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Kate Winslet rules the Golden Globes
Louise Jury and Amar Singh12.01.09
KATE WINSLET was the star and Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire top film in an extraordinary night of British success at the Golden Globes.
Winslet won best actress and best supporting actress awards in only the third time a performer has won two Globes for acting in the same year. There were other British wins in the movies In Bruges and Happy-Go-Lucky with stars Colin Farrell and Sally Hawkins.
Heath Ledger won the best supporting actor for his last full performance in The Dark Knight.
But it was Danny Boyle's tale of a Mumbai teenager who goes on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire that was the biggest winner at the Los Angeles ceremony. It was best film drama and there were honours for its director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy - the man also behind The Full Monty - and composer AR Rahman.
Winslet, 33, and Slumdog Millionaire are now heavily tipped to replicate their Golden Globe success at the Academy Awards next month.
Accepting the best actress award for Revolutionary Road, Winslet said: "Thank you so much, it is absolutely extraordinary." Overcome with emotion, she paid tribute to her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom she first performed in Titanic, and to her husband, Sam Mendes, who directed the story of an unhappy marriage in Fifties America. She joked to Mendes: "Thank you for killing us," adding: "I have loved you with all my heart. I loved every second working with you."
She was also named best supporting actress for her portrayal of a former concentration camp guard in Stephen Daldry's adaptation of German novel The Reader. Ricky Gervais congratulated Winslet who appeared in an episode of his show Extras playing herself in a Holocaust movie. He said: "I told you, do a Holocaust movie and the awards come, didn't I?"
Danny Boyle, 52, thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which organised the Globes. "Your mad, pulsating affection for our film is much appreciated. The film was made from the heart, really," he said.
The wins for Hawkins and Farrell, both 32, were a triumph for Film4 which backed Slumdog Millionaire, Happy-Go-Lucky and In Bruges. Tom Wilkinson, 60, won a TV award for playing Benjamin Franklin in John Adams.
The winners
Film, drama - Slumdog Millionaire
Film, musical or comedy - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Actor, drama - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress, drama - Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Director Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Actor, musical or comedy - Colin Farrell, In Bruges
Actress, musical or comedy - Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Supporting actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Supporting actress - Kate Winslet, The Reader
Foreign language film - Waltz With Bashir
Animated film - Wall-E
Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Original score - AR Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Original song - The Wrestler, written and performed by Bruce Springsteen
Series, drama - Mad Men
Actor, drama - Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Actress, drama - Anna Paquin, True Blood
Series, musical or comedy - 30 Rock
Actor, musical or comedy - Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Actress, musical or comedy - Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Mini-series or movie - John Adams
Actress, mini-series or movie - Laura Linney, John Adams
Actor, mini-series or movie - Paul Giammatti, John Adams
Supporting actress, series, mini-series or movie - Laura Dern, Recount
Supporting actor, series, mini-series or movie - Tom Wilkinson, John Adams
Cecil B. DeMille award - Steven Spielberg
Reader views (5)
I understand that in recognition of the award ceremony when the 'best' is presented with the prize that in future the Golden Globes will take the shape of a box of paper tissues. I don't know about crying but this self -congratulatory nonsense get on my nerves.
- Joe, Thornton Heath, UK
Colin Farrell's was a win for a British film, they were not talking about his origins !
- Lee Wilson, London
Why is Kate Winslet up for Best Supporting Actress for The Reader (and not Best Actress) - she's on screen throughout the whole film? Is this an easier Oscar category??
- Jon, London
what part of britian is colin farrel from
- Mat, london
WOOO HEATH LEDGER
- Kate, London
