'Rings' Rules at Golden Globes
Jan. 26 -- Hobbits ruled the Golden Globes on Sunday as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won four trophies including best dramatic film.
Lost in Translation, a story of two lonely Americans whofind friendship in a Tokyo hotel, collected three awards, includingbest comedy film, best comedy actor for Bill Murray and bestscreenplay for Sofia Coppola, who wrote, produced and directed thefilm.
Rings master Peter Jackson was recognized as best director,and the film won two musical awards.
"I never realized that seven years on this movie would end upturning me into a Hobbit," Jackson said, referring to theshortish, big-footed magical characters in the J.R.R. Tolkienstories. "To all of the actors, our magical cast, you just gave somuch to the movies and equally importantly you made it so much funto work on." Theron’s Killer Role Hailed
Among TV nominees, HBO's six-hour adaptation of playwright TonyKushner's Angels in America won five trophies, including bestminiseries or TV movie.
But movies gathered most of the attention as Sean Penn collectedbest movie drama actor for playing an emotionally ravaged fatherseeking revenge for his daughter's murder in Mystic River, andCharlize Theron won the drama actress honor for Monster, thestory of a prostitute serial killer.
Theron thanked writer-director Patty Jenkins for believing shecould play the role: "There's only so much you can do, but ifsomebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
Murray thanked Coppola and went on to dryly mock Hollywood awardspeeches, declaring he had fired all his agents and representativesand had no one else to thank.
He also poked fun at the idea that comedy performers areovershadowed by dramatic stars. "Too often we forget our brotherson the other side of the aisle — the dramatic actors," he said.
"I'd just like to say: Where would our war, our miseries and ourpsychological traumas come from?"
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