The Golden Globes: “Slumdog” Takes Four, Winslet Takes Two by Eugene Hernandez (January 12, 2009)
A scene from "Slumdog Millionaire," winner of the best picture (drama) award tonight. Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight.
Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” led the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, taking awards for best motion picture drama, best director (Boyle), best screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and best musical score (A.R. Rahman). Its wins were overshadowed only by the unprecedented double-acting win of Kate Winslet for both best actress (drama) in “Revolutionary Road” and best supporting actress in “The Reader.” Other major winners included “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” for best motion picture comedy or musical and Mickey Rourke for best actor (drama) in “The Wrestler,” the only other double winner (it also took a trophy for best song). All of the acting winners were first time Globe winners (except Winslet, who technically had won previously for “Reader” when she won for “Road”), including Rourke, best actor (comedy or musical) Colin Farrell, best actress (comedy or musical) Sally Hawkins, and best supporting actor Heath Ledger. In fact, the only repeat winner was best original song winner Bruce Springsteen, who had won in the same category sixteen years ago for “Philadelphia”‘s “Streets of Philadelphia.” In relation to next months Academy Awards, notable is that neither of the Globe best picture winners have gone on to win best picture at the Oscars in the past three years (“Atonement,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Babel,” “Dreamgirls,” “The Aviator” and “Sideways”). However, in the lead acting categories, all Oscar winners have previously won a Golden Globe every year since 2002 (when Adrien Brody did not win a Globe). Winslet was the first winner of the night receiving her first of two awards. Thanking the late Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, producers of “The Reader,” Winslet said, “I hope they would have been proud.” And then, she breathlessly accepted the lead actress award, saying, “Thank you so much” twice, before pausing to compose herself and thank those involved. Crying as she thanked co-star Leonardo DiCaprio and then heaped praise on her husband, “Road” director Sam Mendes. “Thank you for directing this movie, babe…and for killing us every day,” Winslet said, “It’s made me love you more.”
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