66th Golden Globe Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 66

| award = Golden Globe Awards

| image =

| caption =

| date = January 11, 2009

| network = NBC

|site=Beverly Hilton Hotel
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California| best_film_drama = Slumdog Millionaire

| best_film_musical_or_comedy = Vicky Cristina Barcelona

| best_drama_series = Mad Men

| best_musical_or_comedy_series = 30 Rock

| best_miniseries_or_tv_movie = John Adams

|most_wins=(4) Slumdog Millionaire|most_nominations=(5) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon | last = 65th

| next = 67th

}}

The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, was broadcast on January 11, 2009, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on the NBC television network. The broadcast was watched by approximately 14.6 million viewers with a rating of 4.9/12. The ceremony returned after the previous year's ceremony was canceled due to the Writers Guild of America strike. The nominations were announced on December 12, 2008.

Winners and nominees

File:Mickey Rourke Tribeca 2009 Shankbone.jpg, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama winner]]

File:Mountain Between Us 08 (36835900520) (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and Best Supporting Actress winner]]

File:Colin Farrell by David Shankbone.jpg, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy winner]]

File:MJK35110 Sally Hawkins (Maudie, Berlinale 2017) (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy winner]]

File:Heath Ledger (Berlin Film Festival 2006) revised.jpg, Best Supporting Actor winner]]

File:Gabriel Byrne 2010.jpg, Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama winner]]

File:AnnaPaquinToronto2018 (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama winner]]

File:Alec Baldwin 4 PETA Shankbone 2008.jpg, Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy winner]]

File:Tina Fey Muppets Most Wanted Premiere (cropped 2).jpg, Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy winner]]

File:PaulGiamattiSept2013TIFF.jpg, Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film winner]]

File:Laura Linney 2016 (cropped).jpg, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film winner]]

File:Tom Wilkinson.jpg, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner]]

File:Laura Dern Deauville 2017.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner]]

These are the nominees for the 66th Golden Globe Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list.{{cite magazine|access-date=2022-03-26 |url=https://people.com/awards/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-score-golden-globe-nods/ |title=Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Score Golden Globe Nods |magazine=People |author=Silverman, Stephen |date=2008-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223191220/https://people.com/awards/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-score-golden-globe-nods/ |archive-date=2022-02-23 |url-status=live}}{{cite web|access-date=2008-12-12 |url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/index.html |publisher=Golden Globes |title=Nominations & Winners |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216165254/http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/index.html |archive-date=16 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}

=Film=

class=wikitable style="width=100%" ! colspan="2" \|Best Motion Picture
style="width="50%" \| Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama ! style="width="50%" \| Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
valign="top" \| *Slumdog Millionaire* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon The Reader Revolutionary Road \| valign="top" \| *Vicky Cristina Barcelona* Burn After Reading Happy-Go-Lucky In Bruges Mamma Mia!
colspan="2" \|Acting
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama ! Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
valign="top" \| *Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler* as Randy "The Ram" Robinson** Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road as Frank Wheeler Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk \| valign="top" \| Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) as Juliette Fontaine
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ! Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
valign="top" \| Colin Farrell – In Bruges as Ray Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo James Franco – Pineapple Express as Saul Silver Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges as Ken Dustin Hoffman – Last Chance Harvey as Harvey Shine \| valign="top" \| Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline "Poppy" Cross Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Vicky Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading as Linda Litzke Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey as Kate Walker
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture ! Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
valign="top" \| Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous) Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder as Les Grossman Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess as William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn \| valign="top" \| Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz Amy Adams – Doubt as Sister James Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena Viola Davis – Doubt as Mrs. Miller Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Cassidy
Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture ! Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
valign="top" \| Danny Boyle – *Slumdog Millionaire* Stephen Daldry – The Reader David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road \| valign="top" \| Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth Doubt – John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan The Reader – David Hare
{{anchor\|Best Original Song}}Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song ! Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
valign="top" \| "The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen) – *The Wrestler* "Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel) – WALL-E "Gran Torino" (performed by Jamie Cullum) – Gran Torino "I Thought I Lost You" (performed By Miley Cyrus and John Travolta) – Bolt "Once in a Lifetime" (performed by Beyoncé Knowles) – Cadillac Records \| valign="top" \| Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman Changeling – Clint Eastwood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat Defiance – James Newton Howard Frost/Nixon – Hans Zimmer
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film ! Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
valign="top" \| *Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)* • Israel The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) • Sweden/Denmark Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) • France \| valign="top" \| *WALL-E* Bolt Kung Fu Panda

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

! colspan="2" |Best Motion Picture

style="width="50%" | Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

! style="width="50%" | Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

valign="top" |

| valign="top" |

colspan="2" |Acting

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

! Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

valign="top" |

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road as Frank Wheeler
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

| valign="top" |

Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym
Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins
Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) as Juliette Fontaine

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

! Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

valign="top" |

Colin Farrell – In Bruges as Ray
Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
James Franco – Pineapple Express as Saul Silver
Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges as Ken
Dustin Hoffman – Last Chance Harvey as Harvey Shine

| valign="top" |

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline "Poppy" Cross
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Vicky
Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading as Linda Litzke
Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey as Kate Walker

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

! Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

valign="top" |

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous)
Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder as Les Grossman
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess as William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn

| valign="top" |

Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz
Amy Adams – Doubt as Sister James
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena
Viola Davis – Doubt as Mrs. Miller
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Cassidy

Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture

! Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

valign="top" |

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road

| valign="top" |

Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
The Reader – David Hare

{{anchor|Best Original Song}}Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song

! Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

valign="top" |

"The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen) – The Wrestler
"Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel) – WALL-E
"Gran Torino" (performed by Jamie Cullum) – Gran Torino
"I Thought I Lost You" (performed By Miley Cyrus and John Travolta) – Bolt
"Once in a Lifetime" (performed by Beyoncé Knowles) – Cadillac Records

| valign="top" |

Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
Changeling – Clint Eastwood
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
Defiance – James Newton Howard
Frost/Nixon – Hans Zimmer

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

! Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

valign="top" |

Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) • Israel
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany
Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) • Sweden/Denmark
Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) • France

| valign="top" |

=Television=

colspan=2 \| Best Television Series
class=wikitable style="width=100%"
style="width=50%" \| Drama !style="width=50%" \| Musical or Comedy
valign="top" \| Mad Men (AMC) Dexter (Showtime) House (Fox) In Treatment (HBO) True Blood (HBO) \| valign="top" \| 30 Rock (NBC) Californication (Showtime) Entourage (HBO) The Office (NBC) Weeds (Showtime)
colspan=2 \| Best Performance in a Television Series – Drama
Actor ! Actress
valign="top" \| *Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment* (HBO) as Dr. Paul Weston** Michael C. Hall – Dexter (Showtime) as Dexter Morgan Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC) as Don Draper Hugh Laurie – House (Fox) as Dr. Gregory House Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors (Showtime) as Henry VIII of England \| valign="top" \| *Anna Paquin – True Blood* (HBO) as Sookie Stackhouse** Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters (ABC) as Nora Walker Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) as Det. Olivia Benson January Jones – Mad Men (AMC) as Betty Draper Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT) as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson
colspan=2 \| Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Actor ! Actress
valign="top" \| *Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock* (NBC) as Jack Donaghy** Steve Carell – The Office (NBC) as Michael Scott Kevin Connolly – Entourage (HBO) as Eric Murphy David Duchovny – Californication (Showtime) as Hank Moody Tony Shalhoub – Monk (USA Network) as Adrian Monk \| valign="top" \| *Tina Fey – 30 Rock* (NBC) as Liz Lemon** Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? (ABC) as Samantha "Sam" Newly America Ferrera – Ugly Betty (ABC) as Betty Suarez Debra Messing – The Starter Wife (USA Network) as Molly Kagan Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds (Showtime) as Nancy Botwin
colspan=2 \| Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film
Actor ! Actress
valign="top" \| *Paul Giamatti – John Adams* (HBO) as John Adams** Ralph Fiennes – Bernard and Doris (HBO) as Bernard Lafferty Kevin Spacey – Recount (HBO) as Ron Klain Kiefer Sutherland – 24: Redemption (Fox) as Jack Bauer Tom Wilkinson – Recount (HBO) as James Baker \| valign="top" \| *Laura Linney – John Adams* (HBO) as Abigail Adams** Catherine Keener – An American Crime (Showtime) as Gertrude Baniszewski Shirley MacLaine – Coco Chanel (Lifetime) as Coco Chanel Susan Sarandon – Bernard and Doris (HBO) as Doris Duke Judi Dench – Cranford (PBS) as Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns
colspan=2 \| Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor ! Supporting Actress
valign="top" \| *Tom Wilkinson – John Adams* (HBO) as Benjamin Franklin** Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother (CBS) as Barney Stinson Denis Leary – Recount (HBO) as Michael Whouley Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO) as Ari Gold Blair Underwood – In Treatment (HBO) as Alex Prince \| valign="top" \| *Laura Dern – Recount* (HBO) as Katherine Harris** Eileen Atkins – Cranford (PBS) as Deborah Jenkyns Melissa George – In Treatment (HBO) as Laura Hill Rachel Griffiths – Brothers & Sisters (ABC) as Sarah Walker Dianne Wiest – In Treatment (HBO) as Gina
colspan=2 \| Best Miniseries or Television Film
colspan=2 style="vertical-align:top;"\| John Adams (HBO) Bernard and Doris (HBO) Cranford (PBS) A Raisin in the Sun (ABC) Recount (HBO)