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Reagen Sulewski: I enjoy the element of unpredictability in the results this year. OK, there's a couple of the acting awards that are basically wrapped up, but in the past few years we've had coronations, and that's boring as a viewer. Perhaps there're be a conventional wisdom that coalesces closer to the ceremony date, but for now we've got a nice bit of uncertainty. As far as Argo winning the Globes goes - well, the Globes are the Globes, although they've tried to predict the Oscars lately. I do think it's funny that it's the third best of Ben Affleck's films that is getting all the award recognition, but perhaps it just took people time to acclimate themselves to the idea of Ben Affleck, All-Star Director.

Kim Hollis: I'm a little surprised that not one person has mentioned Beasts of the Southern Wild's Best Picture and Best Director nominations as a shock. While I can't say that I find the Best Picture nomination entirely unexpected, I would never ever ever have imagined that Benh Zeitlin would have gotten the Best Director nod.

Like Brett, I am also disappointed that Moonrise Kingdom couldn't sneak in for that 10th Best Picture spot.

While my hunch was that Silver Linings Playbook would get a lot of accolades, I'm still really happy to see it getting all the attention that it has. It's my favorite of the Best Picture nominees that I've seen (though to be fair I still need to see Lincoln, Django Unchained, Les Miserables and Amour) and I actually wonder if the Academy might not just decide it's David O. Russell's time when it comes to direction.

The Golden Globes were a glorious, sloppy mess and that's the way we like them. Argo/Affleck were huge surprises, I think. Mostly, I just enjoyed watching and trying to decide how drunk the various people were. I think Quentin Tarantino wins the prize for drunkest acceptance speech of the evening.

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