Golden Globe Awards 2007

Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Departed - Unter Feinden .

Best Comedy Actor: British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat .

The 64th Golden Globe Awards , presented each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for film (14 categories) and television (11 categories), took place on January 15, 2007. In Germany , the gala was broadcast live on Tuesday morning, January 16, from 2 a.m. to 5:10 a.m. on the private broadcaster ProSieben .

The most successful film won three awards from Bill Condon's musical adaptation Dreamgirls . Nominated five times for a Golden Globe, the film with Jamie Foxx and Beyoncé Knowles won in the categories of best film (comedy or musical) and the two supporting actor categories ( Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy ). Close behind with two awards is Stephen Frear's drama The Queen . Leading actress Helen Mirren was , as expected, best actress in a drama, while screenwriter Peter Morgan was honored for his film script. The film productions Babel (7 nominations) and Departed - Unter Feinden (6 nominations), which were also considered favorites, were each able to prevail in one category. Alejandro González Iñárritu's modern parable on the biblical tower was awarded as best film drama, while Martin Scorsese received the directing award for his thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson . Scorsese prevailed against the two-time nominated Clint Eastwood ( Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima ), against whom he was defeated at the 2005 Academy Awards with his drama Aviator . The Pixar production Cars by director John Lasseter received the award for the best animated film, which was awarded for the first time in 2007 .

From a German point of view, the film music by composer Hans Zimmer ( The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code ) and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film The Lives of Others did not receive a prize . While rooms Frenchman Alexandre Desplat ( The Painted Veil ) lost, lost to the European Film Award -winning Stasi -Drama in the category best foreign language production against Clint Eastwood's war film Letters from Iwo Jima . The American actors Annette Bening ( Krass ; Mrs. Harris - Murder in the best circles ) and Leonardo DiCaprio ( Departed - Unter Feinden ; Blood Diamond ), the Brit Chiwetel Ejiofor ( Kinky Boots - Man (n ) wears boots ; Tsunami - Die Killerwelle ), as well as the Australian Toni Collette ( Little Miss Sunshine ; Tsunami - Die Killerwelle ). On the other hand, Paul Greengrass ' drama Flight 93 did not leave an impression on the Golden Globe judges in advance . The film, which works with Oliver Stone's World Trade Center to deal with the US trauma of September 11, 2001 , won the New York Film Critics Circle award a few days before the nominations were announced . Not been included Ryan spot Independent Film Half Nelson in which Ryan Gosling could convince the US critics with the role of a drug-addicted junior high school teacher and the British Theater film The History Boys by Nicholas Hytner . In contrast, the American Forest Whitaker was able to convert his nomination into a victory , who was the best drama actor for his much-praised portrait of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (1928-2003) in Kevin Macdonald's political film The Last King of Scotland . The Briton Sacha Baron Cohen was honored as best comedy actor for his fictional documentary Borat . The mockumentary about the experiences of a Kazakh TV reporter in the USA brought in more than 126 million US dollars (approx. 97.5 million euros ) in the United States alone. The 69-year-old Warren Beatty was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his life's work . The American, who was honored as the best young actor in 1962 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, had celebrated success as an actor as well as a director, screenwriter and film producer and was awarded a Golden Globe and an Oscar for best in 1982 for the historical drama Reds Excellent director.

In the television categories, the series Weeds and Grey's Anatomy were considered Golden Globe aspirants with four nominations each , but only the doctor series broadcast on ProSieben in Germany could live up to its favorite status and won the award for the best drama series. Tom Hooper's historical film Elizabeth I was awarded three Golden Globes and was able to triumph as the best mini-series or television film and in two actor categories (Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons ). The format Alles Betty! Which was broadcast on the television channel ABC received two awards . , the American counterpart to Verliebt in Berlin , with the 22-year-old Californian America Ferrera as the title hero, and Stephen Poliakoff's drama Gideon's Daughter with Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt in the leading roles.

Film winners and nominees

Movie	N	S.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory
Babel	7th	1
Departed - Among enemies	6th	1
Dream girls	5	3
The Queen	4th	2
The devil Wears Prada	3	1
Little Children	3	0
Diary of a scandal	3	0
Borate	2	1
Happy feet	2	1
Letters from Iwo Jima	2	1
Bobby	2	0
The pursuit of happiness	2	0
Little Miss Sunshine	2	0
Thank you for smoking	2	0
Volver - return	2	0

Best film - drama

Presented by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Babel - Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Bobby - Director: Emilio Estevez
Departed - The Departed (The Departed) - Director: Martin Scorsese
The Queen (The Queen) - Director: Stephen Frears
Little Children - Directed by Todd Field

Best Film - Comedy / Musical

Presented by Jennifer Lopez

Dreamgirls - Director: Bill Condon

Borat (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) - Director: Larry Charles
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada) - Director: David Frankel
Little Miss Sunshine - Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Thank You for Smoking - Director: Jason Reitman

Best director

Presented by Steven Spielberg

Martin Scorsese - The Departed - The Departed (The Departed)

Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen (The Queen)
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel

Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)

Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Kinky Boots - Man (s) wearing boots (Kinky Boots)
Will Ferrell - Stranger Than Fiction (Stranger Than Fiction)

Best Actress - Comedy / Musical

Presented by Joaquin Phoenix

Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada)

Annette Bening - Krass (Running with Scissors)
Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine
Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls
Renée Zellweger - Miss Potter

Best supporting actor

Presented by Rachel Weisz

Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

Ben Affleck - The Hollywood Conspiracy (Hollywoodland)
Jack Nicholson - Departed (The Departed)
Brad Pitt - Babel
Mark Wahlberg - Departed - Unter Feinden (The Departed)

The best supporting actress

Presented by George Clooney

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal (Notes on a Scandal)
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada)
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Best script

Presented by Jake Gyllenhaal and Hilary Swank

Peter Morgan - The Queen (The Queen)

Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Todd Field , Tom Perrotta - Little Children
Patrick Marber - Notes on a Scandal (Notes on a Scandal)
William Monahan - The Departed - The Departed (The Departed)

Best film score

Presented by Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant

Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil (The Painted Veil)

Clint Mansell - The Fountain
Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
Carlo Siliotto - Nomad - The Warrior (Nomad)
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code

Best movie song

Presented by Justin Timberlake

"The Song of the Heart" from Happy Feet - Prince

"A Father's Way" from The Pursuit of Happyness (The Pursuit of Happyness) - Christopher Bruce , Seal

" Lists " from Dreamgirls - Scott Cutler , Beyoncé Knowles , Henry Krieger , Anne Preven

"Never Gonna Break My Faith" from Bobby - Bryan Adams , Eliot Kennedy , Andrea Remanda

"Try Not to Remember" from Home of the Brave - Sheryl Crow

Best animated film

Presented by Steve Carell

Cars - Directed by John Lasseter

Happy Feet - Director: George Miller
Monster House - Director: Gil Kenan

Best foreign language film

Presented by Djimon Hounsou and Sharon Stone

Letters from Iwo Jima , USA - Director: Clint Eastwood

Apocalypto , USA - Director: Mel Gibson
The Lives of Others , Germany - Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del Fauno) , Mexico - Director: Guillermo del Toro
Volver - Returning (Volver) , Spain - Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Television winners and nominees

Movie	N	S.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory
Grey's Anatomy	4th	1
Weeds - Small deals among neighbors	4th	0
Elizabeth I	3	3
Broken Trail	3	0
Desperate Housewives	3	0
Mrs. Harris - murder in the best circles	3	0
Tsunami - the killer wave	3	0
Gideon's Daughter	2	2
Ugly Betty	2	2
Big love	2	0
Bleak House	2	0
The office	2	0
Entourage	2	0
Heroes	2	0
Hot suspicion	2	0
Lost	2	0
24	2	0