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Aussies snubbed at Golden Globes

The Oscar chances of Australian trio Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush and Jacki Weaver have taken a dive with the trio snubbed for Golden Globes.

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The Oscar chances of Australian trio Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush and Jacki Weaver have taken a dive with the trio snubbed for Golden Globes.

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A win at the Globes would have re-charged their Oscar campaigns. Kidman, for Rabbit Hole, missed out on the best dramatic actress Globe to frontrunner Natalie Portman, star of Black Swan.

Rush came up short in his bid for a Globe for The King's Speech with the best supporting actor award going to Welsh actor Christian Bale for The Fighter.

Weaver was nominated in the best supporting actress category for her chilling performance as the mother of a Melbourne crime family in Animal Kingdom, but the Globe went to The Fighter's Melissa Leo.

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In the TV categories another Aussie, Toni Collette, for United States of Tara, lost the best actress in a comedy TV series gong to The Big C star, Laura Linney.

Adelaide-born Sia Furler, nominated with Christina Aguilera for writing the song Bound to You in the musical Burlesque, also missed out on a Golden Globe.

The best original song in a motion picture award went to Diane Warren for her Burlesque song, Haven't Seen The Last of Me.

Other Globe winners include: director David Fincher for The Social Network; actor in a comedy/musical film Paul Giamatti for Barney's Version; actress in a film comedy/musical film Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right; screenplay Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network; TV comedy-musical series Glee; actor in a TV comedy series Jim Parsons for Big Bang Theory; actor in a TV movie/mini-series Al Pacino for You Don't Know Jack; actress in a TV mini-series/movie Claire Danes for Temple Grandin; supporting TV actor Chris Colfer for Glee; TV drama series Boardwalk Empire; TV drama actor Steve Buscemi; animated feature Toy Story 3; actress in a dramatic TV series Katey Sagal; foreign language film In a Better World (Denmark); and TV mini-series Carlos. The Globes continue at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.


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