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Golden Globes: Avatar wins best picture in it’s category
LIFESTYLE — By MainStreetMantra Desk on January 16, 2010 at 5:00 pm
BEST FILM DRAMA!
Blockbuster sci-fi epic Avatar has been named best film drama at the Golden Globe awards, boosting its chances of further glory at the Oscars in March. Its director James Cameron was also honoured at the event, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep won the best actress prizes, with Jeff Bridges and Robert Downey Jr taking home their male equivalents. Ricky Gervais hosted the event, the first of 2010’s major Hollywood awards.
Presented each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Globes often indicate who and what will go on to receive Academy Awards. Television shows are also celebrated at the gala, where prizes are divided between dramas and comedies or musicals.
Cameron’s double victory was a vindication of the 55-year-old’s faith in his ambitious and costly computer-generated fantasy. His best director prize also saw him triumph over his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, nominated in the same category for Iraq drama The Hurt Locker.
“This is the best job in the world,” he said as Avatar was named best film. “What we do is make entertainment for a global audience.” The Canadian film-maker previously won a Golden Globe for directing Titanic, which went on to win 11 Academy Awards in 1998.
But he steered clear of the self-aggrandising language of his “king of the world” Oscar acceptance speech, heaping praise upon Bigelow, and addressing his actors in Na’vi, the language created for his blockbuster film.
As Cameron accepted his prizes, it was revealed that Avatar had remained top of the US box office for a fifth week. Worldwide takings for the film now stand at $1.6 bn (£979m), setting it on course to top Titanic’s $1.8 bn (£1.1bn) haul this week – which would make it the top-grossing film of all time.
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