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The eight-times nominated `Chicago,' starring Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere — who also won best actor awards for their roles in the movie — was the most honoured film on Sunday evening with its three Golden Globe wins. The Globes are Hollywood's second most prestigious award and are often seen as a barometer of which films will go on to win cinema's greatest prize, the Oscars, nominations for which will be unveiled in three weeks. While `Chicago'took the Globe for best musical or comedy film, `The Hours,'directed by British filmmaker Stephen Daldry and adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, snatched the plaudit for best drama. The Australian actress, Nicole Kidman, won her second consecutive best dramatic actress award, this time for `The Hours,'while the veteran star, Jack Nicholson, made history by winning his sixth Globe, for best actor in a drama in the bittersweet drama `About Schmidt'. `The Hours,' a desperate tale of three women linked by a literary thread to the British author, Virginia Woolf, and `About Schmidt,' the story of an insurance agent who reassesses his life as he retires, walked off with two Golden Globes apiece. "I'm so surprised ... I don't know whether to be happy or ashamed because I thought we'd made a comedy," Mr. Nicholson said as he accepted his latest award, which made him the biggest best actor award winner in Globes history. Ms. Kidman (35), who won for her portrayal of Woolf, said she was drawn to the role by the extraordinary complexity of the characters and the story. "It was a tricky movie in terms of subject and I'm just grateful that it got made," she said, calling for Hollywood to create strong roles for women. "This year there's been an enormous amount of good performances by women in television and in cinema." "Writers, please keep writing for us because we're very interesting. And directors, please keep giving us complicated wonderful types of women for the screen,'' said the star who won a best actress award last year for the musical `Moulin Rouge.' Ms. Kidman beat out co-stars Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore — who was in fact nominated for another film `Far From Heaven'— as well as Salma Hayek for `Frida' and Diane Lane for `Unfaithful' in the category. The U.S. megastar, Richard Gere, scooped up the award for best actor in a musical for his role in the razzle-dazzle musical `Chicago,' in which he plays the unlikely role — for him — of singing and tap-dancing attorney Bill Flynn. "I don't win anything. I never win," said Mr. Gere (53), as he accepted his prize from Sharon Stone. "You won this, buddy," he said to pal Nicolas Cage, the star of `Adaptation,' against whom he competed in the category. "I didn't even want to do this movie,' he admitted. "That's what I know ... I honestly did not expect this. Nicolas wins all of these." Moments later, his breathless and tearful co-star Zellweger won the Globe for best actress in a musical, beating out her own co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was in the audience with husband Michael Douglas.
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