娱乐英语新闻:"The Social Network" emerges as major winner of Golden Globe awards

"I've just been working so many years and I'm so honored to be up here," Sagal said.

She said the tough-talking drama about a motorcycle club is a rare topic for late-night drama.

"It's a subculture that hasn't been explored a lot on TV," she said.

Sagal, who will turn 57 on Wednesday, earned four consecutive nominations for best actress in a television comedy from 1991-1994 for her role as Peggy Bundy in "Married with Children."

Christian Bale, who played a boxer struggling with drug addiction in film drama "The Fighter," won the award for best supporting actor.

He heaped praise on his co-star, Mark Wahlberg.

HBO's prohibition-era drama "Boardwalk Empire" won the Golden Globe Award for best drama series, while the series' Steve Buscemi was named best actor in a television drama. The win ended the three-year winning streak of AMC's "Mad Men."

Joining the winners was also "Toy Story 3", which won the Golden Globe for best animated feature film.

"In a Better World" of Denmark has won the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film.

The ceremony for Golden Globe awards was held in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

The awards, which are given out by the roughly 80 members of the HFPA, are one of the major Hollywood awards shows leading to the film industry's most-prized honors, the Oscars, which are given away by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Days before Sunday's ceremony, the Los Angeles Superior Court filed a lawsuit against the HFPA, accusing the group of corruption and orchestrating a massive payola scheme.

The lawsuit claims that the roughly 80 members of the HFPA accept money, vacations and gifts from entertainment companies in exchange for nominating their TV shows and movies for awards.

Former HFPA publicist Michael Russell claims the group owes him two million dollars in lost salary and other damages.

The lawsuit, which was filed last week and a copy of which was posted online by thewrap.com, claims that Russell was fired after he told the HFPA that its defective business practices could jeopardize its lucrative contract with NBC television, estimated to be worth 26 million dollars in 2012.