British contingent shares Hollywood awards

Press, 4 February 1987, Page 19

British contingent shares Hollywood awards

NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles A ■ squat, 44-year-old Cockney actor, Bob Hoskins, the actress Marlee Matlin and a searing film of the Vietnam war, “Platoon,” took the top honours in the Hollywood Golden Globe awards at the week-end. “Platoon” which takes a grim, despairing look at the infantrymen’s role in the war, was named best dramatic picture and Oliver Stone, a former Vietnam infantryman who directed and wrote the script, was named best director.

One of the film’s stars, Tom Berenger, was named best supporting actor.

Stone, who spent years raising money for the film, told the star-studded audience at the Beverly

Hilton hotel: “You are saying now you understand what happened over there and it should not happen again. I think this award belongs to the Vietnam veterans”.

The awards are given each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, made up of a section of foreign reporters in Los Angeles. The awards are closely watched by film studios, which consider them an indicator of the Oscar winners in March. Hoskins, who was named best dramatic film actor for his role of a small-time gangster who falls in love with a prostitute in "Mona Lisa,” led a contingent of British Globe winners. The British actress Maggie Smith was voted best supporting film actress for her role in “A Room with a View,” Edward Woodward was named best actor in a television drama series for “The Equaliser” and Angela Lansbury was chosen the best actress in a TV drama series for her role of an author turned detective in “Murder She Wrote.” Matlin was named best dramatic film actress for her role of a dumb woman in “Children of a Lesser God.”

Using sign language, she said through a male interpreter: “I am not much of a speaker — he is.”

The Australian Paul Hogan was named best actor in a comedy film

for his role of an easygoing crocodile hunter who goes to New York in the box office hit, “Crocodile Dundee.”

Woody Alien’s film “Hannah and Her Sisters,” a look at love among the middle class, was named best comedy film.

Sissy Spacek was named best actress in a musical or comedy for “Crimes of the Heart.”

Three award winners who received standing ovations were the slim, elegant, Loretta Young, aged 73, Olivia De Havilland aged 70, and Anthony Quinn, aged 71. Young, after 23 years in retirement, was named best actress in a television

film for her role of a matriarch in “Christmas Eve.”

De Havilland, who lives in France, received the award for best supporting actress in a television series or film for “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna”.

“I won a Golden Globe in 1949 and it has been waiting 37 years for a mate,” she said.

James Woods was honoured for best performance by. an actor in a TV movie for his role as a schizophrenic in the C.B.S. film, “Promise.” Jan Niklas was named best supporting actor in a TV series or film for “Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.”

Quinn won the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contributions to the enterainment industry. He and DeMille’s daughter, Katherine, were divorced in 1965 after 28 years of marriage. The film "The Mission,” starring Robert De Niro and Briton Jeremy Irons, won awards for the best screenplay, by Robert Bolt, and the best original score, by Ennio Morricone.

The Dutch film “The Assault” was named best foreign language picture.

“Golden Girls” received the award for best TV musical or comedy series, but “Moonlighting” stars Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd took away the honours for best actor and actress in the category.