Family drama "The Descendants" starring George Clooney won the top best picture prize at the Golden Globe awards.
Hollywood veteran Clooney also won the best actor Globe for his performance in the Hawaii-based family drama, which had been nominated in five categories overall.
French-directed silent film "The Artist" won the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy film, its third award of the night.
The black-and-white movie, which had garnered the most nominations with nods in six categories, also won best actor for Jean Dujardin and best score for Ludovic Bource.
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But it was beaten for best director by Martin Scorsese for "Hugo," for best supporting actress by Octavia Spencer for civil rights drama "The Help," and best screenplay, which went to Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
The film, billed as a tribute to the silent movie era, tells the story of silent star George Valentin (played by Dujardin) whose career is torpedoed by the arrival of the "talkies."
It won best film and best director at the New York Film Critics Circle awards in November, and has garnered a string of nods since -- including this week from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), seen as a key Oscars indicator.
It won yet another prize just three days before the Globes, taking the Critics' Choice best film award in Los Angeles on Thursday.
But it also drew unusually harsh criticism this week, when veteran star Kim Novak, in a full-page ad in industry daily Variety, accused Hazanavicius of "rape" for using music from the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Vertigo."
Kelsey Grammer, Showtime's Homeland and movie actresses who turned to TV work were the big winners at the Golden Globes.
Grammer was named best actor in a television drama for his performance as a powerful Chicago mayor in Starz's Boss, a series not yet picked up by an Australian TV network.
The award was another indication of how the balance of power has shifted in television, with the commercial broadcast networks now struggling for recognition compared with pay-TV.
"This is very nice," Grammer said, looking at his trophy, on Sunday night. Three actresses - Jessica Lange, Laura Dern and Kate Winslet - who had won previous Golden Globes for movie roles won on Sunday for their TV work.
Lange, after receiving four Golden Globes for movies that included "A Streetcar Named Desire", won best supporting actress in a TV series for her role in FX's new "American Horror Story", screened in Australia on Network Ten's digital channel Eleven. "I find it ... rarer ever year to find a piece of work that is beautifully written and gives you something to do," Lange said.
"It certainly was this." Dern and Winslet had won Globes for movie work before their wins on Sunday.
Dern was named best actress in a TV comedy for her role in HBO's "Enlightened", which is now screening in Australia on pay-TV channel Showcase, while Winslet won best actress in a TV miniseries or movie for her portrayal of the title character in HBO's "Mildred Pierce", which has already screened on pay-TV here.
Dern's mother, actress Diane Ladd, looked on proudly.
Ladd also played Dern's mother in the series in which Dern plays environmental activist Amy Jellicoe. Dern thanked "all the whistleblowers out there. Amy couldn't exist without you."
Showtime's new "Homeland", in which Claire Danes plays a CIA agent investigating terrorist threats, won the Globe for best TV drama. The series begins screening on Network Ten on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Danes won the award for best actress in a TV drama. She remembered how she forgot to thank her parents when she won a Globe for My So-Called Life at age 15.
"I am so lucky to have another opportunity to let them know how lucky I am to have their love and encouragement," Danes said, accepting her third Globe.
Mildred Pierce didn't win best TV miniseries or movie and Australia's Guy Pearce missed out on the best supporting actor nod, but Winslet won for her acting. She played a strong-willed divorcee in Depression-era California in this remake of the Joan Crawford classic.
"I want to thank HBO for being absent when we needed it to be absent, and being present when we needed a little more shooting time," Winslet said.
Matt LeBlanc, one of TV's famed Friends, played Matt LeBlanc in the "Showtime" series Episodes, winning him honours for acting in a comedy. He thanked the show's writers.
"They wrote a Matt LeBlanc who, let's be honest, was a lot more interesting and fun than the real thing," he said.
"I wish I was him." Downton Abbey won for best TV miniseries or movie, beating out three nominees from HBO. "How fabulous this is," said producer Julian Fellowes.
"The whole Downton Abbey adventure has been an extraordinary one, like spotting a promising child and waking up to find they won the Olympics." Idris Elba, who plays the detective John Luther in BBC America's Luther, won the Globe for best actor in a TV movie or miniseries.
He looked at the camera and saluted his daughter, who he said was hosting a Golden Globe party.
Peter Dinklage, one of the few American actors in the mostly British Game of Thrones on HBO, won the award for best supporting actor.
In his speech, he admitted to being "a little nervous" because he and his wife hired a baby sitter for the first time for their daughter.
MOTION PICTURES
- Picture, Drama: The Descendants.
- Picture, Musical or Comedy: The Artist.
- Actor, Drama: George Clooney, The Descendants.
- Actress, Drama: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady.
- Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo.
- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jean Dujardin, The Artist.
- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Michelle Williams, My Week With
Marilyn.
- Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners.
- Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help.
- Foreign Language: A Separation.
- Animated Film: The Adventures of Tintin.
- Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris.
- Original Score: Ludovic Bource, The Artist.
- Original Song: Masterpiece (music and lyrics by Madonna, Julie
Frost, Jimmy Harry), WE.
TELEVISION
- Series, Drama: Homeland, Showtime.
- Series, Musical or Comedy: Modern Family, ABC.
- Actor, Drama: Kelsey Grammer, Boss.
- Actress, Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland.
- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Laura Dern, Enlightened.
- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Matt LeBlanc, Episodes.
- Miniseries or Movie: Downton Abbey (Masterpiece), PBS.
- Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce.
- Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Idris Elba, Luther.
- Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jessica
Lange, American Horror Story.
- Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Peter Dinklage,
Game of Thrones.
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Morgan Freeman.
