"Without all of these events, this might be the purest award season," said Dave Karger, a veteran award expert and a personality on the cable network TCM. "It also might be the strangest." The lack of in-person gatherings already has had a surreal effect on the Globes. When the award show's winners (decided by the roughly 90 journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) are announced Sunday, they will come from a list that includes such top nominees as the Kate Hudson drama Music, a movie few pundits had even heard of before it was nominated. "With muted campaigns, no industry events and very few seeing print trades, the usual consensus-building is gone, and voters are left to what they actually think," tweeted Matthew Belloni, the former editor of the Hollywood Reporter, after the Globes announcement. "The Oscars might be equally shocking."