Wins at Golden Globes

Actress Meryl Streep poses backstage with the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for "The Iron Lady".

Mon, January 16, 2012 - 9:08 AM

The black-and-white silent film The Artist came away with the most prizes with three wins at the Golden Globes last night, but the show spread the love around among a broad range of films and TV shows.

Wins for The Artist included best musical or comedy and best actor in a musical or comedy for Jean Dujardin, while the family drama The Descendants claimed two awards, as best drama and dramatic actor for George Clooney.

Other acting winners were Meryl Streep , Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, and Octavia Spencer, while Martin Scorsese earned the directing honor.

Streep won for dramatic actress as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, her eighth win at the Globes.

Williams won for actress in a musical or comedy as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, 52 years after Monroe's win for the same prize at the Globes. Dujardin won for musical or comedy actor for the silent film The Artist.

The supporting-acting Globes went to Plummer as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in the father-son drama Beginners and Spencer as a brassy housekeeper joining other black maids to share stories about life with their white employers in the 1960s Deep South tale The Help.

Scorsese won for the Paris adventure Hugo. It was the third directing Globe in the last ten years for Scorsese, who previously won for Gangs of New York and The Departed and received the show's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement two years ago.

He won over a field of contenders that included Michel Hazanavicius, who had been considered by many in Hollywood as a favourite for his black-and-white silent film The Artist.