“American Hustle” takes three Golden Globes

Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

Crime caper “American Hustle” has won three awards at the Golden Globes, including best film comedy or musical. Its female stars Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence also picked up best actress and supporting actress prizes for their roles in the 1970s-set movie.

Awardees Jennifer Lawrence with her Golden Globes

Loosely based on a real-life FBI sting operation, it tells of con men enlisted to bring down a corrupt politician.
Steve McQueen's historical tale “12 Years a Slave” received the top honour of the night, winning best film (drama). It was the only award the movie was given, after going into the evening with seven nominations. McQueen and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o had all received nods but came away from Sunday's event empty-handed.
Matthew McConaughey was named best actor in a drama for his role as Aids patient Ron Woodroof in “Dallas Buyers Club”. His co-star Jared Leto won the best supporting actor prize for his depiction of a transgender woman. Cate Blanchett collected the best actress in a drama award for her part as a disgraced socialite in Woody Allen's “Blue Jasmine”.

Leonardo DiCaprio with his Golden Globes

Leonardo DiCaprio, meanwhile, won best actor in a comedy or musical for “The Wolf of Wall Street”. Alfonso Cuaron was named best director for “Gravity” - the only award the space movie picked up on the night. The Mexican beat McQueen, “Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass, Alexander Payne for “Nebraska” and David O Russell for American Hustle to the director prize. The screenplay award went to Spike Jonze for “Her”, a romance about an office worker who falls in love with a computer-generated voice.
Italian film “The Great Beauty” won the title of best foreign language film, while Disney's “Frozen” took home the best animated feature award.
Robert Redford's film All is Lost won the best original score prize, while Irish band U2 won best original song for “Ordinary Love”, as featured in “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”.
The results come too late to affect this week's Academy Award nominations, for which ballots have already been cast. But the spread of results indicate that Oscar honours could well end up being shared between several films in March, rather than one movie sweeping the board.

Matthew McConaughey with his Golden Globes

Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra” was named best TV movie/mini-series, with Michael Douglas beating co-star Matt Damon to the best actor in a TV movie, series or mini-series prize. “Breaking Bad” also came away with two awards - best drama series and best actor in a drama for its star Bryan Cranston. Police caper “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” also collected two prizes - best comedy or musical TV series, and best actor in a comedy for Andy Samberg.
Ceremony co-host Amy Poehler won best actress in a TV comedy or musical for her role in “Parks and Recreation”, while “House of Cards” star Robin Wright was named best actress in a drama series.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosted the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the second year running, earning big laughs with jokes about George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep.

Source: BBC