LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - The hyperactive musical Moulin
Rouge was named best musical or comedy movie and took two other awards at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony. A Beautiful Mind won best drama, as well as the best actor award for Russell Crowe, who portrayed schizophrenic mathematician John Nash.
Crowe eloquently thanked director Ron Howard for allowing his actors to be adventurous.
"A Beautiful Mind is just a movie; it's just a piece of entertainment at the end of the day folks," said the Oscar-winning actor. "But hopefully it helps us open our hearts, gives us a little more understanding, it gives us a little more compassion."
Nicole Kidman claimed the award for best actress in a musical or comedy at Sunday's Golden Globes, while Gene Hackman won best comedic film actor honours.
"My hands are shaking," said Kidman, who starred as a cabaret singer in the hyperactive Moulin Rouge. "This is really, really special because I never thought I'd be in a musical - let alone win an award for one."
The film also won best picture in the musical or comedy category.
Hackman, who couldn't make it to the ceremony, won for his performance as the conniving head of a family of former child prodigies in The Royal Tenenbaums.
An emotional Sissy Spacek won best actress in a drama for In The Bedroom.
"I feel so blessed to get to do what I love to do and work with so many wonderfully talented people," Spacek said. "The best part is I get to go home to my most precious family."
Supporting actor honours went to performers who played supportive spouses in two true-life dramas about ailing geniuses - Jennifer Connelly for portraying the dedicated wife of Nash in A Beautiful Mind and Jim Broadbent for playing the husband of novelist Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, in Iris.
"It's really shocking," Connelly said backstage. "It's kind of hard for me right now to wrap my head around."
A Beautiful Mind also won best screenplay.
Robert Altman was best director for Gosford Park, and the Bosnian film No Man's Land won best foreign language picture.
The ceremony, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is considered by some to be a barometer for the Academy Awards in March.
Picture - Drama
A Beautiful Mind
Produced by Brian Grazer
Picture - Musical or Comedy
Moulin Rouge!
Produced by Fred Baron,
Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann
Actor In a Leading Role - Drama
Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind
Actor In a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy
Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums
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Actress In a Leading Role - Drama
Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom
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Actress In a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy
Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!
Actor In a Supporting Role
Jim Broadbent in Iris
Actress In a Supporting Role
Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind
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Director
Robert Altman for Gosford Park
Screenplay
A Beautiful Mind
Original Score
Moulin Rouge!
Composed by
Craig Armstrong
Original Song
"Until�"
From Kate & Leopold
Music and Lyric by Sting
Foreign Film
No Man's Land
From Bosnia & Herzegovina
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Harrison Ford
Television Series - Drama
Six Feet Under
Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Sex and the City
Mini-Series or Television Movie
Band Of Brothers
Actor In a Leading Role - Drama Series
Kiefer Sutherland in 24
Actor In a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series
Charlie Sheen in Spin City
Actor In a Leading Role - Mini-Series or Television Movie
James Franco in
James Dean
Actress In a Leading Role - Drama Series
Jennifer Garner in Alias
Actress In a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy Series
Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City
Actress In a Leading Role - Mini-Series or Television Movie
Judy Davis in Life With Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows
Actor In a Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie
Stanley Tucci in Conspiracy
Actress In a Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie
Rachel Griffiths in Six Feet Under
