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Here are the winners at the Golden Globes, which took place in Beverley Hills earlier today.

FILM

Best Picture (Drama): Avatar
Best Picture (Comedy/Musical): The Hangover
Best Director: James Cameron, Avatar
Best Actress (Drama): Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Actor (Drama): Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress (Comedy/Musical): Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Actor (Comedy/Musical): Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon
Best Animated Feature: Up
Best Screenplay: Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino, Up
Best Original Song: The Weary Kind, Crazy Heart

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TV

Best TV Series (Drama): Mad Men
Best TV Series (Comedy): Glee
Best TV Miniseries: Grey Gardens
Best Actress, TV Miniseries: Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Best Actor, TV Miniseries: Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Best Actress, TV Drama: Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Best Actor, TV Drama: Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Best Actress, TV Comedy: Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Best Actor, TV Comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Best Supporting Actress, TV: Chloe Sevigny, Big Love
Best Supporting Actor, TV: John Lithgow, Dexter

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The Golden Globes should always be taken with a pinch of salt, as they are voted for by a select group of foreign journalists in Los Angeles who basically try to second guess what the Oscar nominations will be.

The win for Robert Downey Jnr in Sherlock Holmes is reflective of the nonsensical, showbiz tastes that are rife amongst the ageing cabal of hacks that make up the HFPA.

With that in mind, the major winners could mirror the Oscars this year with Avatar, James Cameron, Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock all looking very strong in their respective categories.

Oscar pundits will tell you that Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique have been virtual certainties in the supporting categories for quite a while and their wins here were no surprise.

> Official site
> More about the Golden Globes at Wikipedia

This year’s Golden Globe nominations have been announced and here the the film categories.

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

• Avatar (Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox)
• The Hurt Locker (Voltage Pictures C/O 42West; Summit Entertainment)
• Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company)
• Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire (A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment; Lionsgate)
• Up In The Air (Paramount Pictures)

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA

• Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan – An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
• George Clooney – Up In The Air
• Colin Firth – A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus
• Tobey Maguire – Brothers

BEST PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• (500) Days Of Summer (Watermark Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• The Hangover (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• It’s Complicated (Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions; Universal Pictures)
• Julie & Julia (Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing)
• Nine (The Weinstein Company)

BEST ACTRESS – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
• Marion Cotillard – Nine
• Julia Roberts – Duplicity
• Meryl Streep – It’s Complicated
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

BEST ACTOR – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• Matt Damon – The Informant!
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine
• Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days Of Summer
• Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man

BEST ANIMATED FILM

• Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (Columbia Pictures And Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures Releasing)
• Coraline (Laika, Inc.; Focus Features)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (American Empirical Picture; Twentieth Century Fox)
• The Princess And The Frog (Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios)
• Up (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Baaria (Italy)
• Broken Embraces (Spain)
• The Maid (Chile)
• A Prophet (France)
• The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Penélope Cruz – Nine
• Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air
• Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
• Mo’Nique – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
• Julianne Moore – A Single Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Matt Damon – Invictus
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

BEST DIRECTOR

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Clint Eastwood – Invictus
• Jason Reitman – Up In The Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell – District 9
• Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
• Nancy Meyers – It’s Complicated
• Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner –  Up In The Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Michael Giacchino – Up
• Marvin Hamlisch – The Informant!
• James Horner – Avatar
• Abel Korzeniowski & Karen O – A Single Man
• Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• “Cinema Italiano” – Nine (Music & Lyrics By: Maury Yeston)
• “I Want To Come Home” – Everybody’s Fine (Music & Lyrics By: Paul McCartney)
• “I Will See You” – Avatar (Music By: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Lyrics By: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell)
• “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” — Crazy Heart (Music & Lyrics By: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett)
• “Winter” – Brothers (Music by: U2, Lyrics by: Bono)

The winners will be announced at the official ceremony on January 17th, 2010.

> Official Golden Globes site
> Find out more about the HFPA at Wikipedia

This year’s Golden Globe nominations have been announced.

As always, they will be seen as a signpost for the Oscars but it is worth noting that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association split the major categories into Drama & Musical/Comedy and can occasionally offer up some weird choices.

That said, a large chunk of the films and performances will be the ones up for Oscar and BAFTA recognition. 

The surprises that initially stick out below are the lack of nominations for Milk in the major categories and the nod for Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

Here is the full list of film nominations:

Best Picture – Drama

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Comedy/Musical

• Burn After Reading
• Happy Go Lucky
• In Bruges
• Mamma Mia
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Actor – Comedy

• Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Colin Farrell, In Bruges
• James Franco, Pineapple Express
• Brendan Gleason, In Bruges
• Dustin Hoffman, Last Chance Harvey

Best Supporting Actress – Musical or Comedy

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
• Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Director

• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
• Stephen Daldry, The Reader
• David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
• Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor

• Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Tunder
• Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Actor – Drama

• Leo DiCaprio, Revolutionary  Road
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress – Drama

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Joie, Changeling
• Meryl Streep, Doubt
• Kristin Scott Thomas, I’ve Loved You So Long
• Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Best Actress – Comedy

• Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina
• Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
• Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
• Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia
• Emma Thompson, Last Chance Harvey

Foreign Language Film

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
• Gomorrah (Italy)
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• Waltz with Bashir

Best Animated Film 

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E

Best Screenplay

• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Reader
• Frost/Nixon
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Doubt

Best Score

• Benjamin Button
• Changeling
• Defiance
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Frost/Nixon

Best Song

• Down to Earth, Wall-E
• Gran Torino, Gran Torino 
• I Thought I Lost You, Bolt
• Once in a Lifetime, Cadillac Record
• The Wrestler, The Wrestler

> Check out the full list of nominations at the HFPA site
> Gauge reaction to the nominations at Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and In Contention