The Golden Globe Awards 2009

The Golden Globe Awards are back, after being cancelled last year due to the writers strike. (In place of the regular star-studded show, winners were announced at a simple press conference.) . The awards were presented on Sunday, January 11, 2009, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The names of the winners are :

MOTION PICTURES
Picture, Drama: "Slumdog Millionaire"
(Nominees : "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button"; "Frost/Nixon"; "The Reader"; "Revolutionary Road")
Motion picture, musical or comedy: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
(Nominees : "Burn After Reading"; "Happy-Go-Lucky"; "In Bruges"; "Mamma Mia!"
Actress, Drama: Kate Winslet ("Revolutionary Road")
(Nominees : .Anne Hathaway ("Rachel Getting Married"); Angelina Jolie ("Changeling"); Meryl Streep ("Doubt"); Kristin Scott Thomas ("I've Loved You So Long")
Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler")
(Nominees : Leonardo DiCaprio ("Revolutionary Road"); Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon"); Sean Penn ("Milk"); Brad Pitt ("The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button")
Actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy: Sally Hawkins ("Happy-Go-Lucky")
(Nominees : Rebecca Hall ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"); Frances McDormand ("Burn After Reading"); Meryl Streep ("Mamma Mia!"); Emma Thompson ("Last Chance Harvey")
Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy: Colin Farrell ("In Bruges")
(Nominees : Javier Bardem ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"); James Franco ("Pineapple Express"); Brendan Gleeson ("In Bruges"); Dustin Hoffman ("Last Chance Harvey")
Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet ("The Reader")
(Nominees : Amy Adams ("Doubt); Penélope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"); Viola Davis ("Doubt"); Marisa Tomei ("The Wrestler")
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger ("The Dark Knight")
(Nominees : Tom Cruise ("Tropic Thunder"); Robert Downey Jr. ("Tropic Thunder"); Ralph Fiennes ("The Duchess"); Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt")
Animated Film: "Wall-E" (Nominees : "Bolt"; "Kung Fu Panda")
Foreign Language Film: "Waltz With Bashir" (Israel)
(Nominees : "The Baader Meinhof Complex" (Germany); "Everlasting Moments" (Sweden, Denmark); "Gomorrah (Italy); "I've Loved You So Long" (France)
Director: Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire")
(Nominees : Stephen Daldry ("The Reader"); David Fincher ("The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button"); Ron Howard ("Frost/Nixon"); Sam Mendes ("Revolutionary Road")
Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire")
(Nominees : David Hare ("The Reader"); Peter Morgan ("Frost/Nixon"); Eric Roth ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"); John Patrick Shanley ("Doubt")
Original Score: A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog Millionaire")
(Nominees : Alexandre Desplat ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"); Clint Eastwood ("Changeling"); James Newton Howard ("Defiance"); Hans Zimmer ("Frost/Nixon")
Original Song: The Wrestler" from "The Wrestler"
(Nominees : "Down to Earth" from "WALL-E"; "Gran Torino" from "Gran Torino"; "I Thought I Lost You" from "Bolt"; "Once in a Lifetime" from "Cadillac Records")

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Drama Series: "Mad Men"
(Nominees : "Dexter"; "House"; "In Treatment"; "True Blood")
Actress, Drama: Anna Paquin ("True Blood")
(Nominees : Sally Field ("Brothers & Sisters"); Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"); January Jones ("Mad Men"); Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer")
Actor, Drama: Gabriel Byrne ("In Treatment")
(Nominees : Michael C. Hall ("Dexter"); Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"); Hugh Laurie ("House"); Jonathan Rhys Meyers (" The Tudors")
Musical or Comedy Series: "30 Rock"
(Nominees : "Californication"; "Entourage"; "The Office"; "Weeds")
Actress, Musical or Comedy Series: Tina Fey ("30 Rock")
(Nominees : Christina Applegate ("Samantha Who?"); America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty"); Debra Messing ("The Starter Wife"); Mary-Louise Parker ("Weeds")
Actor, Musical or Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock")
(Nominees : Steve Carell ("The Office"); Kevin Connolly ("Entourage"); David Duchovny ("Californication"); Tony Shalhoub ("Monk")
Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: "John Adams"
(Nominees : "A Raisin in the Sun"; "Bernard and Doris"; "Cranford"; "Recount")
Actress, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Laura Linney ("John Adams")
(Nominees : Judi Dench ("Cranford"); Catherine Keener ("An American Crime"); Shirley MacLaine ("Coco Chanel"); Susan Sarandon ("Bernard and Doris")
Actor, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Paul Giamatti ("John Adams")
(Nominees : Ralph Fiennes ("Bernard and Doris"); Kevin Spacey ("Recount"); Kiefer Sutherland ("24: Redemption"); Tom Wilkinson ("Recount")
Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Laura Dern ("Recount")
(Nominees : Eileen Atkins ("Cranford"); Melissa George ("In Treatment"); Rachel Griffiths ("Brothers & Sisters"); Dianne Wiest ("In Treatment")
Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Tom Wilkinson ("John Adams")
(Nominees : Neil Patrick Harris ("How I Met Your Mother"); Denis Leary ("Recount"); Jeremy Piven ("Entourage"); Blair Underwood ("In Treatment")
Cecil B. DeMille Award (for career achievement): Steven Spielberg