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January 13, 2009, Tuesday
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HEATH Ledger got his Golden Globe, and Kate Winslet came away with two. Yet the night belonged to the newcomers and underdogs, especially best drama winner "Slumdog Millionaire."
With four awards on Sunday, the Indian film emerged as the potential one-to-beat at the Academy Awards, an unexpected position for a movie with a cast of unknowns and a story set among orphans and criminals on the streets of Mumbai.
"Is this really happening to me? My first film wins four Golden Globes? I just can't believe it," "Slumdog Millionaire" co-star Freida Pinto gushed to reporters backstage as she stood among her collaborators, including Danny Boyle, who won the best-director prize.
A critical darling and solid box-office success, "Slumdog Millionaire" knocked off best-drama nominees that included Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio's "Revolutionary Road" and Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon."
"They have this expression ?? which I hope I pronounce correctly ?? in Hindi, which is when you do something, you should do it from the heart," director Boyle said backstage. "The film was made from the heart, and we never expected to be here, and it's incredible that we are."
The best screenplay and musical score prizes also went to "Slumdog Millionaire," the story of an orphan boy who rises from terrible hardship to become a champ on India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", all the while trying to reunite with a lost love from his childhood.
"Benjamin Button," "Frost/Nixon" and Meryl Streep's "Doubt" all came in tied for the lead with five Globe nominations and all went away empty-handed.
Woody Allen's Spanish romance "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" won best musical or comedy film.
The night belonged mainly to non-A-listers and films below the radar.
Mickey Rourke returned from the wilderness to earn the Globe for best dramatic actor in "The Wrestler," a film whose comeback theme paralleled the actor's own journey back from Hollywood pariah.
Winslet, previously nominated five times without winning at both the Globes and Oscars, won for her role as a woman in a crumbling marriage in "Revolutionary Road" and as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in "The Reader."
There was little surprise in the supporting-actor category. Virtually since he died nearly a year ago, Ledger has been the name on everyone's lips for that award. Ledger won the prize for his turn as the Joker in the Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight."
With four awards on Sunday, the Indian film emerged as the potential one-to-beat at the Academy Awards, an unexpected position for a movie with a cast of unknowns and a story set among orphans and criminals on the streets of Mumbai.
"Is this really happening to me? My first film wins four Golden Globes? I just can't believe it," "Slumdog Millionaire" co-star Freida Pinto gushed to reporters backstage as she stood among her collaborators, including Danny Boyle, who won the best-director prize.
A critical darling and solid box-office success, "Slumdog Millionaire" knocked off best-drama nominees that included Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio's "Revolutionary Road" and Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon."
"They have this expression ?? which I hope I pronounce correctly ?? in Hindi, which is when you do something, you should do it from the heart," director Boyle said backstage. "The film was made from the heart, and we never expected to be here, and it's incredible that we are."
The best screenplay and musical score prizes also went to "Slumdog Millionaire," the story of an orphan boy who rises from terrible hardship to become a champ on India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", all the while trying to reunite with a lost love from his childhood.
"Benjamin Button," "Frost/Nixon" and Meryl Streep's "Doubt" all came in tied for the lead with five Globe nominations and all went away empty-handed.
Woody Allen's Spanish romance "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" won best musical or comedy film.
The night belonged mainly to non-A-listers and films below the radar.
Mickey Rourke returned from the wilderness to earn the Globe for best dramatic actor in "The Wrestler," a film whose comeback theme paralleled the actor's own journey back from Hollywood pariah.
Winslet, previously nominated five times without winning at both the Globes and Oscars, won for her role as a woman in a crumbling marriage in "Revolutionary Road" and as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in "The Reader."
There was little surprise in the supporting-actor category. Virtually since he died nearly a year ago, Ledger has been the name on everyone's lips for that award. Ledger won the prize for his turn as the Joker in the Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight."
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