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Summary The Hawaii-based drama also took best actor for Clooney, while French-directed The Artist.
Family drama The Descendants starring George Clooney won the top prize at the Golden Globes on Sunday, while silent film The Artist garnered the most prizes, with gongs in three categories.The Hawaii-based drama also took best actor for Clooney, while French-directed The Artist won best score and best actor in a musical or comedy film at the Globes, Hollywoods main pre-Oscars awards show.Meryl Streep won best actress for her mesmerizing portrayal of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, while best director went to Martin Scorsese for his 3D adventure Hugo.Our quarterback was George Clooney, said The Descendants producer Jim Burke, accepting the award at the climax of the three-hour Globes show at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.The movie missed out in the screenplay category to Woody Allens Midnight in Paris, was beaten for supporting actress by Octavia Spencer in The Help, and best director where Scorsese won for Hugo.The Artist, which had garnered the most Globes nominations with nods in six categories, won one more award than The Descendants, with three Globes: for best musical/comedy film, best actor and best musical score.But it was beaten for best director by Scorsese for Hugo, for best supporting actress by Spencer in civil rights movie The Help, and best screenplay by Allens box office and critical hit Midnight in Paris.The film, billed as a tribute to the silent movie era, tells the story of silent star George Valentin (played by Dujardin) whose career is torpedoed by the arrival of the talkies.It won best film and best director at the New York Film Critics Circle awards in November, and has garnered a string of nods since -- including this week from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), seen as a key Oscars indicator.It won yet another prize just three days before the Globes, taking the Critics Choice best film award in Los Angeles on Thursday.Other winners Sunday night included Michelle Williams as best actress in a musical or comedy for her Monroe turn in My Week with Marilyn, and best supporting actor for Christopher Plummer in Beginners.Best animated feature went to Spielbergs big screen version of the Belgian cartoon book hero, The Adventures of Tintin.Best foreign language movie went to A Separation from Iran, which beat films from China and Belgium as well Spanish Pedro Almodovars The Skin I Live In, and Angelina Jolies directoral debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey.The first prize of the evening for The Artist was for best original score, for Ludovic Bource, who apologized, saying Im sorry, Im French, before pulling out a piece of paper and reading his acceptance speech.Madonna, who won best original song a short time later, appeared to forget her words initially, saying: This is a surprise, before adding, after a pause: Im not French, I have no excuse.British comic Ricky Gervais, hosting for the third straight year despite ruffling feathers at last years show, was again on provocative form although perhaps not quite as near-the-bone as 12 months ago.So, where was I? he opened the show with, before taking an early stab at the Globes themselves.Its just like the Oscars without the esteem, he said, adding: The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton to groans from the star-studded audience.
