ONLINE EXTRA: “˜Beautiful Mind’ tallies 4 Golden Globes

  The Associated Press Sarah Jessica
Parker accepts her award for best performance by an
actress in a television comedy.

By Anthony Breznican
The Associated Press

“A Beautiful Mind” was named best drama and its star
Russell Crowe won the top dramatic actor trophy as the Golden
Globes rewarded stories of love under the duress of madness,
despair and illness.

“A Beautiful Mind” collected a leading four Globes
Sunday night and was followed by triple winner “Moulin
Rouge,” which was awarded the Globe for best musical or
comedy and earned a best actress honor for Nicole Kidman.

If conventional wisdom holds, the Golden Globe recognition will
be a boost for the Oscar chances of the two films when the Academy
Awards are presented in March.

“A Beautiful Mind” captured the attention of
Hollywood Foreign Press Association voters with its dramatization
of the true-life story of Nobel prize-winning John Forbes Nash Jr.,
a schizophrenic math genius who rebuilds his life with the help of
his devoted wife.

“I wanted to give a greater understanding to mental
illness,” said producer Brian Grazer. “And I hope in
some way we achieved this.”

The film also won for best screenplay and best supporting
dramatic actress, Jennifer Connelly.

Although “A Beautiful Mind” omits and fictionalizes
elements of the Nashes’ lives, the movie was most concerned
with dramatizing the mutual dedication of two suffering people,
Connelly said.

“I think the essence of their story is really captured in
the film,” she said. “I think that the Nashes most
importantly are happy with it, and that it accurately presents
their story.”

The hyperactive musical “Moulin Rouge” blended
fantasy storytelling techniques and anachronistic pop songs in a
tale of forbidden romance.

Kidman plays a dying cabaret singer wallowing in sadness until a
dashing romantic, played by Ewan McGregor, sweeps her off her
feet.

The supporting dramatic actor honor went to Jim Broadbent for
playing the husband of novelist Iris Murdoch, who suffered from
Alzheimer’s disease, in “Iris.”

Broadbent portrayed writer John Bayley, Murdoch’s
brilliant but childlike husband, who nursed his dying wife as her
once-sharp mind deteriorated.

Robert Altman took the directing honor for his murder-mystery
satire “Gosford Park,” which chronicles the scandals of
English aristocrats through the eyes of their servants.

Sissy Spacek was named best dramatic actress for the dark drama
“In the Bedroom,” about a husband and wife who must
reconcile after a family tragedy.

Gene Hackman earned the comedy actor Globe for his performance
as the conniving head of a family of former child prodigies in
“The Royal Tenenbaums.”

Bosnia’s “No Man’s Land” received the
foreign language film Globe. Sting was the victor in the movie song
category for his romantic waltz “Until … ,” from the
romantic comedy “Kate & Leopold.”

Absent during this year’s telecast were the outrageous
antics or remarks that have given the Globes notoriety. It showed
that Hollywood is largely maintaining a toned-down attitude since
the Sept. 11 attacks.

In the television categories, HBO’s “Sex and the
City” took best comedy and star Sarah Jessica Parker was
cited as best comedic actress. The cable network’s funeral
home drama “Six Feet Under” was best drama series.

Charlie Sheen got the comedic actor award for ABC’s
“Spin City.”

Kiefer Sutherland’s role as a CIA agent in the real-time
thriller “24” won a dramatic TV actor trophy, and
Jennifer Garner claimed the dramatic TV actress award for playing a
sexy spy in ABC’s “Alias.”

HBO’s World War II drama “Band of Brothers”
won best miniseries.

Judy Davis received the miniseries actress award for ABC’s
“Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” and James
Franco won the miniseries actor prize for TNT’s “James
Dean.”

Harrison Ford, star of the “Indiana Jones”
adventures and the original “Star Wars” trilogy, took
home the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award.