娱乐英语新闻:"The Artist", "The Descendants" crowned as big winners at Golden Globes

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- French black-and-white, silent film homage "The Artist" and Alexander Payne film "The Descendants" walked away from the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards presentation as the big winners, bagging three and two top awards respectively as the industry's top award event unfolded at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles Sunday evening.

"The Artist," which had led the field with six nods and won four Critics' Choice Awards Thursday, also grabbed an acting award and best score. It bested its main rivals including the cancer-patient story "50/50," the comic romp "Bridesmaids," writer-director Woody Allen's fantasy "Midnight in Paris" and the screen-legend portrait "My Week With Marilyn."

Clooney, a Critics' Choice winner, won the major acting prize, the Best Actor in a Drama, for his role in Alexander Payne's tragic-comic film "The Descendants." The movie is about a land baron who tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.

The nine-time Golden Globe-nominee for both his television work on "ER" and such films as "Michael Clayton" thanked fellow nominee Brad Pitt for his good work and Michael Fassbender for taking over the "frontal nudity responsibilities." He won a best-actor Globe for "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and a supporting-actor prize for "Syriana."

Clooney was also nominated this year for Best Director and Best Screenplay for "The Ides of March," a political thriller.

The Golden Globe for Best Actor in a motion picture comedy or musical went to Jean Dujardin for "The Artist."

The Golden Globe Awards take on a unique format: the organizers dole out trophies in two separate categories including motion picture comedy/musicals and dramas.