"Social network" electrifies NYC Golden Globes (Reuters)

BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) – Facebook film "The Social Network" won four Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, including best drama, making it a front-runner in Oscar race Hollywood after sweeping many honors from critics and industry groups in recent weeks.

"Social network" also won the award for Best Director for David Fincher, best screenplay for writer Aaron Sorkin and best musical score, written by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The film tells the story of the founding of the social networking site Facebook, an international phenomenon with 500 million users that was started in a dorm in college by the founder, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.

The founder of Facebook not cooperating with the creators of the film, and the film is a piece of fiction. However, producer Scott Rudin and Sorkin emphasized creating that Zuckerberg was a phenomenon that has changed the way the world communicates.

"I want to thank everyone at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for his willingness to use his life and work as a metaphor for communication and how they relate to each other."

Another big winner of the Golden Globe Award was "The Kids are all right," which contained two lesbian parents whose children search for their sperm donor father. "Kids" also picked up the award for best actress in a comedy film for his star Annette Bening, that one of the mothers appeared in the film.

British actor Colin Firth was named best actor – motion picture drama for his portrait of King George VI in stuttering "King's Speech," while Natalie Portman took home the trophy Golden Globe Award for best actress in a drama with "Black Swan".

Backstage, Firth was asked about his chances for an Oscar in the same role, but the actor said he could do was to get through his big night on Sunday.

SUGGESTIONS IN THE OSCAR RACE

The Golden Globe Awards, which are by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are one of the most important shows Hollywood's most prized honors leader for the film industry, Oscar, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Many observers of the cinema to watch the winners of the Golden Globes and other honors for clues such as movies, musicians, filmmakers and writers may win Oscar. This year, "social network" has swept many top honors and added the Golden Globe for the cache of trophies.

In other movie honors at Golden Globe, Paul Giamatti won the award for best actor in a comedy film for her role as a man hit in "version of Barney."

Boxing drama "The Fighter" garnered two Golden Globes for Christian Bale as an actor depicting a fighter of addicts and Melissa Leo as an actress playing the mother of Christian Bale's character.

"Toy Story 3" was named best animated film to what the Director Lee Unkrich called "" a movie with animation that beat with a human heart. " And "In a world of Denmark better" was named best foreign language film.

Host, comedian Ricky Gervais, had the show a start by poking fun at the movies like "The Tourist" actor Charlie Sheen, who in recent weeks has been reported to holidays wildly, causing concern for the CBS television network that airs his comedy "two and a half men".

Gervais, also refer to a scandal that has shaken the HFPA this year. A former publicist cited the group supporting its member received favors in exchange for nominations by film studios.

Before the show, glamorous actresses in colourful clothes and jewelry sparkling paraded down the red carpet. Natalie Portman, wore a light pink Viktor and Rolf dress with a red flower across the front, and Nicole Kidman wore a cream-colored dress, off-the-shoulder from Prada.

Michael Douglas, fresh from the treatment for throat cancer and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones revealed for the show. Douglas presented the trophy for best dramatic film and received a standing ovation.

"We have just got to be an easier way to get a standing ovation," he said. "Thank you all. Needless to say, I am very, very, very happy to be here tonight.

Unlike Oscar, Golden Globe voters honor actors and TV programs. HBO crime series "Boardwalk Empire" was named best TV drama. Its star, Steve Buscemi, won the best actor in a drama.

Music "joy" picked up three honors: best TV comedy, best supporting actor for Chris Colfer who plays a high school student gay and Jane Lynch, a scheming cheerleading coach.

"Carlos" was named best film made-TV. Al Pacino took the Golden Globe Award for best actor in a TV movie or miniseries for "You don't know Jack" and Claire Danes won best actress in a TV movie or mini-series with "Temple grandin."

(Editing by Stacey Joyce)

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