Hugh
Jackman celebrates in the press room after winning the Golden Globe for best
actor in a motion picture comedy or musical for Les Miserables. Source:
AFP
Hugh Jackman has won the best actor Golden Globe for
his role in Les Miserables.
The
win is a major boost to Jackman's Oscar hopes, confirming him as the second
favourite for the Academy Award behind frontrunner Daniel Day-Lewis, who won
the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama for Lincoln.
"Wow. Thank you,''
a jubilant Jackman said on stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The Golden Globes splits
best actor into two categories, with Jackman competing in the musical/comedy
race and Day-Lewis in drama.
The Globes do not always
predict the winners of the Oscars, but a win boosts a campaign, while a loss
can torpedo an actor's chances.
Ben Affleck's political
thriller Argo took out best picture (drama) at the ceremony.
Affleck, who missed out
on an Oscar nod last week, was awarded the best director award.
Ben Affleck with his
award for best director for Argo.
Besides Jackman's win,
it was a dire night for the Australian nominees.
Naomi Watts' Oscar
chances for lead actress took a dive after she was left out in the cold.
The Globe for best
actress in a drama went to Zero Dark Thirty'sJessica Chastain.
Earlier, Nicole Kidman
was up for two Golden Globes - for her supporting performance in The
Paperboy and the TV movie Hemingway & Gellhorn- but bombed out
of both.
Keith Urban was
nominated in the original song category for For You, but was beaten by Adele's
song Skyfall.
Jodie Foster was
presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contribution to the
entertainment field.
Kidman lost out to Anne
Hathaway, who won best supporting actor for Les Miserables.
Clutching her award,
Hathaway called it a "lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a
weapon against self-doubt''.
She also paid tribute to
fellow nominee Sally Field, calling the woman who has gone from playing the
Flying Nun to Mary Todd Lincoln "a vanguard against typecasting''.
Hollywood heavyweight
Jodie Foster was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement
for an illustrious career that has taken her from child star to Oscar-winning
actress and respected film director.
Foster teased the global
audience with what appeared to be a "coming out" speech then turned
it into a wish for more privacy
"Every celebrity is
supposed to honour the details of their private lives with a press conference,
a fragrance and a reality show,'' Foster said while accepting award.
"I have given
everything, up there (on the screen), since I was three years old, that's
reality enough, I think.''
In a somewhat rambling
speech, the 50-year-old built up to the big announcement then threw out the
punchline: "I'm single''.
"I hope you're not
disappointed that there won't be a big coming out speech tonight,'' she
continued, adding that she did her coming out a lifetime ago to friends as a
vulnerable girl and then "gradually, proudly'' to everyone she met.
Affleck's voice wavered
as he accepted his best director Globe for Argo.
He paid tribute to the other directors nominated (Spielberg, Lee, Bigelow and
Tarantino) and those who stuck with him when he was a "nobody''.
He also thanked wife
Jennifer Garner saying, "You're my everything.''
Previously, in the
absence of last year's host Ricky Gervais, presenter Sacha Baron Cohen stepped
in to make the A-listers a little uncomfortable at the 2013 Golden Globes.
"Let's all clap
ourselves, come on,'' he told the assembled in a faux regal British accent.
"Not you, Daniel Day-Lewis,'' he barked at the Lincoln star, "anyone can grow a bloody
beard!''
He then joked about the
lengths his Les Miserables
co-stars went to for the film, including our Rusty: "Russell Crowe had
four months of singing lessons that was money well spent.''
Former US president Bill
Clinton brought a different kind of prestige to the ceremony, receiving an
extended standing ovation when he stepped on stage to introduce best picture
nominee Lincoln.
Steven Spielberg's film
follows the president who ended the Civil War and freed the slaves. Clinton
said: "We're all here tonight because he (President Lincoln) did it.''
The surprise presenter
got co-host Amy Poehler excited: "Oh my God, do you know who that was?
That was Hillary Clinton's husband!'' she exclaimed after he left the stage.
Oscar favourite Jennifer
Lawrence took out the award for best actress in a comedy or musical for Silver Linings Playbook.
"I beat
Meryl," the excited star exclaimed, referring to fellow nominee Meryl
Streep.
In other categories,
Quentin Tarantino won the best screenplay award for his controversial slavery
film Django Unchained.
"This is a damn surprise,
and I'm happy to be surprised,'' he said, accepting the award for his latest
movie, starring Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who teams up with a
dentist-turned-bounty hunter, played by Christophe Waltz.
Earlier, Waltz won the
first award of the night, taking out best supporting actor.
The Austrian actor
thanked Tarantino for "an amazing journey" after beating co-star
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Actress and film-maker
Lena Dunham, one of young Hollywood's hottest talents, won the award for best
actress for her television series Girls.
"This award is for
every woman who felt like there wasn't a space for her," Dunham said.
"This show has made a space for me.''
Austria's Amourwon best foreign
language film, beating Rust
and Bone, The
Intouchables, A
Royal Affair and Kon-Tiki.
The Pixar filmBrave took out best
animated feature film.
Reaction to hosts Tina
Fey and Amy Poehler has been overwhelmingly positive, with many Twitterers
calling for the ladies to host every awards ceremony in future.
In their opening,
Poehler joked that the pair had no intention of doing anything as controversial
as past host Ricky Gervais, then minutes later dropped a line on Zero Dark Thirty director
Kathryn Bigelow that had the star-packed audience gasping.
"When it comes to
torture, I trust the woman who spent three years married to James Cameron,''
Poehler said.
Tina Fey poked fun at
superstar Taylor Swift, renowned for her romances with One Direction's Harry
Styles and 18-year-old Conor Kennedy.
"You know what, Taylor
Swift, you stay away from Michael J. Fox's son," Fey said.
The younger Fox, Sam,
was on stage alongside Clint Eastwood's daughter Francesca as "Mr and Miss
Golden Globe''.
On the red carpet,
Poehler said, "We haven't even thought about the nominations part because
we're so stressed about hosting.''
Presenters Paul Rudd and
Salma Hayek had a slip up, with teleprompter problems leading them to fluff the
intro of the best television series drama category (which was won by Homeland).
Other Australians still
in the running for Globes tonight include Hugh Jackman (attending with his wife
Deborra-Lee Furness) and Naomi Watts. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson was spotted hanging
out with old Hollywood mates Jodie Foster and Robert Downey Jr.
Veteran actress Maggie
Smith, who plays Violet Crawley, the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey, won
as best supporting actress in a TV series. She wasn't in California to receive
her award.
British actor Damian
Lewis was also a winner, taking the award for best actor in a television drama
for his role in Homeland.
Earlier, Tinseltown's
big guns graced the red carpet outside the Beverly Hilton for the Golden Globes
ceremony under sunny skies but crisp temperatures.
Australia's big four -
Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban - also hit the red
carpet.
Other celebrities
strutting their stuff included Australian actress Isla Fisher, Kelly Osbourne
and fashion designer Nicole Richie.
Excited onlookers lined
up across the street hoping for a glimpse of their favourite celebrity.
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