DHAKA: Hollywood hits the red carpet on Sunday for the 71st annual Golden Globes, with a packed cast of A-list nominees vying to win the first major honours of Tinseltown’s annual awards season.

Harrowing saga ‘12 Years A Slave’ and crime caper American Hustle are likely frontrunners at the Globes, which, unlike the season-closing Oscars in March, are split between dramas and musical/comedy films.

The race for glory features the strongest field in years, with other contenders including 3-D space drama Gravity, Somali piracy tale Captain Phillips, and Martin Scorsese’s scandal epic ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’.

On the small screen, increasingly important as big-screen stars and money migrate to television, Netflix’s pioneering House Of Cards could win more gold, as could cult hit Breaking Bad, after its finale in September, reports The Straits Times.

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Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor