Slumdog Millionaire, the British/ Indian movie based in the slums of Mumbai has won four Golden Globes, the biggest haul for the night.

Awards for Slumdog Millionaire were: best movie (drama), best director for Danny Boyle, best screenplay and best score. You can see my review here, and I can’t say enough how great it is to see it winning; this isn’t your typical Hollywood film, and that it can win like this bides well for the industry as a whole.

Other winners include Best Performing Actor gongs to Colin Farrell – In Bruges (Comedy or Musical), Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler (Drama); Best Actress: Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky (Comedy or Musical), Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road (Drama). Best Picture Comedy or Musical went to Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

As we reported earlier, Heath Ledger picked up the Golden Globe for The Dark Knight.

Other notable winners: Best animated feature film: Wall-E, and Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet – The Reader (her second award for the night).

In the TV awards, the HBO series Mad Men picked up best television series – drama and 20 Rock the best comedy award.

Slumdog Millionaire goes into the Academy Awards at the short priced favorite after a string of wins leading up to, and including the Golden Globes. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the Slumdog Millionaire Trailer.

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Heath Ledger has won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor this evening, making him a short priced favorite to pick up an Academy Award.

Christopher Nolan, Director of The Dark Knight accepted the award on behalf of Ledger:

“All of us who worked with Heath on ‘The Dark Night’ accept this with an awful mixture of sadness, but incredible pride.” While Nolan said Ledger’s passing represented “a hole ripped in the history of cinema,” he also pointed to “the incredible place in the history of cinema that he built for himself.” Nolan ended his remarks by saying, “He will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten.”

Ledger has been named best supporting actor of 2008 in the following awards this seasons: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Toronto Film Critics Association, and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

The honor comes just short of the first anniversary of Ledger’s 2008 death by accidental drug overdose.

(via THR)

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