Kate Winslet and Slumdog Millionaire combined to make it an extraordinary night for the Brits at the Golden Globes, winning all six of the awards they were nominated for, and making themselves firm favourites to take top honours at next month's Oscars.
The actress broke a long-running duck that has seen her unsuccessfully nominated for five Golden Globes and another five Oscars by winning a brace of prizes, including Best Actress in a Dramatic FilThe low-budget film, about a boy from the slums of Mumbai who wins the jackpot on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, continued a remarkable run of form that has seen it showered with awards, and propelled it relentlessly up the box office charts.
In total, a record 10 of this year's 25 Golden Globe trophies will go back to the British Isles, including the Best Actress in a Comedy prize which was scooped by the little-known London-born actress Sally Hawkins. Hawkins who is also no stranger to a wet handkerchief, upset the odds to beat Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson for her starring role in the Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky. Tom Wilkinson was honoured for his role in John Adams, an HBO mini-series about America's second president which won a total of four awards in the TV category of the awards. Irish stars Gabriel Byrne and Colin Farrell also won their first Globes, for the TV show In Treatment and the film In Bruges respectively.
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