"The Social Network" grabbed four awards including best picture at the Golden Globes on Sunday, trouncing top-tipped British drama "The King's Speech" which garnered only one.

In what is traditionally seen as a pointer to the Oscars next month, the movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg won best director for David Fincher as well as best screenplay and best score.

While the blockbuster movie won in four of the six categories it was nominated for, "The King's Speech" -- which had been nominated for seven awards -- walked away with only one, with best actor in a drama for Colin Firth.

The award for best actress in a drama went to Natalie Portman for her performance in the ballet-themed dance drama "Black Swan," on the set of which she met her husband-to-be Benjamin Millepied, with whom she is expecting a baby.

Portman had been up against Halle Berry ("Frankie and Alice"), Nicole Kidman ("Rabbit Hole"), Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone") and Michelle Williams ("Blue Valentine") for the best actress award.

But the night belonged to the Facebook movie, whose producer Scott Rudin hailed the film's "brilliant, brilliant script" and those who worked on it, but also thanked the Facebook founder.

"I want to thank everybody at Facebook -- Mark Zuckerberg for his willingness to allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story about communication and the way we relate to each other," he said.

Other winners at the three-hour show included "The Kids are All Right," about a lesbian couple bringing up two children who go in search of their biological father, which won two awards including best actress in a comedy or musical for Annette Bening.

Boxing movie "The Fighter", which had also been nominated in six categories, won a respectable two, for British actor Christian Bale and US actress Melissa Leo as best supporting actor and actress in the film.

Best animated feature film -- an increasingly high-profile category in recent years, as cutting technology produces ever more eye-popping blockbusters, went to "Toy Story 3".

(Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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(Agencies)