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DELHI: AR Rahman has bagged the best original
score award at the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards for Danny Boyle's
Slumdog Millionaire.
The film also won the best
director award for Danny Boyle
while Simon Beaufoy swept off the best screenplay. Slumdog was also named the
Best Motion Picture prize at the Golden Globe.
While
Wall-E bagged the award for best animated
feature film, the award for best foreign language
film was swept by Waltz With Bashir.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona won the award
for best motion picture-musical or comedy.
Furthermore,
the original song award was bagged by The
Wrestler. The song was performed by
Bruce Springsteen.
Meanwhile,
actress Kate Winslet bagged two awards in the categories of best performance by
an actress - drama for Revolutionary Road and best performance by an actress
in a supporting role for The Reader. The
award for best performance by an actor went to Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.
Sally Hawkins
won the award for best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy for Happy-Go-Lucky,
while the award for best performance by an actor in a musical or comedy went to
Collin Farrell for In Bruges.
Heath
Ledger was posthumously awarded for the
best performance by an actor in a supporting
role award for The Dark Knight.
In
the television category, Mad Men by AMC won the award for best television
series-drama followed by NBC’s 30 Rock which won the award for best
television series-musical or comedy. The
award for Best mini-series or motion picture made for television was won by HBO
for John Adams. Anna
Paquin swept the award for best performance by an actress in a television series-drama
for True Blood while In Treatment made Gabriel Byrne bagged the
award for best performance by an actor in a television series-drama.
Additionally,
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin won awards in the categories of best performance by
an actress and actor in a Television series- musical or comedy for 30 Rock
respectively. Also
the awards for best performance by an actress and actor in a mini-series or motion
picture made for television were won by Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti for John
Adams.
Laura Dern took away the award for Recount in the category of best performance
by an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture
made for television. Tom
Wilkinson won the award in the category of best performance by an actor in a supporting
role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television for John
Adams. Finally,
the Cecil B. DeMille award was presented to director Steven Spielberg. | 
