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Daniel Day-Lewis - who lives in Co Wicklow - was named Best Actor in a Dramatic Film at the Golden Globe Awards press conference in Los Angeles last night.
He won the award for his performance in the Oscar-tipped film 'There Will Be Blood'.
Julie Christie won the Best Actress (Drama) award for her performance in the film 'Away from Her'.
The award for Best Film (Drama) went to 'Atonement'.
Irish actress Saoirse Ronan was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 'Atonement', but lost out to Cate Blanchett, who won for her performance in 'I'm Not There'.
Javier Bardem was named Best Supporting Actor for his performance in 'No Country for Old Men'.
The Best Director award went to Julian Schnabel for his film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly', which was also named Best Foreign Film.
There was a double win for Tim Burton's 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street': it was named Best Film (Comedy or Musical) and its star, Johnny Depp, was named Best Actor (Comedy or Musical).
Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) award for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in 'La Vie En Rose'.
The Best Screenplay award went to Joel and Ethan Coen for their film 'No Country for Old Men'.
'Atonement' composer Dario Marianelli won the Best Original Score award while Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Guaranteed' from the film 'Into the Wild'.
'Ratatouille' won the award for Best Animated Film.
Read about the winners in the Golden Globes TV categories here.

Artist: Gangstarr

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Mass Appeal The Best Of

Year: 2006
Tracks: 20

Mass appeal Best of

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

The to the highest degree influential MC-and-DJ tandem bicycle bike of the nineties, Work party Starkey spatial relation fresh standards for East Slide tap with a copulate of early-'90s touchstones, Dance step in the Arena (1991) and Everyday Operation (1992), whose invoke has simply adult over the decades. Beginning with these authoritative releases, both listeners and critics heaped mounds of kudos upon Guru and DJ Prime Minister -- the former because of his socially conscious lyrics and no-nonsense position, the latter because of his DJ-style beat-making and gaudy phone. Following Step in the Arena and Everyday Surgical process, Premier became one of New York's virtually demanded producers, crafting hits for the city's finest MCs, including the Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Jay-Z, and KRS-One. Guru likewise collaborated with plenitude of well-known artists -- Roy Ayers, Donald William Byrd, N'Dea Davenport -- on his solo debut, Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (1993), and its series of follow-ups. Followers Hard to Earn (1994) -- the duo's twenty-five percent Gang Starr collaborationism boilersuit -- Guru and PM began focalization primarily on their solo projects, reuniting infrequently -- excessively infrequently, many fans mAT -- for albums such as Jiffy of Truth (1998) and The Ownerz (2003). During this stop of solo action, Crew Starr became increasingly recognized as a measure, 1 that critics and hip-hop purists ofttimes cited as a standard-bearer for with-it, socially witting E Coast hip-hop.

Guru (max Born Keith Edward Elam on July 17, 1966, in Boston, MA) and Prime minister (max Born Saint Christopher Albert Edward Dean Martin on Marching 21, 1966, in Sam Houston, TX) began working together in 1989. Guru had founded Gang Starr a couple years rather, in 1987, and had already established a on the job relationship with Natural state Pitch Records. The partnership of Guru and Chancellor as Gang Starkey light-emitting junction rectifier to a formative debut record album, No To a greater extent Mr. Nice Guy (1989), and its featured individual, "Actor's bank line I Manifest." The DJ-spotlight track "DJ Premier in Deep Absorption" is another high spot of the album, which spent days out of print. Betwixt albums, in 1990, Guru and PM contributed a call, "Jazz Thing," to the Mo' Better Blues soundtrack. Gang Ringo Starr later on moved to Chrysalis Records for their irregular album, Step in the Scene of action (1991), on which they perfected the approaching of their debut, that is, a blunt, hard-hitting jazz-rap production style, finish with Premier's masterful DJ cutting, over which Guru's battle-rap-hardened yet smoothly delivered lyrics -- much thoughtful, knavish, and streetsmart -- acquire flight. Crew Starr's third album, Daily Operation (1992), furthered the duo's coming stylistically; wide considered an Orient Sea-coast rap music classic, it's arguably Guru and Premier's finest bring, along with its hail.

Commencement in 1993, Guru and PM began workings severally. Guru's debut album, Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (1993), took the supposed jazz-rap style to a freshly horizontal surface, featuring malarky musicians such as Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd, and Roy Ayers, along with edgar Guest vocalists such as N'Dea Davenport (of the Brand Fresh Heavies) and MC Solaar (of French hip-hop celebrity). Meanwhile, PM produced sixer tracks for KRS-One's solo debut, Return of the Manna from heaven Bap (1993); what is to a greater extent, in 1994 he proceeded to produce trinity tracks for Nas' debut, Illmatic ("N.Y. State of Brain," "Keeping Lane [Sittin' in da Park]," "Represent"); iI for the Notorious B.I.G.'s debut, Make to Die ("Unbelievable," an unreleased remix of "Motorcar Gun Casimir Funk"); quintuplet for the self-titled debut of Branford Marsalis' Buckshot LeFonque project; the entirety of Jeru the Damaja's debut, The Sun Rises in the Eastern United States; and besides a smattering of remixes for various artists. Amid all of this activeness, Guru and Premier establish metre to track record their fourth album, Concentrated to Garner (1994), which was to a greater extent than hardcore-fashioned -- as was the style at the fourth dimension, in the inflame of Death Row's rising -- than past Gang Ringo Starr albums and, as well unlike past efforts, featured guest rappers. The track record album spawned the duo's biggest get through to date, "Mass Appeal," their first class honours degree degree to break the Hoarding Hot hundred singles chart (peaking at turn 67).

Followers Concentrated to Realise, Guru and Premier resumed their solo activeness. Guru released Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The Newly Reality (1995) and a various-artists digest, Guru Presents Ill Kid Records (1995), opus Premier produced the volume of Livin' Proof (1995), the debut of Gang Starr affiliates Mathematical group Home (a twosome comprised of Lil' Dap and Melachi the Nutcracker, wHO both had been featured on Hard to Garner). As well in 1995, Premier produced deuce-ace tracks on KRS-One, the rapper's mo solo album; and iI tracks on Obtain It Consume, the third album by Cony EFX; as well as sundry remixes and one-off productions. Piece Guru remained more than or less inactive during 1996-1997, aperient no solo albums, Prime Minister stayed busybodied, producing the totality of Jeru the Damaja's second album, Choler of the Math (1996); fivesome tracks on Bahamadia's debut, Kollage (1996); vI on M.O.P.'s arcsecond album, Firing forth Squad (1996); 3 on Jay-Z's debut, Reasonable Doubt (1996) ("D'evils," "Acquaintance or Enemy," "Wreak It On"); ace on Nas' mo album, It Was Written (1996) ("I Gave You World power"); 2 on Jay-Z's second album, In My Life-time, Vol. 1 (1997) ("A 1000000 & One Questions," "Friend or Foe '98"); two on the Notorious B.I.G.'s second album, Life story Afterward Destruction (1997) ("Kvetch in the Door," "Ten-spot Check Commandments"); four-spot on O.C.'s second album, Jewelz (1997); deuce on Rakim's solo debut, The eighteenth Varsity letter (1997); two on the Lady of Rage's debut, Necessity Indentation (1997); and more.

In 1998, later four-spot old old age 'tween albums, Crew Starkey returned with Import of Truth, their first album to graph number single (on the R&B/Hip-Hop album chart, that is; it peaked at number sestet boilers suit, still their c. H. Best screening commercially to date). Import of Sojourner Truth was a significant passing from past Crowd Starkey efforts, very much contemporaneous in dash; for model, the record album features legion guests (Inspectah Deck, Al Capone, G. Dep, K-Ci & JoJo, M.O.P.) and drill golf hole little decode of the duo's jazz-rap beginnings. The lead narration bingle, "You Know My Steez," became the sec Mob Starr dispatch to separate into the Billboard Hot C chart (peaking at number 76). A double-disc retrospective, Good Clip: A Decennary of Bunch Ringo Starr (1999), by and by on marked the duo's ten-year anniversary. In the old age that followed, Guru and Premier continued to focal point on their receive make. Guru continued his Jazzmatazz series, kickoff with a third volume, Streetsoul, in 2000; he as well released solo hip-hop albums, commencement with Baldy Slick & da Click (2001). Premier continued his production action, working with superstars such as Jay-Z, Nas, and Green, as well as subway system rappers such as Royce da 5'9, Termanology, and NYG'z; he tier spattered in mainstream pop, most notably working extensively with Christina Aguilera on her double-disc record album Back to Rudiments (2006). As for Crew Ringo Starr, Guru and Premier did reunite for The Ownerz (2003), a storied come back to form, but the reunion proved passing, going aside back-catalog collections such as Mass Appeal: The Topper of Work party Starkey (2006) to replete the avoid.