Golden Globes recap: 'Slumdog Millionaire' snags four, Winslet double winner, Ledger wins posthumously

'Slumdog Millionaire' was the big film winner at the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night. The movie about a young Indian man competing on India's version of 'Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?' and his life's flashbacks about his hardships and lost love won Best Motion Picture (Drama), Best Director for Danny Boyle, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. "We really weren't expecting to be here in America at all at one time, so it's just amazing to be here," said Simon Beaufoy during his acceptance speech for Best Screenplay, which he adapted from the novel "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup. Kate Winslet was a double winner. She first captured Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'The Reader' as a former Nazi prison guard on trial for war crimes. Later, she won Best Actress (Drama) as a frustrated suburban wife in "revolutionary Road,' which reunited her with her 'Titanic' co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, the first time in 11 years. "I've loved you for 13 years and your performance in this film is nothing short of spectacular," Winslet said to DiCaprio when accepting her lead role award. The late Heath Ledger won the posthumous Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his dark and sinister turn as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight.' Director Christopher Nolan accepted the award, saying he accepted "with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride." "After Heath passed on, you saw a hole ripped in the future of cinema," Nolan said. Nolan added: "But with the extraordinary response to his work that we've seen all over the world, I, for one, I start to look less at that gap in the future and little bit more at the incredible place in the history of cinema he built for himself with his talent and his dedication to his artistry." Mickey Rourke won Best Actor (Drama) for his performance as an aging grappler trying to hang on to his glory days in 'The Wrestler.' The award is several that the comeback actor has received for the role, one that mirrors several instances that the actor experienced in his own career. "It's been a very long road back for me," said Rourke. 'The Wrestler' also took home the first award of the night, to Bruce Springsteen for Best Original Song for the title song to the film. The other lead actor award, for a Musical or Comedy, was a surprise win--and acceptance--for Colin Farrell as a brash, young hitman in 'In Bruges.' Thanking his agents and lawyer, among others, Farrell also thanked writer-director Martin McDonagh for putting him in the movie, against Farrell's own suggestion of casting someone else. Farrell also acknowledge co-star Brendan Gleeson, also a nominee in the category. "I'll cut if for you when I get offstage and you can have a hemisphere," Farrell said in acceptance, to Gleeson, about splitting the planet-topped award. Relative unknown British actress Sally Hawkins took home the Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) for her turn as a bubbly, free-spirited and ever-optimistic school teacher in 'Happy-Go-Lucky.' Upon accepting, Hawkins broke down to tears, obviously taken aback by the immense awards attention the performance is bringing her, even so much as setting down her award on the stage floor. "I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me," Hawkins said. Another small surprise was the Globe for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) for Woody Allen's "Vicky Christina Barcelona." One award that was not a shock was one we knew the recipient ahead of time: Steven Spielberg accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement from friend and fellow director Martin Scorsese. "For 40 years he's been inventing and reinventing cinema with each new picture," Scorsese said. Upon accepting, Spielberg recalled seeing 'The Greatest Show' when he was six-years-old and his attempts to recreate the famed train crash with his Lionel train set, despite his parents' objections and threats of taking away his toy. "I think what was on my mind when I was risking losing my Lionel train set was me thinking, 'Am I going to get away with this?' he recounted. "That anxiety has been haunting me throughout my entire movie career. Whenever I've tried to tell a risky story, whether it's about sharks or dinosaurs or about aliens or about history, I'll always be thinking, 'Am I going to get away with this?'" "WALL-E" scooped up Best Animated Feature, and "Waltz With Bashir," a film from Israel, won Best Foreign Language Film.