Anne Hathaway, Adele, Jennifer Lawrence win early Golden Globes In what many critics are predicting could be a preview of February's Academy Awards, Anne Hathaway took home the Golden Globe Sunday night for best supporting actress in a motion picture for her role as Fantine in "Les Miserables." "Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt," Hathaway said. She went on to pay tribute to fellow nominee Sally Field, thanking Field for demonstrating how an actress can progress from youthful comic roles to more serious parts. Hathaway also thanked her mother, "who I saw perform this role when I was eight." Kathleen Hathaway played Fantine in the first U.S. tour of "Les Miserables." Her fellow "Les Mis" star, Hugh Jackman, took home the award for best actor in a motion picture musical or comedy. "Les Miserables is a project of passion," he said. It took a lot of courage to make it. Jennifer Lawrence won the award for best actress in a motion picture musical or comedy for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook." Upon taking the stage, Lawrence looked at her award and joked, "Oh, what does it say? I beat Meryl (Streep)! Showtime's "Homeland" series was nominated for four Golden Globes, and claimed three of four. The show won for best television drama, and stars Damian Lewis and Claire Danes won acting awards. Lewis dedicated his award to his late mother. "Mom, I love you," he said. Danes thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the awards, for "being so generous to me over the years," noting "I was up here when I was 15." In 1994, Danes won the same award for her role as Angela Chase in "My So-Called Life." Director Quentin Tarantino, who's also nominated for best director, won the best screenplay award for his bloody slavery drama "Django Unchained." The director thanked his cast and the friends to whom he read scenes, and admitted "This is a damn surprise, and I'm very happy to be surprised." Singer Adele, a nine-time Grammy winner, won her first Golden Globe for best original song for "Skyfall," the theme to the latest James Bond movie. The singer, 24, gave birth to her first child, a son, in October. Singer Adele claimed the Golden Globe for best original song for "Skyfall." But the biggest standing ovation of the evening came when former president Bill Clinton walked on stage to introduce "Lincoln" which leads all nominees with seven. Award co-host Amy Poehler, hosting the show Tina Fey, later joked, "That was Hilary Clinton's husband! So exciting! First-time nominee Lena Dunham won the award for best actress in a television musical or comedy series for her starring role in HBO's "Girls." After praising her fellow nominees and thanking her cast and family, Dunham said her award was "for everyone woman who has ever felt there wasn't a space for her. This show has made a space for me. Dunham was back on stage again later when "Girls" won the Golden Globe for best TV series, comedy or musical, and thanked the show's cast for showing her "the meaning of nakedness, both emotional and physical." "Let me gasp," Waltz said, before thanking director Tarantino "for entrusting me with this character" and praising his castmates, one of whom, Leonardo DiCaprio, he beat for the award. Kevin Costner won the award for best performance in a miniseries or television film for his role as Devil Anse Hatfield in the History Channel miniseries "Hatfields and McCoys." "Kind of a short walk and a long career and a lot of people to thank along the way," Costner said. He mused on the first time he ever attended the Golden Globes, remembering how "no one said anything to me" and how inspired he was by watching a retrospective of the career of Gregory Peck. Ed Harris, who played Sen. John McCain in "Game Change," won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a series, miniseries or television film. "Life of Pi," based on the bestselling Yann Martel novel, won the award for best original score in a motion picture for Mychael Danna. Austrian film "Amour" won the award for best foreign film, with Austria native Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing the film's win. Pixar's "Brave" won for best animated feature film. Early on, Fey and Poehler directed a joke at controversial former ceremony host Ricky Gervais, noting that "when you run afoul of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, they make you host the show two more times." They even got a joke in at the host of a different awards show, praising Hathaway's role as the abandoned young mother in "Les Miserables" by saying they "had not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since (Hathaway was) on stage with James Franco at the Oscars." Fey also promised that the three-hour ceremony would wrap up by 11 p.m., or "11 Dark Thirty at the latest."