U2 win best original song at Golden Globes
Scorsese was named best director while best original song went to U2 for their track, The Hands That Built America.
But it was two films packed with strong female roles that triumphed at the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards. The jazz-belting lady prisoners of Chicago won best musical-comedy and The Hours claimed best drama for its tale of women seeking solace in the work of suicidal author Virginia Woolf.
“I say to the writers, please keep writing for us, we are very interesting,” Nicole Kidman said after winning best dramatic actress. Kidman’s award marked her second Golden Globe in a row after her win last year for Moulin Rouge.
Chicago star Renee Zellweger won best musical-comedy actress for her role as murderer and wannabe cabaret singer Roxy Hart. Zellweger had a previous win in the category for 2001’s Nurse Betty.
Kidman and Zellweger each bested co-stars: Meryl Streep from The Hours and Catherine Zeta-Jones from Chicago. Streep did win supporting actress honours for playing a fictionalised version of author Susan Orlean in Adaptation.
The Golden Globes ceremony is considered by many to be a barometer for the upcoming Academy Award nominations next month.
The TV category for best drama and comedy marked an upset by edgy cable shows. The Shield won best TV drama, upsetting such major players as The Sopranos and The West Wing, and its star, Michael Chiklis, was named best actor in a drama series.
HBO’s acerbic sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm won best TV comedy series over Sex and the City, Friends The Simpsons and Will & Grace.
Nominated crowd-pleasing hits such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and My Big Fat Greek Wedding were shut out at the Globes.
Richard Gere won best comedy-musical actor for playing a flashy lawyer in Chicago, while best dramatic actor honours went to Jack Nicholson’s performance as a dishevelled retiree trying to change as he nears the end of his life in About Schmidt.
“I always do films that are a bit difficult and not down the middle of the street,” Nicholson said backstage, adding: “I threw out my vanity.”
Adaptation co-star Chris Cooper received the supporting actor prize for playing the stringy-haired and toothless orchid poacher chronicled in Orlean’s book.
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor won the screenplay award for About Schmidt, adapted from the novel by Louis Begley.
The Pedro Almodovar-directed Spanish drama Talk to Her, about two men in love with comatose women in the same hospital, was chosen best foreign film.
Gene Hackman accepted the Cecil B DeMille Award, which honours the star of The Conversation and Crimson Tide for his career spanning more than 80 films.
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