Brokeback Mountain Wins Most Golden Globes

Honoring political bents without off-putting podium vents, the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards sparked show-biz's awards season Monday night with wins for Brokeback Mountain as best movie drama and Walk the Line as best musical or comedy.
Line also won two top Globes for actors, while Mountain also won for directing and screenplay.
With no host, just a parade of gowned and tuxedoed presenters, the show zipped through 24 awards for TV and film excellence, spreading the wealth to new faces (Steve Carell for TV's The Office) along with the old (no-show Paul Newman for TV movie Empire Falls). Sir Anthony Hopkins, 68, was honored with the lifetime Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Underdog film newcomer Felicity Huffman was the night's most heartening winner, taking best actress for a film drama for playing a man bent on becoming a woman in Transamerica. Philip Seymour Hoffman — his "knees shaking" — was equally agog for being named best actor for a drama as the flamboyantly gay Truman Capote in Capote.
But Brokeback Mountain's gay-cowboy drama led film winners with four Globes, from director Ang Lee to best original song, A Love That Will Never Grow Old, to screenwriters Diana Ossana and Texan Larry McMurtry.
But for all the stars' preening, politics — not fluff — often reigned, including George Clooney's win as best supporting actor in a drama for oil biz exposé Syriana.
"These are tough questions to ask," he said of the film, then made way for Weisz to claim her Globe for best supporting actress in a drama for pharmaceutical-shenanigan saga The Constant Gardener.
Similarly, best foreign film didn't go to inspired Chinese action flick Kung Fu Hustle, but to Palestine's Paradise Now, about suicide bombers in Tel Aviv.
Honors for politicking also went to TV, with Geena Davis taking best actress in a TV drama as the first woman president in Commander in Chief. But the Globes also celebrated women's naughty side, with Desperate Housewives winning as best TV musical or comedy series. Best TV drama went to the supernatural Survivor, aka Lost.