Stars gather for Golden Globes

Far-out fantasy and ripped-from-the-headlines reality are in the running at tonight’s Golden Globes – Hollywood’s first major film honours that will help sort out the Academy Awards picture.

Contenders for best drama include two wildly make-believe adventures, James Cameron’s science-fiction spectacle “Avatar” and Quentin Tarantino’s war story “Inglourious Basterds,” which rewrites the end of the Second World War with a gleefully vengeful bloodbath at a movie premiere.