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The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards

A look at some of the night's big winners, from "Slumdog Millionaire" to "30 Rock."

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"Your mad, pulsating affection for our film is deeply appreciated," said "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle of the movie's four wins at the trophy-spewing ceremony, including best director, best dramatic movie, best screenplay and best original score.

"I told you, do a Holocaust movie -- the awards will come!" presenter Ricky Gervais told Kate Winslet after she finally won a trophy: this one for best supporting actress in a motion picture, for playing a German woman with a hidden past in "The Reader."

"The problem with Holocaust movies -- there's never any gag reel on the DVD."

It was the first of two Globes for Winslet; she was also named best motion picture actress for "Revolutionary Road," in which she was reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio.

"I'm so happy I can stand here and tell you how much I've loved you for 13 years," Winslet sobbed at DiCaprio, seated in the audience.

"The English actress stole my crying bit," Matt Weiner whined when his AMC series "Mad Men" was named the year's best TV drama series. Backstage, Weiner told reporters there has been "no movement" on his negotiations to return to the series -- he wants $10 million a year, and the studio and network are balking. "I have every intention of going back to the show; I'm hoping it works out," he said. "It's my child, so I'm very close to it."

"I want to thank all my dogs -- sometimes when a man is alone, all you got are your dogs. . . . They meant the world to me," Mickey Rourke, star of "The Wrestler," mumbled when he was named the year's best movie actor in a drama.

Perennial trophy winner Jeremy Piven, of HBO's "Entourage," had dragged himself from his mercury-poisoned Broadway deathbed to attend this year's Globes, and then got edged out in the race for best actor in a TV series, miniseries or TV movie by Tom Wilkinson of HBO's "John Adams."

"I'm so unbelievably grateful to be here," Piven told football great-turned-"Access Hollywood" correspondent Tiki Barber on the red carpet before the trophy dispensing got underway. "I don't know if they've ever taken you out of a game -- I could have gone against doctors' orders but I didn't."

"If they told me I couldn't play, I would have jumped back in," Barber responded.

Ouch!

"John Adams" and its network, HBO, dominated the TV wins at the Globes, taking seven of the 11 categories. Apropos of nothing, producer Tom Hanks, speaking to the press backstage after the project was named the season's best miniseries, was asked why he thought Proposition 8, banning gay marriage, had passed in the state of California.