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CNN Live At Daybreak

Aussies Rule Golden Globes

Aired January 21, 2002 - 05:48   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: If you could not stay awake, the Golden Globes were handed out last night. And if you love movies and television, you did watch. If you couldn't, well, we've got the highlights for you.

David Sheehan of CNN affiliate KCBS in Los Angeles was there.

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DAVID SHEEHAN, CORRESPONDENT: The show is over and the bottom line is, Russell rules and it's a big night for Nicole, as "Moulin Rouge" and "A Beautiful Mind" take the top prizes at the Golden Globe Awards.

MEL GIBSON, ACTOR: The winner is "A Beautiful Mind."

SHEEHAN (voice-over): Another round of awards for a beautiful movie. The "Beautiful Mind" combination of genius, madness, and a compassion for both, took four of the top Golden Globe awards, including Best Picture Drama, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Russell Crowe, who acknowledged the wider audience the awards will bring and what he hopes moviegoers get from the movie.

RUSSELL CROWE, BEST ACTOR, DRAMA: At the end of the day, if all we do is shine a little bit of a light on the humanity and the reason of people who go through this sort of disease, then that's great.

JENNIFER CONNELLY, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA: How do you know for sure?

CROWE: I don't. I just believe it.

SHEEHAN: Russell Crowe's co-star, Jennifer Connelly, won the fourth "Beautiful Mind" Golden Globe for best supporting actress.

CROWE: You have to help me.

CONNELLY It's a beautiful love story. It's a story of human triumph, you know, and it's a true story.

SHEEHAN: The wildly imaginative movie-musical "Moulin Rouge" took the second highest total, three Golden Globes, for Best Picture Musical, Best Score, and Best Actress for Nicole Kidman, who had a clear idea of what it all means before the show even started. NICOLE KIDMAN, BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL: It was such a bold kind of innovative film. And then Baz just said, "We're going to go for this."

SHEEHAN (on camera): Yeah.

KIDMAN: "You know, we may fall flat on our faces, but we're going to go for it."

SHEEHAN (voice-over): Best Actor, Comedy went to Gene Hackman for "The Royal Tenenbaums," but Gene was a no-show. Sissy Spacek was very much on hand, though, to receive the Best Actress in a Drama award for "In The Bedroom," her first big prize since "Coal Miner's Daughter," 21 years ago.

SISSY SPACEK, BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA : You know I think the years make it all the sweeter.

SHEEHAN: All the most important Golden Globes for television went to shows on HBO. "Sex And The City," Best Comedy Series; "Six Feet Under," Best Dramatic Series; and "Band of Brothers," Best Miniseries, for the 10-hour World War II story produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

TOM HANKS, ACTOR: The compactness, the narrative, and really the journey of the scope that one group of men went through from the beginning to the end of the war, I just though this is the "piece bien fait" -- for those of you who don't speak French, that's the "well- made play."

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COSTELLO: That was David Sheehan reporting.

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