Winslet leads British Globe winners

12 April 2012

Kate Winslet has led the British charge at the Golden Globe awards, winning the best supporting actress gong for The Reader.

Winslet is also up for best dramatic actress at the Globes, a precursor to the Oscars, with the domestic drama Revolutionary Road.

In the Reader, she plays a former Nazi concentration camp guard in a romantic fling with a teenager.

The Globe win could boost Winslet's prospects for the same prize at the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out on January 22. Winslet has been nominated five times at the Oscars but has yet to win.

"You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things," she said in Los Angeles as she opened what she acknowledged was a long acceptance speech.

"Sorry this is going on a bit, but I'm going to make the most of it," she said amid thanking everyone from her children to the film's make-up artists.

British actor Tom Wilkinson took the TV supporting actor Globe for his part in John Adams and Irishman Gabriel Byrne won a TV drama actor award for his role in the US series In Treatment.

Sally Hawkins, who played the girlfriend of Little Britain's stage hypnotist Kenny Craig, earned the best actress prize in a musical or comedy as an eternal optimist in Happy-Go-Lucky.

And Heath Ledger won the supporting-actor Golden Globe nearly a year after his death, earning the prize for his turn as the Joker in the Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight. The award was accepted by the film's director Christopher Nolan.

A year ago, industrial action by the Writers Guild of America shut down the Globes, the town's second-biggest movie celebration after the Academy Awards, but organisers promised their show would be back, bigger and better than ever.

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