Golden Globes 2011: the film winners and losers – in pictures

It's the 68th annual Golden Globes, live from the Beverly Hilton hotel in Hollywood, which means dinner and drinks, stars that win and stars that don't. Brad Pitt escorts Angelina Jolie, who is nominated for her turn in The Tourist. Sad to say, she shall go home empty handed
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Jennifer Lopez, meanwhile, is not even nominated. But that's OK, because the Globes are not just about the Globes. They are also open to the likes of Lopez ...
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... just as they are open to the likes of Twilight star Robert Pattinson ... Photograph: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

.... and High School Musical muse Zac Efron Photograph: Lester Cohen/WireImage

And it's the first rule of Hollywood that the Globes would be a shade less golden without the presence of Christina Aguilera ...
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... and Kevin Spacey (maybe that's the second law of Hollywood) Photograph: DANNY MOLOSHOK/REUTERS

The Globes, in other words, finds room for everyone. The bad news: Helen Mirren is not nominated for The Last Station. The good: she is here all the same, in her new role as a presenter. And, if anything, is even more convincing
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Bad news: no nominations for Matt Damon, despite his acclaimed turn in True Grit. The good: who cares? Be present. Be a presenter
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And look, here comes Halle Berry, nominated for Frankie and Alice but clutching at straws and smiling through the tears
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And so to the awards themselves. Natalie Portman is named best dramatic actress for her turn as an anguished, ambitious ballerina in Black Swan, a backstage melodrama by Darren Aronofsky
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She is presented with her prize by Jeff Bridges, a Globes winner himself in those distant days of 2010 for his turn in Crazy Heart
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Paul Giamatti is named best actor in a musical/comedy for Barney's Version. 'I got to smoke and drink and get laid in this movie and I got paid for it,' he said. The award, therefore, is just the icing on his cake
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Al Pacino is not in a movie, but so what? He gets an award all the same. The veteran performer is named best actor in a mini-series or TV-movie for You Don't Know Jack Photograph: HO/REUTERS

Elsewhere there's a prize for Pacino's long-term friend and rival. Robert De Niro picks up the Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award and promptly accuses voters of not even watching what he regards as his finest roles. Like Marvin's Room, for instance. Or Stanley and Iris Photograph: HO/REUTERS

Time for a quick trip backstage. Here's Mark Ruffalo, star of The Kids Are All Right, alongside his wife, actor Sunrise Coigney. This, we're guessing, makes her his official date for the evening Photograph: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NBCUniversal

More spousal action as Geoffrey Rush arrives with his wife Jane Menelaus. Rush is nominated for his role in the King's Speech, though he will (whisper it) lose out on the night Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP

But Rush's co-star is more fortunate. Colin Firth wins the crowning best dramatic actor prize for his acclaimed turn as stuttering George VI. The 50-year-old British actor is now the favourite to take the Oscar next month
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Michelle Williams enters as a gilded best actress nominee, shortlisted for her acclaimed turn in marital breakdown drama Blue Valentine. She shall leave empty handed, though possibly still smiling Photograph: DANNY MOLOSHOK/REUTERS

Adrien Brody is not nominated. He is here for the party
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Helen Mirren, as has been already established, is not nominated either. Here she is with Tilda Swinton. Tilda Swinton, too, is gloriously, comprehensively Not Nominated
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The night's big winner is The Social Network, an unauthorised biopic of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It scoops four awards, including best dramatic film and best director for David Fincher
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The Social Network also wins for best soundtrack and best screenplay, which is collected by writer Aaron Sorkin
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But the sentimental favourite at this year's Globes is Michael Douglas, who missed out on an acting award for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, but was still cheered to the rafters when he took the stage. 'There's got to be an easier way to get a standing ovation,' said Douglas, who is currently battling stage-four cancer
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Elsewhere the mood turns altogether less cosy. The Globes are hosted by Ricky Gervais, who sets about flaming the assembled guests. Bruce Willis (seen here with wife Emma Heming) is casually introduced as 'Ashton Kutcher's dad' Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP

Even Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is not exempt from the jokes. 'I had to help the HFPA president off the toilet and pop his teeth back in,' Gervais says at one stage. Following the event, Berk appears to suggest he would not be hiring Gervais again Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP

And so, with a shower of awards and a deluge of celebrities, the 68th annual Golden Globes wraps up for another year. Anne Hathaway ensures that we're glad to see the back of it Photograph: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic