‘Prizzi’s Honour’ wins four Golden Globes

Press, 30 January 1986, Page 18

‘Prizzi’s Honour’ wins four Golden Globes

NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles

The film “Prizzi’s Honour,” a black comedy about a love affair between two Mafia killers, has won four Golden Globes, including best actor and actress awards for Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner. The film also won awards for best comedy film and for best director, John Huston. The televised awards are presented each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, made up of a section of foreign reporters in Los Angeles, and are closely watched by the film industry as a pointer to its Oscar winners in March. The film “Out of Africa,” a sprawling saga of attempts by a Danish writer Karen Blixen, played by Meryl Streep, to hold on to the land and the man she loves, won three Globes, including one for Klaus Maria Brandauer as best supporting actor.

The film was also voted best dramatic picture and John Barry won a Globe for best original musical score for the film. The black comedienne, Whoopi Goldberg, wearing a yellow body stocking under a loose white coat was voted best dramatic actress for her role of the brutalised wife of a man with four sons in “The

Colour Purple,” and Jon Voight was named best dramatic actor for his portrayal of an escaped convict in “Runaway Train.”

Among the television awards, the series “Miami Vice,” the all-action detective series which has been criticised for its violence, won two Globes. Don Johnson was voted best actor in a dramatic television series and Edward James Olmos was named best supporting actor.

“The Golden Girls,” which deals with three women living together, was voted the best television comedy series and Estelle Getty, who plays the cantankerous mother of one of the “girls,” was named best actress in a television comedy series.

A series about a writer turned sleuth, “Murder, She Wrote,” starring Angela Lansbury, was voted the best dramatic television series for the second year in succession.

Britain’s “The Jewel in the Crown,” was named best television mini-series.

The most moving moments of the night came when three actresses of Hollywood’s golden era, Barbara Stanwyck, Sylvia Sidney and Davis, received

standing ovations. Sylvia Sidney, aged 75, was named best supporting actress in a television film for “An Early Frost.” Barbara Stanwyck, aged 78, received the association’s Cecil B. De Miile Award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.

Bette Davis, aged 77, who presented the award for best dramatic film although recovering from a stroke and a mastectomy, told the cheering audience: “I didn’t realise how much I had missed the applause.” Bill Cosby, of “The Cosby Show,” who had said earlier he thought actors should not compete against each other, was not present to receive the award for best actor in a television comedy series.

Dustin Hoffman was named best actor in a television mini-series for his starring role in “Death of a Salesman” and Liza Minnelli was named best actress for "A Time to Live.” Sharon Gless, who had seen a string of awards go to her partner Tyne Daly in the police series “Cagney and' Lacey,” was named best actress in a television dramatic series. An Argentine film “The Official Story,” a political melodrama about a joirb-

fessor who learns her adopted daughter may have been the child of a political prisoner, was named the best foreign language film.