I have to admit, and it's been very obvious from the site this year, I've been disinterested in the awards announcements. I've been waiting to write up all the various critics nominations and winners in one post and the Golden Globes snuck up on me, and I'm surprisingly not that bothered, even with seeing the winners.

Partly it's because writing about the awards the last few years has produced so little excitement from the readers, and partly because there's been just so much hype about one award category that I was growing tired of it all.

However, here are the Golden Globe winners for 2009, with a couple of surprises and a couple that aren't, including one default win.

Yes you can have guessed from that comment that Heath Ledger was awarded, and I say that very carefully, the Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight (Filmstalker review). To be fair looking at his fellow nominees you wouldn't be thinking that there are tons of deserving winners, but then I still don't believe that his acting was everything that it was hyped up to be, score, direction and writing played a stronger than usual part in that role.

As for other awards, well I am surprised and delighted to see Danny Boyle and Slumdog Millionaire (Filmstalker review) do so well, although I am surprised he took the Best Director himself, after all he did share the directors credit.

Well done to Kate Winslet for Best Actress in Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress in The Reader, which really is a surprise as I thought it would be one or the other, not both. Colin Farrell deserves a mention for Best Actor in a comedy for In Bruges, and a surprising but from all accounts well deserved win for Mickey Rourke for Best Actor in The Wrestler.

Here are the full awards from the Golden Globes site, I'm not going to mention the television awards as I think that it's ridiculous that The Shield, Battlestar Galactica or even NCIS aren't even mentioned on there!

FILM
BEST FEATURE - DRAMA: Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road

BEST FEATURE - COMEDY: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Mamma Mia!

DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry -The Reader
David Fincher -The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes -Revolutionary Road

ACTOR – DRAMA: Mickey Rouke - The Wrestler
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

ACTRESS – DRAMA: Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long

ACTOR - COMEDY OR MUSICAL: Colin Farrell - In Bruges
Javier Bardem - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
James Franco - Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman - Last Chance Harvey

ACTRESS - COMEDY OR MUSICAL: Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Rebecca Hall - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!
Emma Thompson - Last Chance Harvey

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes - The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kate Winslet - The Reader
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

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

BEST SCORE: A. R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
James Newton Howard - Defiance
Hans Zimmer - Frost/Nixon

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: The Wrestler from The Wrestler - Music & Lyrics By: Bruce Springsteen
Down To Earth from Wall-E - Music By: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman; Lyrics By: Peter Gabriel
Gran Torino from Gran Torino - Music By: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens; Lyrics By: Jamie Cullum
I Thought I Lost You from Bolt - Music & Lyrics By: Miley Cyrus, Jeffrey Steele
Once In A Lifetime from Cadillac Records - Music & Lyrics By: Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott Mcfarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring, Jody Street

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Wall-E
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Waltz with Bashir - Israel
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) - Germany
Everlasting Moments (Maria larssons eviga ögonblick) - Sweden
Gomorrah (Gomorra) - Italy
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t’aime) - France

TV
TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA: Mad Men
Dexter
House
In Treatment
True Blood

MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION: John Adams
A Raisin in the Sun
Bernard and Doris
Cranford
Recount

TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL: 30 Rock
Californication
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA: Gabriel Byrne - In Treatment
Michael C. Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - The Tudors

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA: Anna Paquin - True Blood
Sally Field - Brothers And Sisters
Mariska Hargitay - Law And Order: Special Victims Unit
January Jones - Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL: Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Christina Applegate - Samantha Who?
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Debra Messing - The Starter Wife
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL: Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carell - The Office
Kevin Connelly - Entourage
David Duchovny - Californication
Tony Shalhoub - Monk

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Laura Linney - John Adams
Judi Dench - Cranford
Catherine Keener - An American Crime
Shirley Maclaine - Coco Chanel
Susan Sarandon - Bernard And Doris

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Paul Giamatti - John Adams
Ralph Fiennes - Bernard and Doris
Kevin Spacey - Recount
Kiefer Sutherland - 24: Redemption
Tom Wilkinson - Recount

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Tom Wilkinson - John Adams
Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
Denis Leary - Recount
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Blair Underwood - In Treatment

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Laura Dern - Recount
Eileen Atkins - Cranford
Melissa George - In Treatment
Rachel Griffiths - Brothers And Sisters
Dianne Wiest - In Treatment