Mike McInally

Now that “Avatar” has nabbed top honors at the Golden Globes, I need to rethink some of the Oscar predictions I rashly made in a post last month.

Click here to see my earlier post about the Oscar front-runners.

“Avatar” won Globes for best dramatic movie and for director James Cameron, beating my early favorite, “Up in the Air.” (”Up in the Air” did win a screenplay Globe, a category in which “Avatar” was not nominated. I would be surprised if “Up in the Air” did not win the best-adapted screenplay Oscar.)

Jeff Bridges won a Globe for best dramatic performance for “Crazy Heart,” beating out George Clooney’s performance in “Up in the Air.” Bridges goes into the Oscar season as the new front-runner.

Dave Karger of Entertainment Weekly, for my money the best handicapper of the Oscar race, says the actress award now is down to a battle between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock. (Click here for Karger’s take on how the Globes may signal how the Oscar races are shaking out.)

Mo’Nique won a Globe for supporting actress for “Precious,” beating out — among other nominees — two from “Up in the Air.” (I still think, as I wrote last month, that Mo’Nique and Globe winner Christoph Waltz from “Inglourious Basterds” are just about locks for Oscars.)

Overall, the Globes could be a sign that “Up in the Air” peaked too soon. It also could be a sign that this year’s Oscar ceremony, in March, will be one of those affairs in which a lot of different movies win Oscars.

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