British performers and filmmakers have triumphed at the annual Golden Globe awards in Los Angeles, winning in a number of categories including best film drama for the movie Slumdog Millionaire.
English director Danny Boyles heart-warming, rags-to-riches tale Slumdog Millionaire took four awards in total, an achievement made all the more remarkable1 by the fact that the films star Dev Patel had never acted in a movie before.
The Golden Globes are widely seen as indicators2 of possible Academy Award success, and Patel is now hoping the film will be nominated for an Oscar.
Speaking to the BBC, he said that an Oscar nomination3 would be so exciting.
Just to be part of the buzz is so cool. It's such a nice feeling to be part of the buzz, he added.
Awards ceremonies are always emotional occasions, and English actress Kate Winslet didnt disappoint, bursting into tears as she received awards for best actress in the film Revolutionary Road and best supporting actress for her role in The Reader.
Winslet paid tribute to her Revolutionary Road co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom she appeared in the film Titanic4, describing him as spectacular and telling him she loved him with all her heart.
British director ChrisTOPher Nolan, who directed the Batman film The Dark Knight5, accepted a posthumous6 supporting actor award on behalf of the late Heath Ledger7, who starred as the Joker in the film but died of an accidental prescription8 drug overdose before it was released.
Nolan told the audience that Ledger would be eternally missed but never forgotten, adding that everyone who accepted the award in Ledgers name did so with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride.
