Nominees with local ties fared well at Hollywood's Golden Globe awards Sunday, with Maysville native George Clooney winning best actor in a comedy film for O Brother, Where Art Thou? and former Cincinnatian Sarah Jessica Parker, star of HBO's Sex in the City,winning best actress in a comedy series for the second consecutive year.

George Clooney and presenter Nicole Kidman. | ZOOM |

Sarah Jessica Parker (AP photos) | ZOOM |

        A Showtime production about Cincinnati's Mapplethorpe controversy, Dirty Pictures, won in the movie-made-for-TV category. And the movie Traffic, partially filmed in the Queen City, took best screenplay.

        Mr. Clooney, who played an escaped chain-gang prisoner in the Depression-era South, denied Jim Carrey a third consecutive win in the category.

        “I think when you list the names of the actors in this category that you've got to figure I'm going to win this,” Mr. Clooney deadpanned to the audience. Listing his competitors — Mr. Carrey, John Cusack, Robert De Niro and Mel Gibson — he cracked: “What have they done?”

        Ms. Parker, who attended Cincinnati's School for the Creative and Performing Arts, said : “I'm ill-prepared again. It's just like high school.”

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