A film about a tortured mathematical genius, A Beautiful Mind, notched up four Golden Globes, including Best Drama and Best Actor for the film's New Zealand star Russell Crowe. Meanwhile, Aussie director Baz Luhrmann's audacious musical comedy Moulin Rouge picked up three awards including for Best Musical or Comedy and Best Actress for Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays the seductive courtesan Satine in turn-of-the-century Paris alongside Ewan McGregor.

In spite of an antipodean flavour to the night's winners there were no awards for the lavish epic and box office titan The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship Of the Ring - the film was shot in director Peter Jackson's native New Zealand.

British actor Jim Broadbent lifted the award for Actor in a Supporting Role for his part in Iris and Sting added to his trophy collection with a Globe for "Until…" from the soundtrack of trans-temporal romance Kate & Leopold.

But there was disappointment in the Brit camp for Ben Kingsley who didn't manage to convert either of his two nominations (Sexy Beast and television drama Anne Frank). A consolation for the Brits was that Robert Altman's first UK-set movie, Gosford Park, earned him the Best Director award.

In the foreign film section the hugely popular Amelie was pipped by No Man's Land.

The Globes are often seen as a barometre or "dress rehearsal" for the Academy Awards, so expectations are now high for Moulin Rouge and A Beautiful Mind to do well that when those gongs are given out in Los Angeles on March 24 2002.

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