challenged, anticipated-by-no-one awards show must go on.

“So if you’re the producer of an awards contender, does buying ads in a Penske publication help your shot at a nomination from the Globes? We don’t know that it does or doesn’t.

“The rules are on the site, of course, and they specify a voting body which includes the former HFPA members, but keeping the lines of church and state separate hasn’t exactly been a specialty of the Penske portfolio.

“If you have any question about how blurred the lines are, the fact that the Penske Big Three (Deadline, Variety, THR) have uniformly refused to so much as glance at the problems outlined above suggests the answer.”