By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY
In what many critics are predicting could be a preview of February's Academy Awards best actress win, Anne Hathaway took home the Golden Globe Sunday night for best actress in a motion picture for her role as Fantine in "Les Miserables."
"Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt," Hathaway said. She went on to pay tribute to fellow nominee Sally Field, thanking Field for showing how an actress can progress from youthful comic roles to more serious parts.
Hathaway also thanked her mother, "who I saw perform this role when I was eight." Kathleen Hathaway played Fantine in the first U.S. tour of "Les Miserables,"
Showtime's "Homeland" series is nominated for four Golden Globes, and early on, was already halfway there. The show won for best television drama, and star Damian Lewis won for best actor in a TV drama.
Lewis dedicated his award to his late mother. "Mom, I love you," he said.
Singer?Adele,?a nine-time Grammy winner, won her first Golden Globe for best original song for "Skyfall," the theme to the latest James Bond movie. The singer, 24, gave birth to her first child, a son, in October.
Singer Adele claimed the Golden Globe for best original song for "Skyfall."
But the biggest standing ovation of the evening so far came when former president Bill Clinton walked on stage to introduce "Lincoln" which leads all nominees with seven. Award co-host Amy Poehler, hosting the show Tina Fey, with ?later joked, "That was Hilary Clinton's husband! So exciting!
Jennifer Lawrence won the award for best actress in a motion picture musical or comedy for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook." Upon taking the stage, Lawrence looked at her award and joked, "Oh, what does it say? I beat Meryl (Streep)!"
Two favorites took the first two awards. Christoph Waltz, who plays a dentist turned bounty hunter in "Django Unchained," won the award for best supporting actor in a motion picture.
Christoph Waltz won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a motion picture for his role in "Django Unchained."
"Let me gasp," Waltz said, before thanking director Quentin Tarantino "for entrusting me with this character" and praising his castmates, one of whom, Leonardo DiCaprio, he beat for the award.
Maggie Smith, whose acerbic barbs make her a favorite on PBS's "Downton Abbey," won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress in a series, miniseries or television film. Smith, 78, was not in attendance.
"Game Change," HBO's political drama about the 2008 presidential election, won the award for best miniseries or television film, and star Julianne Moore won for best actress in a miniseries or television film for her role as vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin. ?"Game Change" leads all television nominees with five.?
Kevin Costner won the award for best performance in a miniseries or television film for his role as Devil Anse Hatfield in the History Channel miniseries "Hatfields and McCoys."
"Kind of a short walk and a long career and a lot of people to thank along the way," Costner said.?He mused on the first time he ever attended the Golden Globes, remembering how "no one said anything to me" and how inspired he was by watching a retrospective of the career of Gregory Peck.?
Ed Harris, who played Sen. John McCain in "Game Change," won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a series, miniseries or television film.
"Life of Pi," based on the bestselling Yann Martel novel, won the award for best original score in a motion picture for Mychael Danna.
The Golden Globes are often compared to the Academy Awards, but last week's Oscar nominees made it clear the two aren't running in exactly parallel paths. The best director category is perhaps the best example of that, with Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino are contending with Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg for the Golden Globe, but the Oscars snubbed those three big names in favor of lesser-known Michael Haneke, David O. Russell and Benh Zeitlin.
Early on, Fey and Poehler directed a joke at controversial former ceremony host Ricky Gervais, noting that "when you run afoul of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, they make you host the show two more times." The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents the awards.
Fey and Poehler may have thrown out gentler barbs than Gervais, but they weren't afraid to land some digs. Poehler admitted she hadn't really been following the waterboarding controversy surrounding "Zero Dark Thirty," but joked of its director, Kathryn Bigelow, "when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to ("Titanic" director) James Cameron."
They even got a joke in at the host of a different awards show, praising Anne Hathaway's role as the abandoned young mother in "Les Miserables" by saying they "had not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since (Hathaway was) on stage with James Franco at the Oscars."
Fey also promised that the three-hour ceremony would wrap up by 11 p.m., or "11 Dark Thirty at the latest."
Presenters will include George Clooney, Halle Berry, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bradley Cooper. Jodie Foster will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, honoring the lifetime achievements of actors and filmmakers.
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Watch TODAY Monday morning as Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Natalie Morales report live from Hollywood on the Golden Globe winners, surprises and after-party details.
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