Argo & Les Miserables Big Winners At 70th Golden Globes

Argo and Les Miserable come out trumps as big winners at last night’s 70th Golden Globes ceremony seen as a precursor to the Oscars and Ben Affleck bagging himself a gong for best director and best motion picture.

Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables was another big winner grabbing the awards for best movie in musicial or comedy, Best Actor (Hugh Jackman) and Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway).Daniel Day Lewis won best actor in Lincoln despite mixed reviews stateside (out 25th January in UK), its still the most nominated film so far, Armour won best foreign film and should bag the Oscar next month. The most shocked of the night was Adele who won  Best Original Song for Skyfall, a song she only decided to recorded at last minute but as the last 12-18 months have been for the British singer it’s no surprise she’s still winning the plaudits and will probably bag more accolades.

Seven time Golden Globe winner Jodie Foster  won the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. It was an emotional speech which included her confirmation Hollywood’s most open secret about her personal life, Jodie well done! (speech below). It was not al about the big screen American television where honoured last night with Breaking Bad, Modern Family and Downton Abbey all picking up gongs including best supporting actress for Dame Maggie Smith.For second year running Homeland ran away for some of the big awards including best actress for Claire Danes and best actor for Brit Damian Lewis.

Compared to previous years the ceremony was a little more low key with no Ricky Gervais making life uncomfortable for nominees, so the night went to  Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. With no Ricky in the building the crudeness may have disappeared but our genial hosts made sure the celebrity knew the score and everyone from George Clooney to Sacha Baron Cohen felt the light hearted forced of Fey and Poehlr.

Here’s the winners list:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Argo
Django Unchained
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Les Miserables
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook

BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee – Life Of Pi
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

BEST ACTOR – MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Richard Gere-  Arbitrage
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washingto – Flight

BEST ACTRESS – MOTION PICTURE DRAMA
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust And Bone
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

BEST ACTOR – MOTION PICTURE MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Hugh Jackman –  Les Miserables
Jack Black – Bernie
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Ewan McGregor – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Bill Murray – Hyde Park On Hudson

BEST ACTRESS – MOTION PICTURE MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emily Blunt – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Judi Dench – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Maggie Smith – Quartet
Meryl Streep – Hope Springs

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Alan Arkin – Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – MOTION PICTURE
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Amy Adams – The  Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy

BEST SCREENPLAY
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Argo

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Skyfall – Skyfall
For You – Act Of Valor
Not Running Anymore – Stand Up Guys
Safe And Sound – The Hunger Games
Suddenly – Les Misérables

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Life Of Pi
Argo
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour
A Royal Affair
The Untouchables
Kon-Tiki
Rust And Bone

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise Of The Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARD
Jodie Foster

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Television  

BEST TV SERIES – DRAMA
Homeland
Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
The Newsroom

BEST TV SERIES – COMEDY
Girls
The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Modern Family
Smash

BEST ACTOR – TV SERIES, DRAMA
Damian Lewis –  Homeland
Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels – The Newsroom
Jon Hamm – Mad Men

BEST ACTRESS – TV SERIES DRAMA
Claire Danes – Homeland
Connie Britton – Nashville
Glenn Close – Damages
Michelle Dockery – Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife

BEST ACTOR – TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Kevin Costner – Hatfield & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch –  Sherlock
Woody Harrelson – Game Change
Toby Jones – The Girl
Clive Owen – Hemingway & Gellhorn

BEST ACTRESS – TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Julianne Moore – Game Change
Nicole Kidman –  Hemingway & Gellhorn
Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Asylum
Sienna Miller – The Girl
Sigourney Weaver – Political Animals

BEST ACTOR IN A TV SERIES – COMEDY
Don Cheadle – House Of Lies
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Louis CK – Louie
Matt LeBlanc –  Episodes
Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory

BEST ACTRESS – TV SERIES COMEDY
Lena Dunham – Girls
Zooey Deschanel – New Girl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
Tina Fey – 30 Rock
Amy Poehler – Parks And Recreation

BEST MINISERIES/TV MOVIE
Game Change
The Girl
Hatfield & McCoys
The Hour
Political Animals

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SERIES, MINISERIES, MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Ed Harris, Game Change
Max Greenfield – New Girl
Danny Houston – Magic City
Mandy Patinkin – Homeland
Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, SERIES, MINISERIES, MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey
Hayden Panettiere – Nashville
Archie Panjabi – The Good Wife
Sarah Paulson – Game Change
Sofia Vergara – Modern Family