Babel" won best drama and "Dreamgirls" was named best musical or comedy at Monday's Golden Globes.The Globes for best dramatic performances were awarded for renditions of two wildly different heads of state:
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Helen Mirren won best actress as Britain's priggish monarch Elizabeth II in "The Queen," while
Forest Whitaker took best actor as magnetic but savage Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
The crowd-pleasing musical "Dreamgirls" also won acting honors for
Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson, its three prizes possibly positioning it as the nominal favorite heading toward the
Oscars.
Sacha Baron Cohen received the Globe for best actor in a movie musical or comedy for his raucous satire "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
Meryl Streep won her sixth Golden Globe, this one as best actress in a musical or comedy for "The Devil Wears Prada," in which she plays the boss from hell at a top fashion magazine.
The best director prize went to
Martin Scorsese for the mob tale "The Departed," the second Globe for the filmmaker, boosting his prospects to finally win an Oscar after five nominations, all losses
