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'Slumdog Millionaire' wins 4 at Golden Globes
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-01-12 15:29


Actress Kate Winslet holds her awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for "Revolutionary Road" and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for "The Reader'' as her husband-director Sam Mendes kisses her at the 66th annual Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills, California January 11, 2009. Mendes directed "Revolutionary Road". [Agencies] 

The three films that led the Globe field with five nominations each -- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" -- all were shut out.

As expected, the late Heath Ledger earned the supporting-actor Globe for his diabolical turn as the Joker in the Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight." The Globe win boosts Ledger's prospects for the supporting-actor honor at the Oscars, whose nominations come out Jan. 22, the one-year anniversary of the actor's death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

The award was accepted by "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan, who said he and his collaborators were buoyed by the enormous acclaim and acceptance the film and Ledger's performance have gained worldwide.

"All of us who worked with Heath on `The Dark Knight' accept with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride," Nolan said. "After Heath passed, you saw a hole ripped in the future of cinema."

Only one actor has ever won a posthumous Oscar, best-actor recipient Peter Finchfor 1976's "Network."

Rourke won for a role as a former wrestling star who gets a last chance at glory in the ring, a theme that mirrors the actor's life after he derailed his career with bad-boy behavior.

"It's been a very long road back for me," said Rourke, who poured out his thanks to "The Wrestler" director Darren Aronofsky.

"I've said this before, in sports especially which I can relate to, really, truly great players come around every 30 years, and I really, truly believe Darren is one of those cats," Rourke said.