Atonement, Sweeney Todd win best picture Golden Globes

Over the course of a 30-minute press conference, Atonement, which entered the ceremony as the front-runner with seven nominations, emerged with two for best motion picture - drama and best original score.

Sweeney Todd won best motion picture - musical or comedy and best actor - musical or comedy for Johnny Depp in the actor’s first, long awaited Golden Globe win after eight career nominations.

Two other films each won a brace of awards. No Country For Old Men earned prizes for best supporting actor for Javier Bardem and original screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen, while The Diving Bell And The Butterfly pipped 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in the foreign language category and earned Julian Schnabel the director award.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie won the top acting awards in the drama categories for There Will Be Blood and Away From Her respectively, while Marion Cotillard took home the best actress prize in the musical or comedy section for La Vie En Rose. Cate Blanchett won the best supporting actress prize for I’m Not There.

Ratatouille was named best animated feature film and Into The Wild won the original song category for Eddie Vedder’s contribution ‘Guaranteed’.

Juno failed to translate any of its three nominations into a win and there was no joy either for did Michael Clayton, which missed out in each of its four categories.

In contrast to the usual glitzy, star-studded televised ceremony, this year’s news conference featured hosts from various US entertainment news programmes reading out nominees and winners. HFPA president Jorge Camara introduced the event which was open to all media and also announced best picture (drama).

Steven Spielberg will receive his Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award next year when, organisers hope, it will be business as usual and the master director will be able to collect his honour in a suitably festive environment.

Full list of Golden Globe winners 2007:

Best motion picture - drama Atonement

Best motion picture - musical or comedy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Best director - motion picture
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - drama
Julie Christie - Away From Her

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - drama
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture - musical or comedy
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men

Best animated feature film
Ratatouille

Best foreign language film
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Best screenplay - motion picture
Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men

Best original score - motion picture
Atonement Composed by Dario Marianelli

Best original song - motion picture
Guaranteed - Into The Wild
Music and lyrics: Eddie Vedder

Best television series - drama Mad Men

Best performance by an actress in a television series - drama
Glenn Close - Damages

Best performance by an actor in a television series - drama
Jon Hamm - Mad Men

Best television series - musical or comedy Extras

Best performance by an actress in a television series - musical or comedy
Tina Fey - 30 Rock

Best performance by an actor in a television series - musical or comedy
David Duchovny - Californication

Best mini-series or motion picture made for television Longford

Best performance by an actress by an actress in a mini-series or motion picture made for television
Queen Latifah - Life Support

Best performance by an actor in a mini-series or motion picture made for television
Jim Broadbent - Longford

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series of motion picture made for television
Samantha Morton - Longford

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, mini-series of motion picture made for television
Jeremy Piven - Entourage