63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards

the Golden Globes has ended...

as expected, Brokeback Mountain was the biggest winner, winning four of its seven nominations, receiving recognition in Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Director (Lee Ang), Best Song (A Love That Will Never Grow Old) and Best Screenplay...

Memoirs Of A Geisha lost out in the Best Actress category (for Ziyi Zhang) but won in the Best Original Score for John Williams... i did enjoy the music in the movie... the Best Actress Drama award went to Felicity Huffman (Transamerica) while Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) was the Best Actor...

yet on the Asian front, both The Promise and Kung Fu Hustle failed to grab the Globe for Best Foreign Film... the award went to Paradise Now, a Palestine movie... next time, Stephen Chow / Chen Kaige...

both Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix of Walk The Line won in the Best Supporting Actress and Actor awards for a Musical / Comedy respectively... Walk The Line also won the Best Motion Picture Musical / Comedy...

Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and George Clooney (Syriana) won in the Best Supporting Actress and Actor awards for a Drama respectively...

Desperate Housewives won the Best TV Series Musical / Comedy but lost out in the Best Actress in a TV Series Musical / Comedy, despite garnering four out of the five nominations in that category... the award went to Mary-Louise Parker for her performance in Weeds... God works in His mysterious ways...

the much-talked about TV Series, Lost, went home with the Best TV Series Drama award...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers was crowned Best Actor in a Mini Series for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in Elvis...

Anthony Hopkins (of Silence Of The Lambs fame) received the lifetime achievement award... well deserved...

for the full list of winners, please visit 2006 Golden Globe Winners