Glamour Returns

This year, audiences should expect a return to glamour and a close race for the HFPA's top award, best dramatic film.

Pundits give "Slumdog Millionaire," about a young Indian man competing for love and money on a TV game show, the best shot of beating "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an epic love story starring Pitt as a man who ages backward.

But the experts also caution to not ignore "Frost/Nixon," which recounts interviews of disgraced former US president Richard Nixon by British TV host David Frost. The other two nominees are dramas "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road."

In two other major races -- best dramatic actor and actress -- the battles are too close to call.

Among actresses, Anne Hathaway as a recovering drug addict in "Rachel Getting Married," will see her key competition from Meryl Streep playing a nun who suspects child sex abuse in her Catholic school in "Doubt."

But they face strong challenges by Angelina Jolie in "The Changeling," Kate Winslet for "Revolutionary Road" and Kristen Scott Thomas for French film, "I've Loved You So Long."

The dramatic actor race pits veteran Frank Langella playing the former president in "Frost/Nixon" against Sean Penn as slain gay activist Harvey Milk in "Milk," Pitt in "Benjamin Button," comeback kid Mickey Rourke for "The Wrestler" and DiCaprio as a frustrated husband in "Revolutionary Road."

Finally, some viewers won't even watch the awards so much as the red carpet fashion, and despite the dour (死气沉沉的) US economy that has left many Americans saving their pennies, Hollywood is expected to arrive in style at the Golden Globes.

"During times like this, America turns to celebrities to take them away from that. It's really the glamour of Hollywood that people want to see," said style expert Michael O'Connor.

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