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Sean Penn, who starred in "Mystic River," won the award for best actor in a motion picture, drama at the 61st annual Golden Globes awards held here Sunday night.

Penn plays a grief-stricken father, whose daughter has been murdered, in Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River."

Penn, one of America's top actors, was not present for the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Eastwood accepted the award on his behalf.

Meanwhile, the best actress award went to Charlize Theron, who starred in the murder thriller "Monster."

In other latest awards, the Afghanistan movie "Osama" won the award for best foreign language film.

And Peter Jackson won the award for best director for his efforts to create the fantasy trilogy "The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King," which has generated more than 337 million US dollars in North American box office in six weeks since its first release late last year.

"I never realized that seven years on this movie would end up turning me into a Hobbit," Jackson joked, referring to the shortish, big-footed magical characters in the J.R.R. Tolkien stories.

"The Return of the King" had also won two other awards for best original score and best original song.

Earlier, Bill Murray, starring in "Lost in Translation," and Diane Keaton, in "Something Gotta Give," won respectively the awards for best actor and actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy at the 61st annual Golden Globe awards held here Sunday night.

And, "Mystic River's" Tim Robbins and "Cold Mountain's" Renee Zellweger took early trophies for best supporting actor and actress in motion picture category, respectively.

Zellweger won the supporting movie actress award for playing a tough woman in the US Civil War epic "Cold Mountain," which is the leading contender with eight nominations.

Zellweger, who previously won two lead comedy actress Golden Globes for "Nurse Betty" in 2001 and last year for "Chicago," said that playing in "Cold Mountain" was "one of my greatest joys."

"Angels in America" won three Globes early, including Best Television Movie or Mini-Series and Best Actress for Meryl Streep.

In the Television Comedy category, early winners included the British television series "The Office" and Sarah Jessica Parker for "Sex and the City," while the television drama winners were Anthony

LaPaglia won Best Actor Globe for "Without a Trace," while Frances Conroy nabbed the Best Actress Globe for "Six Feet Under."

The ceremony, which kicked off the Hollywood awarding season, is held by Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It came just two days before the announcement of the Oscar nominations due on Tuesday morning.

Winning Globes awards will boost audience interest in any films that could result in higher box office revenues, and increase their chances of taking the top honor of more prestigious Academy Awards scheduled on Feb. 29 this year.

In the past, many Globes winners went on to become Oscar winners, including "Titanic," "American Beauty" and "Gladiator."