The girl-group musical "Dreamgirls" topped the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards Monday night in Los Angeles with three trophies, including Best Musical or Comedy.
The multinational drama "Babel" took the Best Motion Picture Drama Globe.
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu accepted the award for the film, a multinational drama was shot on three continents and in five languages.
"It seems that no matter how many languages that you make a film or shoot a film (in), the power of cinema is universal," Iñárritu said. "And (in) the end, emotion doesn't need translation -- and that's the beauty of this."
Martin Scorsese won the Best Director Globe for "The Departed," while favorites Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker took the top dramatic acting honors for "The Queen" and "The Last King of Scotland," respectively.
Meryl Streep won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe for playing a ruthless magazine editor in the fashion industry send-up "The Devil Wears Prada."
Streep thanked her co-stars Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci for the "difficult, difficult job they had -- making me seem monstrous."
Like Streep, the winner for Best Musical or Comedy Actor, "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen, drew big laughs while accepting his award. It mostly concentrated on the dark places he went during the film's uproarious nude wrestling scene, and he made mention of the lawsuits that resulted after the release of the mock-documentary.
"Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far," Baron Cohen said.
Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson took the supporting actor Globes, both for "Dreamgirls."
"Thank you David Geffen for convincing me to work for free," Murphy said with a laugh, gesturing to the studio boss. "It's all worth it now -- you were right."
Hudson became a bit more emotional when accepting her Best Supporting Actress trophy.
"You do not know how much this does for my confidence," said Hudson, fighting back tears. "Because of this, it makes me feel like I'm part of a community. It makes me feel like an actress, and you do not understand how much that feels good to say."
Hudson concluded her speech by dedicating her award to a singer from the famed girl-group The Supremes "who never got her chance."
"This award is for Florence Ballard -- you will never be forgotten," Hudson said.
Legendary director Clint Eastwood took cue from Hudson when accepting the Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for "Letters From Iwo Jima."
"You don't know what this does from my confidence," Eastwood quipped.
On the television side, "Ugly Betty" beat out previous winners like "Desperate Housewives" and "The Office" for the Best Comedy Series Globe. Alec Baldwin won the Best Actor in a Comedy Series Globe for "30 Rock."
America Ferrera was in tears as she accepted the Best Comedy Series Actress Globe for "Ugly Betty," a character who she said "is truly bringing a new face to television."
"It's such a beautiful, beautiful message about beauty that lies deeper than what we see," Ferrera said. "It's such an honor to play a role that I hear from young girls on a daily basis how it makes them feel worthy and lovable, and that they have more to offer to the world than what they thought."
"Grey's Anatomy" won the Best Television Drama Globe for the first time, while Kyra Sedgwick won for Best Actress in the category. Hugh Laurie took the Best Dramatic actor honors for "House," thanking everyone from his fellow actors to the show's production crew.
"I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew and logically that can't be the case. They can't all be wonderful," Laurie deadpanned. "Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me."
"Elizabeth I" was the big winner in the Miniseries or TV Movie race, taking the top award in the category as well as Best Supporting Actor for Jeremy Irons and Best Actress for Helen Mirren.
"Gideon's Daughter" took the other top Miniseries or TV movie prizes -- for Best Supporting Actress for Emily Blunt and Best Actor for Bill Nighy.
"I used to think prizes that prizes were damaging and divisive until I got one -- and now they seem sort of meanful and real," Nighy said as the audience laughed.
The awards are voted on by the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The group previously announced that it was honoring legendary actor-filmmaker Warren Beatty with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
"I think what I'm going to have to do is just say something here tonight that will undoubtedly just scare the hell out of all of us, and this is it: Of course I'm going to make another movie," Beatty said.
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