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Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer won acting honors at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday that was spreading Hollywood’s love around among a broad range of films and TV shows, MSNBC.com reports.
British comedian Ricky Gervais, who has ruffled feathers at past shows with sharp wisecracks aimed at Hollywood’s elite and the Globes show itself, returned as host for the third-straight year.
Williams won for actress in a musical or comedy as Marilyn Monroe in “My Week with Marilyn,” 52 years after Monroe’s win for the same prize at the Globes.
The supporting-acting Globes went to Plummer as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in the father-son drama “Beginners” and Spencer as a brassy housekeeper joining other black maids to share stories about life with their white employers in the 1960s Deep South tale “The Help.”
The black-and-white silent film “The Artist,” which led the Globes with six nominations, won the musical-score prize for composer Ludovic Bource but lost out on best screenplay for director-writer Michel Hazanavicius.
Woody Allen won the screenplay honor for his romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris,” the filmmaker’s biggest hit in decades. Never a fan of movie awards, Allen was a no-show at the Globes, where he previously won the screenplay honor for 1985’s “The Purple Rose of Cairo.
The prize for best animated film went to Steven Spielberg’s action tale “The Adventures of Tintin,” a Paramount-Sony co-production that dealt the first Globes loss to Disney unit Pixar Animation. Pixar films such as “Ratatouille,” ”WALL-E” and “Toy Story 3” had won all five previous times since the Globes added the category.
The Iranian drama “A Separation” was chosen as best foreign-language film. Writer-director Asghar Farhadi uses a divorcing couple’s domestic troubles with a young child and an aging parent as the means to examine gender, religious and class distinctions in contemporary Iran.
Among television winners were Britain’s Kate Winslet as best actress in a miniseries or movie in “Mildred Pierce” and Idris Elba as best actor in a miniseries or movie in “Luther,” Laura Dern as comedy or musical actress in “Enlightened,” Kelsey Grammer as dramatic actor in “Boss,” ”Homeland” for drama series and British series “Downton Abbey” for miniseries or movie.
Also, Morgan Freeman was honored with the Golden Globes’ annual Cecil B. DeMille award for his lifetime of incredible work in film and television
The Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of 89 entertainment reporters for overseas outlets.