01-11-2009, 11:18 PM
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[SIZE="4"]Golden Globes shine spotlight on Heath Ledger
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BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) - A pair of British actresses and the late Heath Ledger in his villainous role as the Joker in Batman movie "The Dark Knight" won key Golden Globe awards on Sunday as the Hollywood honors reached their midpoint.
The award for Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose last year, was accepted by "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan who said the loss of Ledger was like "a hole ripped in modern cinema."
"All of us who worked with Heath accept this with an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride," Nolan said onstage, "He will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten."
The Golden Globe Awards are given out by some 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and annually are one of Hollywood's top honors.
They are closely watched for clues as to which films might vie for Oscars, the world's top move awards given out in February by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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