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First Major Entertainment Show of Year All Glitter and Stars Last Night in Beverly Hills

Aired January 21, 2002 - 07:50   ET

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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: The first major entertainment show of the year was all glitter and stars last night in Beverly Hills. The 59th annual Golden Globe awards, often considered the bellwether for the Oscars, had some, pardon the pun, beautiful surprises.

CNN's Anne McDermott was there. She filed this report.

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ANNE MCDERMOTT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Golden Globes are always glamorous, but this year also overwhelmingly Aussie. There was down under's Nicole Kidman named Best Actress for "Moulin Rouge", which also won for its original score (ph) composed by an Australian and took top honors in the Best Comedy of Musical category under the direction of another Aussie.

Later Director Baz Luhrmann and Kidman were backstage when they learned another countryman, Russell Crowe, won Best Actor for "A Beautiful Mind".

NICOLE KIDMAN, ACTRESS: Oh my God. Really.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aussie. Aussie. Aussie.

KIDMAN: Oh, I told him - we were having a cigarette backstage, and I said you're going to win.

MCDERMOTT: Crowe played a mathematician tortured by schizophrenia.

RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR: "A Beautiful Mind" is just a movie. It's just a piece of entertainment at the end of the day folks. But hopefully it helps us open our hearts.

MCDERMOTT: "A Beautiful Mind" was the evening's big movie winner with four Golden Globes, but its director Ron Howard was passed over in favor of veteran Robert Altman who gave most of the credit for his award to the actors in his film, "Gosford Park".

ROBERT ALTMAN, DIRECTOR: I feel that they do the work, and I get to watch.

MCDERMOTT: Sissy Spacek got her third Golden Globe for the movie "In The Bedroom" and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) for the song "Until" featured in "Kate and Leopold".

On the TV side, Tom Hanks, the executive producer of the World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers" led a crowd of colleagues on stage as he accepted his statuette.

TOM HANKS, ACTOR: Behold the "Band of Brothers".

MCDERMOTT: That series ran on HBO. HBO won six Golden Globes including Best Drama series for its new show, "Six Feet Under". Other TV winners included second-generation stars Charlie Sheen and Keifer Sutherland. The evening's Lifetime Achievement award was given to Harrison Ford who looked vaguely embarrassed as clips of his films from the past 30 years were flashed on a screen, and then he joked about all those years.

HARRISON FORD, ACTOR: My luck is holding. I'm nominated in a category where the competition is dead.

MCDERMOTT: He isn't even Australian, but they did find another one to close the show.

MEL GIBSON, ACTOR: Good night. Good night.

MCDERMOTT: Anne McDermott, CNN, Los Angeles.

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