The winners of the Golden Globes 2013 for 2012 have been announced in the usual extravaganza of designers, applauding, back slapping and of overrunning and edited out speeches. Really that describes just about every awards ceremony there is, however it's not a bad thing because there's a strong list of winners this year.

The surprises come at the top of the list with the Best Drama where we discover that the winner is not Lincoln, a film which I expected would be first in line even before anyone had seen it, after all it is all about America, an American icon and directed by an American icon of cinema, in fact the winner is...

...Argo. Now that really is a big surprise and a great one too and the surprises kept coming with Ben Affleck winning Best Director too. I really enjoyed the film and it's a great accolade for Affleck who, as he referred to in the opening of his speech, was not nominated for Best Director in the Academy Awards.

Strange things happen when coming to the Best and Supporting Actor and Actress categories where we see Best Actor and Actress without a single entry for Les Misérables, and rightfully so since Best Actor and Actress for a Musical or Comedy have their own categories where Les Misérables won actor with Hugh Jackman but lost actress to Jennifer Lawrence instead picking up Best Supporting Actress with Anne Hathaway.

Now I don't have a problem with who won, what I'm confused about is that there are separate categories for musical and comedy for actor and actress but not supporting and so those supporting in dramatic films are much more limited in the nominations. It seems strange to me that if they are going to separate out on set of Actor/Actress categories that they don't do the same with the Supporting ones.

You can see the full awards list below through The Guardian, and you can head to the Golden Globes site for the list of winners as well:

Best drama
Winner: Argo
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Best comedy or musical
Winner: Les Misérables
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook

Best screenplay
Winner: Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Chris Terrio (Argo)
Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
David O Russell and Matthew Quick (Silver Linings Playbook)
Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best director
Winner: Ben Affleck (Argo)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best actor in a drama
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Richard Gere (Arbitrage)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best actress in a drama
Winner: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)

Best actor in a comedy or musical
Winner: Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
Jack Black (Bernie)
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Bill Murray (Hyde Park on Hudson)
Ewan MacGregor (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)

Best actress in a comedy or musical
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Emily Blunt (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)
Judi Dench (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)
Maggie Smith (Quartet)
Meryl Streep (Hope Springs)

Best supporting actress
Winner: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Amy Adams (The Master)
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy)

Best supporting actor
Winner: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Alan Arkin (Argo)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Best foreign film
Winner: Amour
A Royal Affair
Kon-Tiki
Rust and Bone
Untouchable

Best animation
Winner: Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

Best original score
Winner: Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
Alexandre Desplat (Argo)
Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)
Tom Tyker, Johnny Klimek, Rein Holdheil (Cloud Atlas)
John Williams (Lincoln)

Best original song
Winner: Skyfall (Skyfall)
'For You' (Act of Valor)
Not Running Anymore (Stand Up Guys)
Safe and Sound (The Hunger Games)
Suddenly (Les Misérables)
"Life of Pi" - Fox 2000; 20th Century Fox

Television drama
Winner: Homeland
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey: Season 2
The Newsroom

Actress, TV drama
Winner: Claire Danes - Homeland
Connie Britton - Nashville
Glenn Close - Damages
Michelle Dockery - Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife

Actor, TV drama
Winner: Damian Lewis - Homeland
Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels - The Newsroom
Jon Hamm - Mad Men

Comedy
Winner: Girls
The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Modern Family
Smash

Actress, comedy
Winner: Lena Dunham - Girls
Zooey Deschanel - New Girl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation

Actor, comedy
Winner: Don Cheadle - House of Lies
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Louis CK - Louie
Matt LeBlanc - Episodes
Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory

TV movie or miniseries
Winner: Game Change
The Girl
Hatfields & McCoys
The Hour
Political Animals

Actress, mini series or musical
Winner: Julianne Moore - Game Change
Nicole Kidman - Hemingway & Gellhorn
Jessica Lange - American Horror Story: Asylum
Sienna Miller - The Girl
Sigourney Weaver - Political Animals

Actor, miniseries of TV movie
Winner: Kevin Costner - Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock
Woody Harrelson - "Game Change
Clive Owen - Hemingway & Gellhorn
Toby Jones - The Girl

Supporting actress
Winner: Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey
Hayden Panettiere - Nashville
Archie Panjabi - The Good Wife
Sarah Paulson - Game Change
Sofía Vergara - Modern Family

Supporting actor
Winner: Ed Harris - Game Change
Max Greenfield - New Girl
Danny Huston - Magic City
Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family
Mandy Patinkin - Homeland

Cecil B DeMille award
Winner: Jodie Foster

Well deserved Jodie Foster I think she's a wonderful actress and director and I really want to see more of her in film. She's fifty, my lord she looks fantastic.