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Blockbuster sci-fi epic Avatar has been named best film drama at the Golden Globe awards, boosting its chances of further glory at the Oscars in March.

Its director James Cameron was also honored at the event, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep won the best actress prizes, with Jeff Bridges and Robert Downey Jr taking home their male equivalents.

Ricky Gervais hosted the event, the first of 2010's major Hollywood awards.

Presented each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Globes often indicate who and what will go on to receive Academy Awards.

Russell Brand has become engaged to US singer Katy Perry while on holiday, the comedian's publicist has confirmed. Brand, 34, proposed in India on New Year's Eve before their relationship was blessed by a "love guru", according to the Sun newspaper. Brand and Perry, 25, whose hits include I Kissed A Girl, have been celebrating their engagement in Thailand.

In November, Perry said the couple had "a special thing" that they wanted to keep away from the media spotlight. The wonderful thing is we both have our own kind of separate talents, careers and lives and we really respect each other, she told Radio 1's Newsbeat. She said she was not surprised by the attention their relationship had received.

We both equally get our fair share, so if you put the two of us together then maybe it will multiply, she said.

Singer Britney Spears has hit back at the gossip columns, listing the top 75 "most ridiculous" or "patently absurd" stories written about her in 2009. Published on her website, The Year in BS said there were more than 13,000 stories written about the 28-year-old.

The list includes various reports of new boyfriends, emotional breakdowns and one claiming her family was once so poor they ate squirrels. At number one was a story about Spears dating choreographer Sandip Soparrkar.

In January, the Daily Mirror reported Spears was dating Soparrkar and that she had hosted a private New Year's Eve party to introduce him to her friends and parents.

Sci-fi epic Avatar has topped the North American box office, taking $73m (£45.3m) on its opening weekend. James Cameron's much-hyped 3D film also took an estimated $232.2m (£144.1m) worldwide - the ninth biggest opening to date, 20th Century Fox said. Disney's The Princess and the Frog slipped to second, with $12.2m (£7.6m).

Drama The Blind Side dropped to three while the Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? Came in at four. The top five was rounded off by The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Avatar - set in the 22nd Century on a distant planet, Pandora, inhabited by a humanoid race - reportedly cost up to $400m (£248.2m) to make and market.

20th Century Fox's head of distribution, Chris Aronson, said there was "no question" the studio had made a good investment. "The word of mouth is something that I don't know I've ever seen in this business before," he said. Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com, said: "What they spent on this movie was totally justified and they're going to more than earn it back."

Avatar's weekend haul was the sixth biggest of the year in the US and Canada. The record for 2009 was set last month by The Twilight Saga: New Moon while the biggest opening weekend of all time in North America was $158m (£98m) for last year's The Dark Knight.

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