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Golden Globes give preview to Oscars 'American Beauty/ 'Sopranos' take top honors by Beth Harris Associated Press Beverly Hills, Cauf. - Good luck, Oscar vot ers. While the dark satire “American Beauty” and biopics on boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and late comic Andy Kaufman won Golden Globe awards Sunday night, no decisive front-runner emerged for the Academy Awards. For “The Sopranos,” meanwhile, the embar rassing rubout at the September Emmys is histo ry: The mobster hit on HBO won best television drama and three acting awards. “American Beauty” led the motion picture categories with three awards — best film drama, best director (Sam Mendes) and best screenplay (Alan Ball). But its stars, Annette Bening and Kevin Spacey, were shut out in the acting categories. “There wasn’t one clear-cut film that stood out,” “American Beauty” co-producer Bruce Co hen said. The Golden Globe winners often provide a good indicator of upcoming Oscar nominations, which are scheduled to be announced Feb. 15. This year, the Golden Globes favored projects that were based on true stories. Denzel Washington won best dramatic actor for his role as a boxer wrongly convicted of mur der in “The Hurricane.” He was accompanied to the stage at the Beverly Hilton hotel by the real “Hurricane,” Carter. “I can’t say enough that this was really about Rubin,” Washington said backstage. “This is a man who had a lot of hate in him, and now he’s pure love.” Hilary Swank won dramatic actress honors for “Boys Don’t Cry,” the reality-based story of a Ne braska teen-ager who was killed after her mas querade as a man was uncovered. . “It’s amazing when you get recognition for your work in a movie that you’re so proud to be a part of,” Swank said. “It’s a very important sto ry, and it’s just amazing to me that people are em bracing it.” Jim Carrey was named best movie comedy ac tor for his uncanny impersonation of Kaufman in the movie “Man on the Moon.” Carrey also won a Globe last year for best dramatic actor in “The Truman Show.” “I sit around sometimes still and go, ‘There will never be another like that,’” Carrey said back stage of the Kaufman role. “I’ve never thrown my self into something so drastically. I’ve never had a real person and real character to study. It was like being a detective.” Halle Berry also won for best actress in a TV miniseries for “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,” the first black woman to be nominated for a best actress Academy Award. Janet McTeer, a British actress who played a Southern mom in “Tumble Special To The Gamecock Jim Carney received the best actor in a musical or comedy award for his portray al of Andy Kaufman in “Man on the Moon.” weeds,” won best actress in a musical or comedy film. Tom Cruise of “Magnolia” and Angelina Jolie of “Girl, Interrupted” won motion picture sup porting actor honors. Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar won the foreign language movie award for “All About My Mother.” “I didn’t prepare anything and I don’t speak English, so it doesn’t matter,” a smiling Almod ovar said. “Just look at me and see how happy I am.” Cable channel HBO dominated the television cat egories, winning eight of 11 awards. Virtually overlooked at the Emmys last year, “The Sopranos” was named best drama series. It also nabbed dramatic acting trophies for Edie Fal co and James Gandolfini and supporting actress Nancy Marchand. HBO’s other winners were “Sex and the City” as best TV comedy, its star Sarah Jessica Parker as best actress and “RKO 281” as best miniseries or made for TV movie. Michael J. Fox was named best comedy series actor for “Spin City,” which he’s leaving because of his fight with Parkinson’s disease. But he han dled it lightly. “Actor out of work—news at 11Fox said Among other TV winners, Jack Lemmon was named best miniseries or TV movie actor for Show time’s “Inherit the Wind” and Peter Fonda was best supporting actor for the Showtime miniseries “Pas sion of Ayn Rand” Baibra Streisand winner of more Golden Globe •trophies than any other entertainer, including best actress for “Funny Girl” and “A Star is Bom,” re ceived the Cecil B. DeMille Award for “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field” “I’ve been called many names like perfec tionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes ob session, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good,” she said backstage. “It’s easy to be sort of good If you care so much, you kind of get punished for it.” The annual awards were selected by reporters from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 'And the winners are' Staff Reports Associated Press Winners of the HoEywood Foreign Press As sociation’s Golden Globe awards, presented Sun day night: MOTION PICTURES Picture, Drama: “American Beauty.” Actress, Drama: Hilary Swank, “Boys Don’t Cry.” Actor, Drama: Denzel Washington, “The Hurri cane.” Picture, Musical or Comedy: “Toy Story 2.” Actress, Musical or Comedy: Janet McTeer, “Tum bleweeds.” Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jim Carrey, “Man on the Moon.” Foreign Language: “All About My Mother,” Spain. Supporting Actress, Drama, Musical or Comedy: Angelina Jolie, “Girl, Interrupted.” Supporting Actor, Drama, Musical or Comedy: Tom Cruise, “Magnolia.” Director: Sam Mendes, “American Beauty.” Screenplay: Alan Ball, “American Beauty.” Original Score: Ennio Morricone, “The Legend of 1900.” Original Song: “You’ll be in My Heart” from “Tarzan,” by Phil Collins. TELEVISION Drama Series: “The Sopranos,” HBO. Actress, Drama: Edie Falco, “The Sopranos.” Actor, Drama: James Gandoliini, “The Sopranos.” Musical or Comedy Series: “Sex and the City,” HBO. Actress, Musical or Comedy Series: Sarah Jessica Parker, “Sex and the City.” Actor, Musical or Comedy Series: Michael J. Fox, “Spin City.” Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: “RKO 281,” HBO. Actress, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Halle Berry, “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.” Actor, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Jack Lemmon, “Inherit the Wind.” Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Nancy Marchand, “The So pranos.” Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie Made for Television: Peter Fonda, “Passion of Ayn Rand.” Recipients give few long acceptance speeches by Beth Harris Associated Press Beverly Hills, Calif. - The award for longest speeches at Sunday’s Golden Globes could have gone to Shirley MacLaine, who presented the Cecil B. DeMille award—or to Barbra Streisand, who received it. The presentation went on 24 minutes, almost a quarter of the show. MacLaine’s speech got off to a shaky start when the TelePrompTer that was supposed to help her recount the life of the singer-actress-director mal functioned. “Barbra’s career began at some time whenev er this TelePrompTer would begin and then I would tell you it was sometime in 19-what? Fifty-what ever,” MacLaine said, stalling for time. “Where is it, guys?” Quoting Streisand as “an actress who can sing,” MacLaine launched into a catalog of her friend’s film achievements, from “Funny Girl” to “A Star is Bom” to “Yentl.” MacLaine then talked about their shared birth date under the astrological Taurus sign, the star’s perfectionism and at times even veered into the philosophical. “Your honesty is your truth to be sure,” she said, “but you fill it with such incandescent insight that you help to actually redefine any given mo ment.” Upon accepting the award, Streisand spoke al most as long as MacLaine. Speeches seepages