US: The race for the Oscars turned into a three-way contest on Sunday when The Aviator, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby took top Golden Globe Awards.
The Golden Globes, given out by the 93-member Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are Hollywood's first major show of the awards season.
Veteran director Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, about the life of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, earned three Globes - best film drama, best dramatic actor for Leonardo DiCaprio playing Hughes, and best original score.
Scorsese lost best director honours to Clint Eastwood, whose female boxing drama Million Dollar Baby has been a hit with critics. The movie also earned Hilary Swank the Golden Globe for best dramatic actress.
Sideways had been the most nominated movie with seven overall to six for The Aviator. Sideways won two awards, for best musical or comedy and for best screenplay.
Jamie Foxx won the award for best actor in a musical or comedy for Ray, playing blind soul singing legend Ray Charles, who died last year.
Closer, about two cheating couples, also earned two Golden Globes, Clive Owen was named best supporting actor and Natalie Portman took the best supporting actress prize.
Spain's The Sea Inside, about a quadriplegic's battle to take his own life, was named best foreign language film.
In television, Nip/Tuck, about the lives of two plastic surgeons, was named best drama, while Desperate Housewives, a satire about women dealing with lovers, husbands, families and murder, was named best comedy. Teri Hatcher from Desperate Housewives was best actress in a TV comedy.
Jason Bateman was best actor in a comedy show for Arrested Development, while Ian McShane was best actor in a TV drama for Deadwood.
Mariska Hargitay was best actress in a TV drama for her role as a police investigator in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, while The Life and Death of Peter Sellers was named best TV mini-series or movie, and it earned Australian actor Geoffrey Rush the award for best actor in a TV mini-series or movie.