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Golden Globes News Update: Mon 18th January, 2010

JAMES Cameron's Avatar is on its way to Oscar success after it took out the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture at the awards ceremony today.

The 3D film, which has made box office history by making more than $1 billion dollars features Australia's own Sam Worthington, who also presented an award at the star-studded event.

Cameron also won best director for a motion picture, beating the other favourite Quentin Tarantino for his work on Inglourious Basterds.

Australia's only Golden Globe winner Toni Collette took out the award for Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical for her role in United States of Tara.

Unfortunately, Australian nominees Simon Baker and Rose Byrne missed out on gongs for their roles in their hit US TV shows The Mentalist and Damages.

Host Ricky Gervais kept Hollywood's stars on the edge of their seats with his humour, as this year's Golden Globes continued to highlight the ongoing need to support victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Stars including Nicole Kidman and Maggie Gyllenhaal called on viewers to donate to charity appeals as gift bags worth thousands were being auctioned to celebrities to raise money for the Red Cross' work in disaster zone.

Today's Golden Gloves was a repeat of Cameron's Globes night 12 years ago, when Titanic won best drama and the directing prize on its way to dominating the Oscars.

This time, though, instead of being "king of the world," as Cameron declared at the Oscars, he has become king of an alien landscape, elevating space fantasy to enormous critical acclaim.

''Avatar asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each other, and us to the Earth. And if you have to go four and a half light years to another, made-up planet to appreciate this miracle of the world that we have right here, well, you know what, that's the wonder of cinema right there, that's the magic,'' Cameron said.

Winning the dramatic-acting honors were Sandra Bullock for the football tale The Blind Side and Jeff Bridges for the country-music story Crazy Heart.

The crowd gave a standing ovation to Bridges, a beloved veteran generally overlooked for key Hollywood honors.

"You're really screwing up my underappreciated status here,'' Bridges said.

The acting prizes for musical and comedy went to Meryl Streep for the Julia Child story Julie & Julia and Robert Downey Jr. for the crime romp Sherlock Holmes.

The supporting-performance Globes were won by Mo'Nique as an abusive welfare mother in Precious and Christoph Waltz as a gleefully bloodthirsty Nazi in Inglourious Basterds.

Downey thanked his frequent producing collaborator Joel Silver, the "guy that's only restarted my career 12 times since I began 25 years ago.''

The Vegas bachelor bash The Hangover won for best musical or comedy, bringing uncharacteristic awards attention for broad comedy, a genre that often gets overlooked at Hollywood honors.

"I just want to thank my mom, who supported my decision to become a director when she realized I wasn't as smart as my two sisters,'' said Hangover director Todd Phillips.

As he accepted the directing Globe, Cameron had kind words for ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, nominated as best director for The Hurt Locker.

"Frankly, I thought Kathryn was going to get this. She richly deserves it,'' said Cameron, whose Avatar has taken in $1.6 billion worldwide, second only to Titanic with $1.8 billion.

The Globes marked a dramatic turning point for Mo'Nique, who was mainly known for lowbrow comedy but startled audiences with her ferocious performance in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire.

Mo'Nique had gushing praise for Precious director Lee Daniels and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, a best dramatic actress nominee at the Globes with her first film role, playing Mo'Nique's abused, illiterate daughter.

"Lee Daniels, the world gets a chance to see how brilliant you are. You are a brilliant, fearless, amazing director who would not waver, and thank you for trusting me,'' Mo'Nique said. "To Gabby, sister, I am in awe of you. Thank you for letting me play with you.''

Streep's competition for best actress in a musical or comedy included herself. She also was nominated for the romance It's Complicated.

"I just want to say that in my long career, I've played so many extraordinary woman that I'm getting mistaken for one,'' Streep said. "I'm very clear that I'm the vessel for other people's stories and other people's lives.''

Waltz, a veteran Austrian actor who is a relative newcomer in Hollywood, won the supporting-actor Globe in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

"A year and a half ago I was exposed to the gravitational forces of Quentin Tarantino,'' Waltz said. "He took my modest little world, my globe, and with the power of his talent and his words and his vision, he flung it into its orbit, a dizzying experience.''

Though one of Hollywood's biggest parties, the Globes bore somber reminders of tragedy in the real world, many stars wearing ribbons in support of earthquake victims in Haiti.

The blockbuster Up came away with the award for animated film. Pixar Animation, the Disney outfit that made Up, has won all four prizes for animated movies since the Globes introduced the category in 2006. Past Pixar winners are WALL-E, Ratatouille and Cars.

Up features the voice of Ed Asner in a tale of a lonely, bitter widower who renews his zest for adventure by flying his house off under helium balloons to South America, where he encounters his childhood hero and a hilarious gang of talking canines.

"When it came to finding the heart of the film, we didn't have to look very hard,'' said Up director Pete Docter, whose film also won for musical score. "Our inspiration was all around us. Our grandparents, our parents, our wives, our kids. Our talking dogs.''

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won the screenplay honor for Up in the Air, which Reitman also directed. The foreign-language honor went to The White Ribbon, a stark drama of guilt and suspicion set in a German town on the eve of World War I.

Mad Men won for best TV drama, while Michael C. Hall won for best actor in a TV drama for Dexter, in which he plays a serial killer with a code of ethics, killing only other murderers. Hall's publicists revealed this past week that Hall is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and that the cancer is in remission.

"It's really a hell of a thing to go to work in a place where everybody gives a damn. That's really the case with Dexter,'' Hall said. "It's a dream job. I'm so grateful.''

Dexter also won the supporting-actor TV honor for John Lithgow. Other TV winners included Juliana Margulies as best actress in a drama for The Good Wife and Toni Collette as best comedy actress for The United States of Tara.

The Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 90 reporters covering show business for overseas outlets

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SEE THE NOMINEES AND WINNERS LIST BELOW:

Best Motion Picture, Drama
**Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Up in the Air

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
(500) Days of Summer
**The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Director - Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
**James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
**Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
**Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
**Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
** Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Julianne Moore, A Single Man

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy
Matt Damon, The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
**Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Julia Roberts, Duplicity
Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
** Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
District 9, Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
It's Complicated, Nancy Meyers
**Up in the Air, Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
** Up

Best Foreign Language Film
A Prophet
**The White Ribbon
The Maid
Baaria

Best Television Series, Drama
Big Love
Dexter
House
**Mad Men
True Blood

Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical
30 Rock
Entourage
**Glee
Modern Family
The Office

Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
** Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Bill Paxton, Big Love

Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
**Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Glenn Close, Damages
January Jones, Mad Men
Anna Paquin, True Blood
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical
**Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Thomas Jane, Hung
David Duchovny, Californication
Matthew Morrison, Glee

Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical
** Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Courteney Cox, Cougar Town
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Lea Michele, Glee

Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
** Grey Gardens
Into the Storm
Little Dorrit
Taking Chance
Georgia O'Keeffe

Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
**Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Kenneth Branagh, Wallander: One Step Behind
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Endgame
Brendan Gleeson, Into the Storm
Jeremy Irons, Georgia O'Keeffe

Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Joan Allen, Georgia O'Keeffe
**Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens
Anna Paquin, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Sigourney Weaver, Prayers for Bobby

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Michael Emerson, Lost
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
William Hurt, Damages
** John Lithgow, Dexter

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jane Adams, Hung
Rose Byrne, Damages
Jane Lynch, Glee
Janet McTeer. Into the Storm
**Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

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16th Screen Actor's Guild Award Show:

The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2009, will be presented on January 23, 2010 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fourteenth consecutive year. It will be broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.

Winners will be announced on Sunday 24th January, 2010 AEST.

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82nd Academy Awards Nominees Announcement / Dates

The ceremony will honor the best films of 2009 and will take place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
It will be televised in the United States on ABC. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will host the show. Martin will host for the third time, after previously presiding over the 73rd and 75th ceremonies, while Baldwin will host the show for the first time.

The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced live on Tuesday February 2, 2010, at 05:38AM PST (13:38 UTC) (08:38AM EST) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and a guest announcer.

On June 24, 2009, then-Academy president Sid Ganis announced at a press conference that there will be ten Best Picture nominees instead of five at the 2010 ceremony.