Ronan is shortlisted for Best Actress in a Film Drama for her role in Little Women.

Leave it to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to turn some of Hollywood’s sorest subjects into punch lines.

Birdman has topped the nominations for the Golden Globes, flying away with a leading seven nods, including best picture in the comedy or musical category.

The major honours at the Golden Globes ended up with the favourites as American Hustle won three awards, but 12 Years A Slave concluded the night as best film drama.

Keith Barry hacks your brain and Grey’s Anatomy returns.

Kate Winslet is "extremely surprised" to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award just days after welcoming her third child.

The searing historical epic 12 Years a Slave and the con-artist caper American Hustle lead the 71st annual Golden Globes with seven nominations each.

'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' lead the Golden Globes 2014 nominations with seven nods each.

The Golden Globe Awards will honour Woody Allen for his contributions to film-making.

* Lily Collins dazzled onlookers at Hollywood premiere of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The star wore a stunning white dress with asymmetrical cut outs by Cushnie et Ochs and Giuseppe Zanotti shoes.

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Steven Spielberg’s US Civil War epic Lincoln led the Golden Globes with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg, and acting honours for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.

High class costume drama Downton Abbey was among a clutch of British winners at this year’s Golden Globes, scooping the award for best television mini series.

Ricky Gervais showed no signs of toning down his act as he embarked on his third stint as the scathing steward of the Golden Globes.

WHAT will Ricky Gervais say and about whom will he say it?

Ricky Gervais must submit his script before hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday.

ACTORS Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson have been nominated for Golden Globe Awards while Irish drama Albert Nobbs, which was filmed in Dublin, has received three nominations.

Ricky Gervais is returning as host of the Golden Globes.

Ricky Gervais is returning as host of the Golden Globes.

Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman is to take home a new prize – a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes.

Ricky Gervais looks set to host the Golden Globes for a third time.

Organisers of Hollywood’s Golden Globes awards denied comedian Ricky Gervais’ claim that they had asked him to host the event for a third year.

Ricky Gervais has been invited back to host the Golden Globes a third time.

Comedian Ricky Gervais insisted today he was just doing his job when he mocked celebrity targets and even the sponsor of the Golden Globe Awards he was hosting.

The comedian Ricky Gervais caused controversy when he hosted the awards ceremony on Sunday night by ridiculing several top Hollywood stars.

Ricky Gervais has defended delivering a string of harsh put-downs while hosting the Golden Globes.

British actor Colin Firth was celebrating today after he was named best actor at the Golden Globes.

Colin Firth is hot favourite to be the big winner at tonight's Golden Globes.

Longtime friend and collaborator Robert De Niro presented Martin Scorsese with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes last night.

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.

Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and "Avatar" star Sam Worthington are joining the list of celebrity presenters at the Golden Globe Awards.

Irish actors fared well at last night's Golden Globe awards, with Colin Farrell pipping his 'In Bruges' co-star Brendan Gleeson to win the gong for best actor in a musical or comedy and Gabriel Byrne taking the best actor in a television drama category for US psychotherapy show 'In Treatment'.

After Hollywood’s writers’ dispute shut down last year’s Golden Globes movie awards celebration, the 66th annual event makes a glitzy return today.

The Academy Awards picture should begin to grow clearer today as contenders are announced for Hollywood’s Oscar prelude, the Golden Globes.

British film 'Atonement' was named best film at a toned-down Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles today.

Striking Hollywood writers have decided not to picket tomorrow’s Golden Globe Awards after organisers changed it from an exclusive TV broadcast to an event open to all media.

Organisers of the Oscars insisted the show would go on next month despite the Golden Globe ceremony being cancelled due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.

The traditional Golden Globe Awards ceremony has been scrapped over a boycott threat by stars, to be replaced with a news conference format, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said today.

The Golden Globes and broadcasting giant NBC is poised to scrap the traditional show format to be picketed by striking writers, in favour of a news conference approach, a person close to the awards said.

Hollywood stars like Julia Roberts, Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp look set to boycott next weekend's Golden Globes ceremony to show their support to striking writers.

The union representing striking Hollywood writers has denied requests to allow their members to write for the Oscars and the Golden Globes.

Steven Spielberg will become the first director to claim the coveted Cecil B. DeMille Award this century when he claims the prize at the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Complete list of winners at the 64th annual Golden Globes presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, California.

THE cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain led the Golden Globes in Los Angeles with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honour for Ang Lee.

Cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain led the Golden Globes in Los Angeles yesterday with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honour for Ang Lee.

CILLIAN MURPHY and Pierce Brosnan were nominated in the best actor category yesterday as gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain swept the boards at the Golden Globes with seven nominations.

Brokeback Mountain, the story of forbidden love between two cowboys, is emerging as the front runner for a best-picture Golden Globe nomination today.

George Clooney has put his name forward for an Oscar as a potential Best Supporting Actor winner.