The late Heath Ledger is the only Australian nominee left in the run

Veteran director Allen was not on hand to receive the award. Other nominees included Mamma Mia!, In Bruges, Burn AfterReading and Happy-Go-Lucky. Ledger wins best supporting actor Globe Late Australian actor Heath Ledger has won aposthumous Golden Globe award for his performance as psychopathic villain The Joker in Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight. Batman director Christopher Nolan collected the best supportingactor award on behalf of Ledger, who died of an accidental overdosein January last year at the age of 28. The victory cements Ledger's status as the odds-on favourite towin a best supporting actor Academy Award at next month'sOscars. Aussie pair miss out on awards Australian actresses Rachel Griffiths and Melissa George havemissed out on the Golden Globe for best supporting televisionactress. Laura Dern beat the Australians with her role in the TV movieRecount.Griffiths had been nominated for her role in the seriesBrothers and Sisters, while George was nominated forIn Treatment. The late Heath Ledger is the only Australian nominee left in therun. He's the hot favourite to win best supporting actor for his turnas the Joker in the Dark Knight. Winslet takes first award at Golden Globes Kate Winslethas wonthe first award at the 66thGolden Globes, taking best supporting actress for her portrayal ofa Nazi death camp prison guard in The Reader. Winslet, , who had been nominated at the Globes on fiveprevious occasions, beat out Penelope Cruz (Vicky CristinaBarcelona), Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler) andDoubt co-stars Amy Adams and Viola Davis. Winslet is also in the running to add to her trophy haul latertoday - she is nominated in the best actress category for herperformance in Revolutionary Road, directed by her husbandSam Mendes. Spielberg honoured with Cecil B De Milleaward Canada Goose Jacka Steven Spielberg has been honoured with the Golden Globes CecileB DeMille Award for his ''outstanding contribution to theentertainment field''. Sunday's award recognises the legendary director of classicfilms including Jaws, Schindlers List and SavingPrivate Ryan had already won six Golden Globes during hiscareer with a further nominations. The last winners of the DeMille award was Warren Beatty whileprevious recipients have included Al Pacino, Robert Redford, ClintEastwood, Paul Newman and Alfred Hitchcock. Sally Hawkins wins comedy award Britain's Sally Hawkins has won the best musicalcomedy actressaward at the Golden Globes awards for her performance in thelight-hearted Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky. The 32-year-old actress on Sunday beat favorite Meryl Streep(Mamma Mia!), Frances McDormand (Burn AfterReading) and fellow Britons Rebecca Hall (Vicky CristinaBarcelona) and Emma Thompson (Last ChanceHarvey.) Wall-E wins for animation Wall-E' has been named best animated film at the 66thGolden Globes awards. The film .. about a garbage-collecting robot left on Earth afterhumans have abandoned the planet .. saw off competition fromKung-Fu Panda and Bolt. Golden Globes organisers only launched the animated film prizein and so far all three winners of the award have beenDisneyPixar films with Cars and Ratatouilletaking the award in the past two years. Israel's Waltz wins best foreign film Israeli movie Waltz With Bashir has won best foreignlanguage film award. Ari Folman's film is a moving animated memoir of the director'sexperiences as a young Israeli soldier during his country'sinvasion of Lebanon in 1982.

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