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Tinseltown’s first-of-the-season award extravaganza friended “The Social Network” last night, lavishing four Golden Globes on the story of Facebook — including best drama and director.
“The Social Network” also won best screenplay for Aaron Sorkin, creator of “The West Wing,” and musical score, solidifying its prospects as an Academy Awards favorite.
Speaking of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Sorkin said, “You turned out to be a great entrepreneur [and] a great visionary.”
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association crowned Colin Firth best actor for his role in “The King’s Speech,” about stammering British monarch George VI.
Pregnant and glowing Natalie Portman took best actress in a drama for the creepy thriller “Black Swan.”
Her fiancé, Benjamin Millepied, has a cameo role in which he says he wouldn’t want to sleep with her.
“It’s not true,” Portman assured the crowd. “He totally wants to sleep with me.”
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In the movie comedy or musical category, the best actor Globe went to Paul Giamatti for his role in “Barney’s Version.”
“I’m a little jacked up because I ate five boxes of the free Godiva chocolates,” he quipped of the swag. “I’ve never seen so many Godiva chocolates. And Halle Berry.”
The alternative-lifestyle feel-good flick, “The Kids Are All Right,” about lesbian parents whose children find their sperm-donor father, won for best movie in the comedy category and its star, Annette Bening, won best actress.
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In supporting dramatic movie roles, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo both snagged Globes for their parts in the based-on-a-true-story boxing flick “The Fighter.”
The Foreign Press Association also spread the love to top TV shows, showing it was giddy for “Glee,” but proving it was a lucky night as well for the drama “Boardwalk Empire,” a Prohibition-era tale of Atlantic City, with Steve Buscemi winning his first Globe for acting.
The show also snagged the TV best-drama Globe.
Best known for her long-running TV series “Married . . . With Children,” Katey Sagal won best actress in a TV drama for “Sons of Anarchy,” the motorcycle tale created by her husband, Kurt Sutter.
Al Pacino and Claire Danes also won acting awards for their roles on the small screen. Pacino played assisted-suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian in “You Don’t Know Jack,” and Danes was Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who is an animal-behavior expert, in a TV movie named for her.
Laura Linney in “The Big C” won the award for best actress in a comedy or musical with her portrayal of a cancer patient. She wasn’t there to accept the Globe. Her father, playwright Romulus Linney, died Saturday at his upstate home.