I’m backing Birdman Michael Keaton to beat Redmayne and Cumberbatch to Best Actor Oscars gong

2015 gets off to a Golden start at the Globes.

There’s no rest for the wicked, or even Los Angeles-based telly presenters.

We’re well into the new year and it seems everyone is just getting back to their normal routine after the busy festive period.

But with awards season kicking off I’m busier than a January sale, and I will be until February. I’m absolutely cream-crackered but I wouldn’t change a minute of it.

Last week I was at the Golden Globes, the ceremony that gives you an idea of how next month’s Oscars will shape up. So I ironed one of my tuxes and went off to the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

There were seven parties going on throughout the glitzy venue, but I only managed to get round four of them.

It was a bit of a British invasion Keira Knightley, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch and Rosamund Pike all made it along, among others.

In terms of the winners, I noticed both Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne won in their Best Actor categories.

Redmayne, who previously starred in Les Miserables, is brilliant in The Theory of Everything as Professor Stephen Hawking. As was Benedict Cumberbatch in his part in spy drama The Imitation Game.

But I’m going to stick my neck out and say Michael Keaton will nick the Oscar from those two for his turn in Birdman.

For one thing Redmayne and Cumberbatch are English, and the Academy like a local lad.

Not only is Keaton American, but he’s also making a wee bit of a comeback in Birdman after a few years outside the mainstream. And if there’s one thing the Academy love it’s a comeback story.

Elsewhere, the gorgeous Amy Adams won the Best Actress gong for the true-life tale Big Eyes she said she was so unprepared she hadn’t even applied lip gloss. The horror!

“She looks terrible,” said absolutely no one.

There’ll be more to come on the Oscars in the coming weeks, plus I’ll be chatting to Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez and the cast of Downton out here in Hollywood.

I told you it was a quiet start to the New Year!