Actress Winslet wins Golden Globe

Winslet is also up for best actress for Revolutionary Road

British actress Kate Winslet has been named best supporting actress at the Golden Globe awards in Los Angeles.

The star - who won the award for her role as a Nazi prison guard in The Reader - said she was "shocked" as she had "a habit of not winning things".

Sally Hawkins and Tom Wilkinson are among the other British recipients of honours at the ceremony, being held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The film and TV awards come from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Hawkins has been named best actress in a comedy for her role as an optimistic schoolteacher in Mike Leigh's film Happy-Go-Lucky.

Wilkinson, meanwhile, was named best supporting actor in a miniseries for his role as Benjamin Franklin in HBO period drama John Adams.

The Globes are often regarded as an indicator of the movies and actors who will go on to win honours at the Academy Awards on 22 February.

Mistake

Unlike the Oscars or the Baftas, however, the ceremony has different categories for dramas and comedies.

Brad Pitt's fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is nominated in five film categories, as are the stage-play adaptations Doubt and Frost/Nixon.

The Reader and Revolutionary Road - both starring Winslet - have four nominations each, as do Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire and Woody Allen's comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Boyle is one of three British film-makers to be nominated for best director, alongside The Reader's Stephen Daldry and Sam Mendes for Revolutionary Road.

Both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in line for acting honours

British writers, meanwhile, make up three of the five best screenplay nominees, with Simon Beaufoy, Sir David Hare and Peter Morgan recognised for Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Frost/Nixon respectively.

House star Hugh Laurie, twice winner of the prize for best actor in a TV drama, is again shortlisted for the accolade.

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award later for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field".

On Friday, Golden Globe organisers apologised for a mistake on the awards website which suggested that Anne Hathaway had won the gong for best actress in a drama.

An asterisk appeared on the site next to Hathaway's name in a list of nominees.

A statement on the Golden Globes website said the actress had been "randomly marked as a winner" by mistake and it did not mean that she had won the award for her role in Rachel Getting Married.

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Extracts from some of the nominees