He may not have scored an Oscar nomination for Best Director, but Ben Affleck was king of the Golden Globes last night as he won for directing Argo and the movie itself scored Best Drama at the award ceremony.
The winners elsewhere were more predictable, with Les Miserables taking home Best Comedy Or Musical, plus awards for Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. Daniel Day-Lewis nabbed a trophy for Lincoln; Amour won Best Foreign Language Film and a shocked Adele awarded Best Original Song for Skyfall.
In the TV section, it was another good night for Homeland, which got Best Drama Series with gongs for Claire Danes and Damian Lewis. Lena Dunham won with Girls, and Sarah Palin TV movie Game Change, which took best Miniseries Or Movie, saw Julianne Moore and Ed Harris both winning awards for their roles.
The event, now in its 70th year with awards handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was a much less controversial affair without Ricky Gervais hosting.
But Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pulled off a light, funny, sometimes subversive job – including fake nominees, cooing with George Clooney and letting Sacha Baron Cohen make offensive references in his speech presenting Best Animation Feature, which included him taking pot-shots at his co-stars. “Russell Crowe had four months of singing lessons,” he said, before adding sarcastically, “that was money well spent…”
Other notable events included Jodie Foster’s emotional acceptance of the Cecile B De Mille award, in which she essentially confirmed Hollywood’s most open secret about her personal life, and Bill Clinton arriving on stage to introduce Lincoln (Poehler announced him as "Hillary Clinton's husband!"). Oh, the power of former Empire guest editor Steven Spielberg...
The full list of winners is below:
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Argo
Django Unchained
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
**BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
****Les Miserables
**The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee - Life Of Pi
Steven Spielberg* -* Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
BEST ACTOR - MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
**Daniel Day-Lewis, **Lincoln
Richard Gere- Arbitrage
John Hawkes - The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washingto - Flight
BEST ACTRESS - MOTION PICTURE DRAMA
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard - Rust And Bone
Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
Naomi Watts - The Impossible
Rachel Weisz - The Deep Blue Sea
BEST ACTOR - MOTION PICTURE MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Jack Black - *Bernie
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
*Ewan McGregor - Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Bill Murray - Hyde Park On Hudson
**BEST ACTRESS - MOTION PICTURE MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*Jennifer Lawrence - S**ilver Linings Playbook
*Emily Blunt - *Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
*Judi Dench - *The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
*Maggie Smith - *Quartet
*Meryl Streep - Hope Springs
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained***
*Alan Arkin - *Argo
*Leonardo DiCaprio - *Django Unchained
*Philip Seymour Hoffman - *The Master
*Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - MOTION PICTURE
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables*
*Amy Adams - *The Master
*Sally Field - *Lincoln
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
*Nicole Kidman - The Paperboy
BEST SCREENPLAY
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Argo
**BEST ORIGINAL SONG
**Skyfall – Skyfall
For You – Act Of Valor
Not Running Anymore – Stand Up Guys
Safe And Sound – The Hunger Games
Suddenly – Les Misérables
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Life Of Pi
Argo
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour
A Royal Affair
The Untouchables
Kon-Tiki
Rust And Bone
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise Of The Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph
CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARD
Jodie Foster
TV
BEST TV SERIES - DRAMA
Homeland
Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
The Newsroom
BEST TV SERIES - COMEDY
Girls
The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Modern Family
Smash
BEST ACTOR - TV SERIES, DRAMA
**Damian Lewis - **Homeland
Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels - The Newsroom
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
BEST ACTRESS - TV SERIES DRAMA
Claire Danes - Homeland
Connie Britton - *Nashville
*Glenn Close - *Damages
*Michelle Dockery - *Downton Abbey
*Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife
BEST ACTOR - TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Kevin Costner - Hatfield & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock
Woody Harrelson - Game Change
Toby Jones - The Girl
Clive Owen - Hemingway & Gellhorn
**BEST ACTRESS - TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
*Julianne Moore - Game Change
*Nicole Kidman - *Hemingway & Gellhorn
*Jessica Lange - *American Horror Story: Asylum
*Sienna Miller - *The Girl
Sigourney Weaver - Political Animals*
BEST ACTOR IN A TV SERIES - COMEDY
Don Cheadle - House Of Lies*
*Alec Baldwin - *30 Rock
*Louis CK - Louie
Matt LeBlanc - Episodes
Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory
BEST ACTRESS - TV SERIES COMEDY
Lena Dunham - Girls
Zooey Deschanel - *New Girl
*Julia Louis-Dreyfus - *Veep
*Tina Fey - *30 Rock
*Amy Poehler - Parks And Recreation
BEST MINISERIES/TV MOVIE
Game Change
The Girl
Hatfield & McCoys
The Hour
Political Animals
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - SERIES, MINISERIES, MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
**Ed Harris, **Game Change
Max Greenfield - New Girl
Danny Houston - Magic City
Mandy Patinkin - Homeland
Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, SERIES, MINISERIES, MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey*
*Hayden Panettiere - Nashville
Archie Panjabi - *The Good Wife
*Sarah Paulson - *Game Change
*Sofia Vergara - Modern Family