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'Martian,' 'Revenant' take top Golden Globes

Alejandro Inarritu's bloody frontier thriller "The Revenant" landed an upset win at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards, taking best film, best director and best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio.

A year after Inarritu's "Birdman" took top honors at the Academy Awards, his follow-up swept three of the top awards at the Globes on Sunday.

Inarritu added best director, besting the favored Ridley Scott, director of the science-fiction survival tale "The Martian." That film, however, won best film comedy and best actor in a comedy for Matt Damon.

Jennifer Lawrence continued her Golden Globes hot streak by winning best actress in a motion picture comedy for her portrayal of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano in "Joy."

This is her third Golden Globe win for a performance in a David O. Russell movie. She previously won a supporting award for "American Hustle" and for her leading role in "Silver Linings Playbook," and the trend was not lost on Lawrence.

"Every time I'm up here is because of you," Lawrence said in her acceptance speech, which focused mainly on Russell.

"Thank you for teaching me so much, professionally, personally," Lawrence continued. "I want us to be buried next to each other. I really do."

Lawrence was up against nominees Lily Tomlin ("Grandma"), Melissa McCarthy ("Spy"), Maggie Smith ("The Lady in the Van") and her friend Amy Schumer ("Trainwreck") in the category.

Lawrence and Schumer's friendship has become the stuff of pop culture legend. The two have vacationed together, are co-writing a movie, and even co-presented on stage at the awards on Sunday night.

Unlike the best actress drama category, the comedy category is not expected to help predict eventual Oscar nominees, save for Lawrence. Notably, though, Lawrence did not receive a Screen Actors Guild nomination for "Joy."

Denzel Washington was given the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award, with his "Philadelphia" co-star Tom Hanks saluting him as an actor with the "mysterious power not just to hold our attention, but demand it."

Hanks recited a list of legendary actors - Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and the like - that command the most respect in the industry.

"The list is finite," Hanks said. "The club is exclusive. But it includes the actor who is being given the Cecil B. DeMille Award tonight," said Hanks, who said he was fighting a cold.

Washington brought his family onstage for a speech that appeared to be cut short by a failure to bring his glasses with him. His wife reminded him twice that he needed them - and the second time, he agreed.

Washington won Oscars for roles in "Glory" and "Training Day," and has a long list of credits including "Malcolm X," "The Hurricane," "Flight" and "Man on Fire."

In his speech, he thanked his mother for convincing his father that the family needed light bulbs more powerful than 25 watts.

"God bless you all," he said.

Jon Hamm won a farewell Golden Globe Sunday in his last chance to be honored as Don Draper in "Mad Men," a sentimental choice among television awards that emphasized the medium's diversity and put the spotlight on some lesser-known performances.

AMC's "Mad Men" ended its run with a memorable scene, ad man Draper supposedly getting the idea for a Coke commercial that was a landmark in the 1970s. Hamm, in accepting his second Golden Globe for his role, joked that he appreciated writers not taking his suggestion to end the series with music from the British band Chumbawamba.

"Thank you so much to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for supporting our show for as long as you did - all the way to the end," he said.

Pop music star Lady Gaga made the transition to acting in a big way, winning a Globe for her role as the Countess in "American Horror Story: Hotel." She recalled another woman who started in music, Cher, and her role in "Moonstruck."

"I wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a singer," Gaga said, "but music worked out first."

It was an important night for the USA network, which has been trying to establish edgier fare. Its new series "Mr. Robot" won the Globe for best television drama, and veteran Christian Slater was a popular choice at the Beverly Hills Hotel for his best supporting actor award. He plays the title role in "Mr. Robot," a hacker who tries to recruit series star Rami Malek into his anarchist group.

"Thank you, Hollywood, for letting me do what I love to do for the last four decades," Slater said.

Appropriately enough, Taraji P. Henson passed out cookies while coming to the stage to accept her best actress award in a drama. That's the name of her character, the ex-convict matriarch in Fox's sensation "Empire."

"Cookies for everyone tonight," she said. "My treat."

Rachel Bloom immediately burst into tears upon learning that she had won best actress in a comedy for her work in the freshman series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" on the CW network. The quasi-musical has won critical plaudits but has struggled to find an audience.

She recalled how another network rejected the pilot, and then six other networks in a single day turned down a chance to acquire it.

"We knew it was good and Mark Pedowitz of the CW picked it out and he's the one that saved us," Bloom said. A year earlier, the CW's Gina Rodriguez won the same award for "Jane the Virgin," which airs back-to-back with "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" on Mondays.

Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle," about backstage battles in New York City's classical music world, won the Globe for best comedy or musical and its star, Gael Garcia Bernal, won best actor for his role as the conductor Rodrigo De Souza.

Jeffrey Tambor of "Transparent" was considered such a favorite by insiders that fellow nominee Aziz Ansari pretended to read a book, "How to Lose to Jeffrey Tambor With Dignity" as he was introduced.

"This is incredible," Bernal said. "This is a really big surprise."

Veteran Maura Tierney won a supporting actress for her work as the spurned wife in Showtime's "The Affair," a role that required a lot of quiet seething. She poked fun at her co-star, Dominic West, who she said should have had his own special category - best performance in a role that makes every woman watching hate him. He handled it with grace, she said.

The victory of "Wolf Hall" in the category of best TV movie or miniseries led to an international political pitch. Producer Colin Callender said programs like the 1500s period piece would not have been made without a strong BBC, and he urged the British government not to weaken it. The win was a boost for PBS, which broadcasts the program in the United States, as it faces the ending of its popular "Downton Abbey."

Oscar Isaac won a supporting actor award for his work in "Show Me a Hero," the HBO limited series about the struggle to build public housing in Yonkers, N.Y.

In this image released by NBC, Mel Gibson introduces the nominated film, "Mad Max: Fury Road," at the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. Associated Press
In this image released by NBC, Lady Gaga accepts the award for best actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role in, "American Horror Story: Hotel", at the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. Associated Press
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