‘Artist’and ‘Descendants’ shine at Golden Globes

The black-and-white silent film ‘The Artist’ led the Golden Globes with three wins on Sunday at a show that spread Hollywood’s love around among a broad range of films, including best drama recipient ‘The Descendants’ and its star, George Clooney.

Wins for ‘The Artist’ included best musical or comedy and best actor in a musical or comedy for Jean Dujardin. Along with best drama, ‘The Descendants’ won the dramatic-actor Globe for Clooney. Other acting winners were Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, and Octavia Spencer. Martin Scorsese earned the directing honour.’I gotta thank everybody in England that let me come and trample over their history,’ said Streep, earning her eighth Globe, this time as dramatic actress for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.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.Kate Winslet won for her acting in ‘Mildred Pierce’, playing a strong-willed divorcee in Depression-era California in the remake of the Joan Crawford classic. Idris Elba, who plays the detective John Luther in BBC America’s ‘Luther’, won the Globe for best actor in a TV movie or mini-series.ITV’s ‘Downton Abbey’ won best for best TV mini-series or movie.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 for ‘Some Like It Hot’.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’.Scorsese won for the Paris adventure ‘Hugo’- the third directing Globe in the last 10 years for Scorsese.Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures of Tintin’, based on a series of Belgian picture books begun 80 years ago, won for best animated film, while the Iranian tale ‘A Separation’ was named the foreign-language winner.Claire Danes won her third Globe for portraying CIA agent Carrie Mathison on Showtime’s new ‘Homeland’.The series, which explored terrorism and an Iraq war veteran, also won a Golden Globe for best television drama.- Nampa-AP