George Clooney: Golden Globes’ Best Actor in Drama Winner

George Clooney won the Best Actor in Drama award for The Descendants during the 2012 Golden Globes.

“Thank you the Hollywood Foreign Press, to Fox Searchlight and especially thank you very much to Alexander Payne who makes wonderful films and is a great friends,” Clooney said during his acceptance speech.

Clooney beat out Brad Pitt (Moneyball), Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar), Ryan Gosling (The Ides of March) and Michael Fassbender (Shame).

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Jean Dujardin: Golden Globes’ Best Actor in Comedy Winner

Jean Dujardin nabbed the Best Actor in Comedy award for his role in The Artist during the 2012 Golden Globes.

The Artist is set in Hollywood in 1927. As silent movie star George Valentin (Dujardin) wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), a young dancer set for a big break.

Dujardin beat out Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), Owen Wilson (Midnight in Paris), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (50/50) and Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love).

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Martin Scorsese: Best Director Winner for Hugo

Martin Scorsese beat out George Clooney (The Ides of March), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Alexander Payne (The Descendants) and Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) for the Best Director award for Hugo during the 2012 Golden Globes.

Hugo, set in 1930s Paris, follows an orphan (Asa Buttterfield) who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

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Octavia Spencer: Best Supporting Actress Winner For The Help

Octavia Spencer won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in The Help during the 2011 Golden Globes.

“This is seriously nuts,” Spencer said during her acceptance speech. “Thank you the Hollywood Foreign Press and to the most amazing cast and crew.”

Spencer beat out Berenice Bejo (The Artist), Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs), Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) and her The Help co-star Jessica Chastain.

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Matt LeBlanc: Best TV Actor in Comedy Winner

Matt LeBlanc took home the Golden Globes award for his role in Episodes.

Here’s a synopsis of Episodes: British writer-producers Beverly and Sean Lincoln (Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan), have a wonderful marriage and a hit TV series to their credit. Things couldn’t be better. Until Merc Lapidus (John Pankow), a Hollywood network executive, gushes over their series at a gala. Merc is certain that a remake of the show will go over well with an American audience. After making the Lincolns a lucrative offer, they pack up and ship out to the States. It doesn’t take long for them to figure out that Hollywood is a place where deals are made and broken in the same breath. They soon find themselves holding on tight as creative control of their show starts to slip away from their hands. Merc ultimately dismisses the original star, an elder, distinguished, gentleman, for ‘Friends’ actor Matt LeBlanc, a charming, yet manipulative beast, with a grocery list of demands. Hollywood is not what the Lincolns had in mind, but Sean believes he can swim with the sharks. As for Beverly, she’d rather go back to the UK than deal with these Episodes.

Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), David Duchovny (Californication), Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory) and Thomas Jane (Hung) were also nominated.

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Claire Danes: Golden Globes’ Best Actress in a TV Drama

Claire Danes picked up the Best Actress award during the 2012 Golden Globes for her role in Showtime’s Homeland.

Danes beat out Mireille Enos (The Killing) Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Callie Thorne (Necessary Roughness).

“I first won this award when I was 15 in my so called life and I was so overwhelmed, and when I got backstage I was crying because I realized I forgot to thank my parents,” Danes said during her acceptance speech.

“I am just so lucky to have another opportunity to tell them how deeply and grateful I am to them. Thank you to my husband Hugh Dancy who keeps me sane and happy when I play someone who isn’t sane or happy. Thank you the writers for giving me this role which is so exquisite.

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Jessica Lange: Best Supporting Actress Winner for American Horror Story

Jessica Lange beat out Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) and Evan Rachel Wood (Mildred Pierce) for the Best Supporting Actress award in a TV, Movie or Miniseries for her role in American Horror Story.

“I want to thank FX,” Lange said in her Golden Globes acceptance speech.

“I would like to thank the great group of actors I have had the pleasure of working with. But more than anything, I want to thank the writers. I find it rare to find a peace of work that is really beautifully written and gives you something to do and it was certainly this.”

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Peter Dinklage: Best Supporting TV Actor Winner

Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage won the Best Supporting Actor award in the TV-Movie or Miniseries category during the 2012 Golden Globes.

Game of Thrones follows seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros.

Dinklage beat out Paul Giamatti (To Big to Fail), Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce), Tim Robbins (Cinema Verite) and Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family).

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Michelle Williams: Golden Globes’ Best Actress Winner for My Week With Marilyn

Michelle Williams has nabbed the Best Actress in Comedy award for her portrayal as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn during the 2012 Golden Globes.

“The person I most want to thank is my daughter, my little girl whose bravery and exuberance is an example I take to work every single day,” Williams said during her acceptance speech.

Jodie Foster (Carnage), Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), Charlize Theron (Young Adult) and Kate Winslet (Carnage) were also nominated.

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Idris Elba: Best Actor Winner for Luther TV Series

Idris Elba picked up the Golden Globes Best Actor award for his role in BBC’s Luther.

Luther follows the cases of a troubled yet brilliant English police detective, DCI John Luther (Elba). Separated from his wife, whom he loves passionately, he is torn between an unrelenting approach to solving serial killings and his attempts to rekindle his marriage.

During his acceptance speech, Elba said, “I want to thank Neil Cross who wrote the show, which is phenomenal and changed my life. I also want to thank my BBC family.

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Kelsey Grammer: Golden Globes’ Best Actor in TV Drama Winner

Kelsey Grammer took home the Best Actor in a TV Drama award for his role as Mayor Tom Kane in Starz’s The Boss.

The series follows Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder. Determined to remain in charge, Kane conceals the disease from everyone around him except his own physician, Dr Ella Harris.

Grammer beat out Steve Buschemi (Boardwalk Empire), Brian Cranston (Breaking Bad), Jeremy Irons (The Borgias) and Damian Lewis (Homeland).

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Kate Winslet Wins Best Actress in Miniseries for Mildred Pierce

Kate Winslet has won the Golden Globes Best Actress in a Miniseries award for her role in HBO’s Mildred Pierce.

“Thank you very much,” Winslet said during her acceptance speech. “Thank you for putting me in a category with such heavy weight actresses whom I feel honored to be standing beside.

“Mildred Pierce was a definition of a team effort and I want to share this with our brilliant team leader Todd Haynes,” she continued. “Thank you for giving me this part, thank you for giving me this experience. I learned things from you that I will remember for the rest of my life.

Edited: January 15th, 2012