- Title: USA: GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
- Date: 23rd January 2003
- Summary: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (January 19, 2003) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR MARTIN SCORSE SAYING "The films I have made deal with societies or groups of people that actually violence is very much an option but a necessity in most cases. That's the way they lived. And I have to be honest with that. I have to be honest to them. I have to be honest t
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- Location: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Entertainment,General
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- Story Text: In one of the tightest races in recent years, "The Hours" won the Golden Globe award for best drama on Sunday (January 19) while musical "Chicago" swept two top acting categories and took the trophy for best musical or comedy victories many believe are an indicator of likely winners at the upcoming Oscars.
In one of the tightest races in recent years, "The Hours"
won the Golden Globe award for best drama while musical "Chicago" swept two top acting categories and took the trophy for best musical or comedy.
Jack Nicholson won his sixth Golden Globe for best dramatic actor as a retired and lonely insurance actuary wondering whether his life was wasted in "About Schmidt." Nicholson said, "I don't know whether to be happy or ashamed because I thought we made a comedy." Nicole Kidman also claimed her third Golden Globe for best actress playing suicidal British writer Virginia Woolfe as she sits down to pen her classic novel, "Mrs. Dalloway."
"I just know that I have an enormous sense of respect for her and love for Virigina and to be able to capture some of her essence and put it on screen was really special for me," said Kidman backstage.
Richard Gere, who plays a slick lawyer tap dancing around a jury to help Renee Zellweger's character beat a murder rap, won the trophy for best actor in a musical or comedy and Zellweger took the honour for best actress in a musical or comedy.
"I don't win anything. I never win," said an apparently astonished Gere after taking the stage to accept his award. "And I didn't even want to do this movie."
The movie categories, however, enjoy the spotlight at the Golden Globe Awards because they come at the start of a long awards-show season in Hollywood and are often a strong indicator of who will win Oscars, the film industry's top honours handed out in March. Victories for "The Hours" and "Chicago" catapulted the movies to the top of the Oscar list.
Comedy "Adaptation" took two early Golden Globes for Meryl Streep as best supporting actress and her co-star Chris Cooper as best supporting actor, and legendary director Martin Scorsese was given his due with a best director trophy for his epic "Gangs of New York." Backstage, Scorsese was asked about the high level of violence in his films. "I have to be honest with that. I have to be honest to them. I have to be honest to that world that I'm trying to depict. I tried to do it differently in "Gangs of New York" because in a world like that, every day was filled with violence."
Streep, who has won three Golden Globes and been nominated many times before, also appeared to be genuinely surprised at winning a best supporting actress Golden Globe.
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's quirky drama "Talk to Her" was named best foreign language film.
"I honestly think the people and the audience in general have embraced the movie with a complete lack of prejudice toward me and the way the American audience behaves toward my movies," said Almodovar backstage.
In television, "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston was named best actress in a TV comedy and she took the stage walking with a cane due to a broken toe. Of her success, Aniston says "I attribute it all to the writers. Rachel has grown up beautifully and they've rounded her out and given her a life, interesting experiences, life experiences and given me a lot fun stuff to play." - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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