Christoph Waltz, Maggie Smith, 'Homeland' win early Golden Globes Showtime's "Homeland" series is nominated for four awards at Sunday's Golden Globes, and early on, was already halfway there. The show won for best television drama, and star Damian Lewis won for best actor in a TV drama. Two favorites took the first two awards at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Christoph Waltz, who plays a dentist turned bounty hunter in "Django Unchained," won the award for best supporting actor in a motion picture. Christoph Waltz won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a motion picture for his role in "Django Unchained." "Let me gasp," Waltz said, before thanking director Quentin Tarantino "for entrusting me with this character" and praising his castmates, one of whom, Leonardo DiCaprio, he beat for the award. Maggie Smith, whose acerbic barbs make her a favorite on PBS's "Downton Abbey," won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress in a series, miniseries or television film. Smith, 78, was not in attendance. "Game Change," HBO's political drama about the 2008 presidential election, won the award for best miniseries or television film, and star Julianne Moore won for best actress in a miniseries or television film for her role as vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin. "Game Change" leads all television nominees with five. "Lincoln" has the most movie nominations with seven, followed by "Argo" and "Django Unchained," with five each. The Golden Globes are often compared to the Academy Awards, but last week's Oscar nominees made it clear the two aren't running in exactly parallel paths. The best director category is perhaps the best example of that, with Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino are contending with Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg for the Golden Globe, but the Oscars snubbed those three big names in favor of lesser-known Michael Haneke, David O. Russell and Benh Zeitlin. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting the awards. Early on, they 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." The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents the awards. Fey and Poehler may have thrown out gentler barbs than Gervais, but they weren't afraid to land some digs. Poehler admitted she hadn't really been following the waterboarding controversy surrounding "Zero Dark Thirty," but joked of its director, Kathryn Bigelow, "when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to ("Titanic" director) James Cameron." They even got a joke in at the host of a different awards show, praising Anne 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." Presenters will include George Clooney, Halle Berry, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bradley Cooper. Jodie Foster will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, honoring the lifetime achievements of actors and filmmakers. Watch TODAY Monday morning as Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Natalie Morales report live from Hollywood on the Golden Globe winners, surprises and after-party details.