Joaquin Phoenix has won Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards for his role in the American psychological thriller film - Joker. 

Phoenix was nominated alongside Christian Bale - Ford v Ferrari, Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory, Adam Driver - Marriage Story and Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes.

After receiving the award, Phoenix urged everyone to do more to help fight the Australian bushfires.

Actress Renee Zellweger won Best Actress at the Golden Globe Awards for her role in the biographical film - Judy which is about American singer and actress Judy Garland.

The film follows Judy Garland's career during the last year of her life when she relocated her stage career to Britain.

After some initial success for a run of sell-out concerts at the Talk of the Town in London, her efforts eventually stop making progress and even start to worsen due to health issues.

Zellweger was nominated alongside Cynthia Erivo - Harriet, Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story, Soairse Ronan - Little Women and Charlize Theron - Bombshell.

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