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What to Expect From the 2019 Golden Globes

This year’s awards season is kicking off with what is sure to be a lively ceremony, hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg.
Source: Phil McCarten / Invision for the Television Academy / AP

The Golden Globes has always occupied the same place in Hollywood’s calendar: It’s the boozy kickoff to awards season, a more raucous ceremony than the Oscars, but also a helpful preview for it. What films and actors triumph at the Globes is less a matter of taste—the 90-odd members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are notorious for their unreliability—and more an act of guesswork for who will win more trophies down the road as the industry begins a

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