A 'BEAUTIFUL' NIGHT CROWE, SPACEK CAPTURE BEST ACTING AWARDS FOR FILM DRAMAS.Byline: Glenn Whipp Film Writer ``A Beautiful Mind'' and ``Moulin moulin (m  lăN`): see pothole. Rouge'' emerged as Oscar front- runners, winning best picture honors in their respective categories Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. at the 59th annual Golden Globes ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. ``A Beautiful Mind,'' the story of schizophrenic genius John Nash, won four Globes: best drama, best actor/drama (Russell Crowe), supporting actress supporting actress n → attrice f non protagonista (Jennifer Connelly) and screenplay (Akiva Goldsman). Crowe's reinforces the actor's chances for back-to-back Oscars, following his win for ``Gladiator'' last year. Said Crowe: ```A Beautiful Mind' is just a movie ... but hopefully it helps open our minds and give us a little more understanding and compassion and, hopefully, the belief that in our lives something extraordinary can always happen.'' ``Moulin Rouge'' won three awards, including best comedy/musical, best comedy/musical actress (Nicole Kidman) and best score. Baz Luhrmann's hyperkinetic hyperkinetic pertaining to or marked by hyperkinesia. hyperkinetic episodes see Scottie cramp. hyperkinetic circulatory disorders musical began the awards season as anything but a sure bet but is gradually emerging as a solid contender. The Globes, voted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, have become highly predictive in recent years of Oscar winners. ``This is really, really special because I never thought I'd be in a musical - let alone win an award for one,'' said Kidman, who played a singer at the infamous Paris nightspot in 1900 and has won a 1996 Globe for ``To Die For.'' Kidman was nominated in two acting categories but missed a chance for dual honors when Sissy Spacek Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. Biography Early life Spacek was born in Quitman, Texas to Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent, and Virginia Frances (Spilman). won the best actress/drama Globe for ``In the Bedroom.'' Spacek has won virtually every critics prize and appears an Oscar shoo-in. This is not her first Globe. She won in 1981 for ``Coal Miner's Daughter,'' for which she also won the Oscar and in 1987 for ``Crimes of the Heart.'' ``I feel so blessed to get to do what I love to do and work with so many wonderfully talented people,'' Spacek said. Gene Hackman was a no-show best comic actor winner for playing the apologetic patriarch in Wes Anderson's wry ``The Royal Tenenbaums.'' When presenter Renee Zellweger said that Hackman had ``missed his connections in the Caribbean,'' the camera spotted lifetime achievement winner Harrison Ford flashing a dubious grin that all but said, ``Yeah, right.'' Ford may not have smiled once during the lengthy career retrospective blandly narrated by presenter Ben Affleck. Alternating between bemusement be·muse tr.v. be·mused, be·mus·ing, be·mus·es 1. To cause to be bewildered; confuse. See Synonyms at daze. 2. To cause to be engrossed in thought. and discomfort, the famously self-contained actor kept his speech short, unlike the past three rambling honorees - Barbra Streisand Noun 1. Barbra Streisand - United States singer and actress (born in 1942) Barbra Joan Streisand, Streisand , Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22 1937), known as Jack Nicholson, is a three time Academy Award winning American actor internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. . ``I'm lucky to be in a category where the competition is dead,'' the 59- year-old Ford deadpanned. He added that he wrote two speeches: a short one (``thank you'') and a long one (``thank you very much''). And he didn't say much beyond that (``Much of what I have learned about life I have learned in the business of making movies''), gracefully saluting his peers before exiting the stage. Asked backstage what he was thinking while watching the film clips of his career, Ford said, ``I wondered why I wasn't better in what I was saying. It's very hard to look back over a period of time and be happy with what you're doing. The pleasure of this job is in the doing.'' Jennifer Connelly cemented her Oscar front-runner status in the supporting actress category, winning for her performance as Alicia, the sympathetic, long-suffering spouse of John Nash in ``A Beautiful Mind.'' Connelly won an the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase award earlier this month. Jim Broadbent, meanwhile, boosted his Oscar chances considerably, winning the supporting actor award for his turn as the literary critic John Bayley, another sympathetic, long-suffering spouse (notice a trend here?) of novelist Iris Murdoch in ``Iris.'' It's Broadbent's second prize of the award season, having earlier won supporting actor from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association both for ``Iris'' and for his work as the heady ringleader ring·lead·er n. A person who leads others, especially in illicit or informal activities. ringleader Noun a person who leads others in illegal or mischievous actions Noun 1. who sang ``Like a Virgin'' in ``Moulin Rouge.'' Robert Altman, 76, won directing honors for the ensemble whodunit comedy of manners comedy of manners Witty, ironic form of drama that satirizes the manners and fashions of a particular social class or set. Comedies of manners were usually written by sophisticated authors for members of their own social class, and they typically are concerned with social ``Gosford Park.'' ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what a best director is, except that it's someone who stands in the same space with the best actors,'' said Altman, who won his first Globe after four other nominations. ``I feel that they do the work and I get to watch. And nothing is better than that.'' The television awards went somewhat to form, with the HFPA HFPA Hollywood Foreign Press Association HFPA Health Facility Planning Agency (US Army) HFPA Home Furnishings Professionals Association again honoring ``Sex and the City'' and its lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who, in her acceptance speech, thanked the ``city of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , who is indeed the fifth lady.'' Charlie Sheen inherited Michael J. Fox's (his predecessor on ``Spin City'') golden touch, winning best actor in a television comedy. Sheen, newly engaged, thanked fiancee Denise Richards, who had a dream predicting he would win. ``This is so surreal,'' reformed party boy Sheen said. ``It's like a sober acid trip.'' Straight arrows Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg accepted the best miniseries honors for producing HBO's ``Band of Brothers.'' From the podium, Hanks said simply that they wanted to honor the real-life members of the unit portrayed in the series, men ``who are either at home or in heaven.'' But HFPA members showed again that they can be ahead of the curve (and Emmy voters), honoring HBO's quirky ``Six Feet Under'' as best drama. Other surprises came in the dramatic acting categories, with Kiefer Sutherland in ``24'' on Fox and Jennifer Garner of ``Alias'' on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. taking top honors. Both series have won raves from critics but achieved only moderate commercial success. ``I'm really glad I had the first glass of wine - I'm kind of regretting the second,'' Garner joked during her acceptance speech. Sutherland, joining Charlie Sheen as a second generation Hollywood winner, said he had ``just lost complete feeling in my lower half,'' and that he was ``in shock.'' Playing Hollywood icons also was a plus. Judy Davis won the miniseries actress award for ABC's ``Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows'' and James Franco took home the miniseries actor prize for TNT's ``James Dean.'' CAPTION(S): 11 photos, 3 boxes Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Russell Crowe won best actor in a motion picture drama for ``A Beautiful Mind,'' while Sissy Spacek won best dramatic actress for ``In The Bedroom.'' Chris Haston/NBC (3 -- 4 -- color) Nicole Kidman, left, accepts her award for ``Moulin Rouge.'' Right, Jennifer Connelly shows off her prize for ``A Beautiful Mind.'' Chris Haston/NBC Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (5 -- color) The women of ``Sex and the City'' bask in the glory of the HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy hit's top honors as best musical or comedy series on television. (6 -- color) Harrison Ford was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Noun 1. Cecil B. DeMille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) Cecil Blount DeMille, DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 59th annual Golden Globe awards. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (7 -- color) Stars drape drape v. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds. n. A cloth arranged over a patient's body during an examination or treatment or during surgery, designed to provide a sterile field around the area. themselves in dark glamour - with a few sparkling exceptions, such as Andie MacDowell, left. (8 -- color) Kiefer Sutherland ``24'' (9 -- color) Jennifer Garner ``Alias'' (10 -- color) Charlie Sheen ``Spin City'' (11 -- color) Sarah Jessica Parker ``Sex and the City'' Box: (1) OTHER BIG WINNERS (2) THE WINNERS (3) (Quotes) |
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