Last night it was a dream come true -- and a truly heinous pun -- for the cast and crew of musical Dreamgirls as the movie became the biggest winner at the Golden Globes. The film picked up Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Supporting Actor for Eddie Murphy and Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Hudson.
Best Picture (Drama) went to Babel, which apparently directed itself because Martin Scorsese took the Best Director prize for The Departed. Leading a good night for British talent, Helen Mirren was Best Actress (Drama) and Meryl Streep Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for The Queen and The Devil Wears Prada respectively. As for the men, Forest Whitaker was named Best Actor (Drama) for Last King of Scotland and Sacha Baron Cohen Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for Borat.
Making up the rest of the field were Cars for Best Animated Feature, Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima for Best Foreign Language Film and Peter Morgan taking Best Screenplay for The Queen.
The Golden Globes are often labeled as a big precursor to Oscar winners, when in fact the Globes are more like the Oscars held in a church hall by a gaggle of drunk autograph hunters who made their awards out of gold-sprayed Barbie and some dried pasta. So what do these awards actually mean for the big competition? Well, not an awful lot. The Globes splits acting nominees into two categories, Drama and Comedy or Musical, so a front-runner can never emerge. Helen Mirren has been the pick of almost every awards so far, so don't expect Meryl Streep to pose any significant contest. Forrest Whittaker has been similarly lauded elsewhere, while Cohen is a waaaay outside bet.
On the film front, the awards couldn't have been less clear. Each of the Oscar Best Picture frontrunners (Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls and Letters From Iwo Jima) picked up a major award, pushing none to the fore. Iwo Jima won't qualify for Foreign Language Pic at the Oscars, so will almost certainly figure in the Best Pic category, though on wider awards form, The Departed has the edge. So, our advice for now is don't make any Oscar bets, unless they're on Helen Mirren or Forest Whitaker.
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MOTION PICTURES
DRAMA
Babel
ACTRESS (DRAMA)
**Helen Mirren **- The Queen
ACTOR (DRAMA)
**Forest Whitaker **- The Last King of Scotland
MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Dreamgirls - DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures
ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
**Meryl Streep **- The Devil Wears Prada
ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
**Sacha Baron Cohen **- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
ANIMATED FILM
Cars - Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studio; Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Letters from Iwo Jima
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Hudson - "Dreamgirls"
SUPPORTING ACTOR
**Eddie Murphy **- Dreamgirls
DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
SCREENPLAY
Peter Morgan - The Queen
ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil
ORIGINAL SONG
The Song of the Heart - "Happy Feet"
TELEVISION
DRAMA
Grey's Anatomy
ACTRESS (DRAMA)
**Kyra Sedgwick **- The Closer
ACTOR (DRAMA)
**Hugh Laurie **- House
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Ugly Betty
ACTRESS (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)
America Ferrera - Ugly BettyACTOR (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)
**Alec Baldwin **- 30 Rock
MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Elizabeth I
ACTRESS (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
**Helen Mirren **- Elizabeth I
ACTOR (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
**Bill Nighy **- Gideon's Daughter
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
**Emily Blunt **- Gideon's Daughter
SUPPORTING ACTOR
**Jeremy Irons **- Elizabeth I
CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARD
**Warren Beatty
**{Golden Globe Awards 2007 Press Room}