Winslet wins Golden Globe for best actress

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:01 am

Kate Winslet won the Golden Globe for best actress in a dramatic film on for her role as an unhappy housewife in “Revolutionary Road.” As well as the best supporting-actress Golden Globe for “The Reader,” in which she plays a former Nazi concentration camp guard in a romantic fling with a teenager.

The Globe win could boost Winslet’s prospects for the same prize at the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out January 22. Winslet has been nominated five times at the Oscars but has yet to win.

“You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things,” Winslet said as she opened what she acknowledged was a long acceptance speech.

“Sorry this is going on a bit, but I’m going to make the most of it,” she said amid thanking everyone from her children to the film’s makeup artists.

Bruce Springsteen won the best song prize for the title track to “The Wrestler.”

“This is the only time I’m going to be in competition with Clint Eastwood,” said Springsteen, referring to the
filmmaker who had a song nomination for writing the title tune to his “Gran Torino.”

“It felt pretty good, too.”

A year ago, Hollywood labour strife shut down the Globes, but organizers promised their show would be back, bigger and better than ever.

Fans will find out as the 66th annual Globes, the town’s second-biggest movie celebration after the Academy Awards, return in their somewhat boozy glory.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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Winslet wins Golden Globe for best actress

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