Zelda is by far the best reviewed game of the year so far, so it will probably get most GOTY awards. MEA, SMO and RDR2 aren't released yet, so they still have a good chance to win some GOTYs.
The chances of Resident Evil 7 are very small though. It's very good as a horror game, but it's by no means the best game of the year.

Between zelda and red dead..... it would be kinda stupid for a publication to score red dead lower than zelda but then vote red dead in for their game of the year. So if we see red dead with a meat of 97/98, then it takes it. If its around 95/94 then zelda takes it.

This year is looking to be one of the best years of gaming ever. It's a shame that only one title can take that prize home. Put any one of these five games in the year 2014, and the game would be guaranteed to win goty, destroying Dragon Age Inquisition.

You mean the ... TGAs, I guess it would be called?  Geoff Keighley's thing?  I consider that the least meaningful, since it's based on votes from people at Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Activision, etc.  

There are roughly 246,000 "Game of the Year" awards given out each year.  None of them carry any real importance and none of them are more than just the opinions of a handful of people.  I guess the closest thing would be who gets the most awards but that's still kind of murky since it includes a lot of websites I wouldn't necessarily trust.  

When people ask a question like this, they really need to be specific.  

That's not really true in a lot of cases.  Why would the writer(s) of those reviews get to decide for the entire staff at a publication?  It would just be "Writer X's Game of the Year" instead of "Cabbage Weekly's Game of the Year."

Considering many in their reviews for BOTW say it might be the best game of all time, I'm thinking this one has it in the bag.

Personally my prediction is meant for this:

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/

ME:A looks amazingly low budget. It looks rushed. Bioware has been trash since ME3 so I doubt they are winning awards anytime soon. Zelda is the top contender atm. RE7 will win best horror but doubt it wins GOTY. Mario likely won't win just because Nintendo likes to release games well after the Nominees in the VGA's are set. RDR2 may challenge Zelda. Persona 5 likely best RPG. HZD maybe best PS4 game (tho I think Nier Automata/Yakuza 0 and Gravity Rush 2 are better)

It'll ultimately come down to Zelda and RDR2

Yeah, thats the one.Hope they keep to one name, its really confusing the constant name changes(Yeah, I know its because it got off Spike hands to Geoff, but still)

But no, there are no votes from publishers, but only from major publication sites, like IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku, etc.This is why I personally consider it the "Oscars" of the Videogame industry.Its the one award that gets closer to what we can call a concenssus.Its like the metacritic discussion.Metacritic is a conglomerate of opinions that gives a score to a game.Wether  you will like the game or not its up to you, because after all tastes are unique to each one, but we need a point of comparison in discussions to have some ground for arguments, and picking metacritic as a general concenssus for which game is considered a better game or at least one that does thing better is the closest thing we will get to it, otherwise we will be stuck eternally on the "I dont agree with you and you are wrong because thats just your opinion" argument and discussion will never go foward.

The same can be applied to TGA and GOTY in general.TGA is the only one that gives awards based on the concenssus of several critics from several media outlets, and the major ones at that, so I think its the more "objective" of all awards, as objective as opinions can be.Wether you agree with the decisions they make or not its up to you(and wether you enjoy the games they choose its also up to you.After all, a review or wether a game is worthy of a award is basedon opinions), but when we discuss with others about those kind of subjects, a point of comparison needs to be estabilished.And TGA as the best GOTY giver is a reasonable pick.