From Charlize Theron to Gerard Butler (and a woman who was probably not his date), everyone came out to party it up last night after the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Stars spotted at the Sunset Tower hotel were Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessica Alba and Michelle Williams, and earlier in the evening, Alba tweeted the picture below and wrote, "Whattup! #GoldenGlobes hot Fire Marshall's." Ahh, she may not know when to use apostrophes (or how to spell), but she certainly is a hottie!

George Clooney beat our Brad Pitt tonight at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

The friendly rivals have been verbally sparring ahead of this year's awards season, with Clooney seen as the frontrunner for Best Film with Ides of March and Best Actor for The Descendants. Well tonight half of the critics' prediction came true, with Clooney nabbing the prize for Best Actor in a Drama. Clooney, in his acceptance speech, said he admired Pitt for his humanitarian work and for his work in film.

Michelle Williams won the prize for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for My Week With Marilyn - the same aware Marilyn Monroe herself won for Some Like It Hot. Williams was sure to pay homage to the icon "for putting in my hands this same award that Marilyn Monroe herself won over 50 years ago."

Meryl Streep won the aware for Best Dramatic Actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

The Artist continues to be an Oscar frontrunner, having picked up awards for its leading man, Jean Dujardin, for Best Actor; for its musical score; and for Best Comedy/Musical.

Best Director went to Martin Scorsese for Hugo.

Madonna even won a prize at tonight's film awards ... but not for her directing of her first feature film W.E., but for a song on the soundtrack.

Here's a full list of the winners in the top categories of the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture (Drama): The Descendants

Best Actor in a Movie (Drama): George Clooney, The Descendants

Best Picture (Comedy or Musical): The Artist

Best Actress in a Movie (Drama): Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Best Actor in a Movie (Comedy or Musical): Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Best TV Series (Comedy or Musical): Modern Family

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Supporting Actress in a Movie: Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Actor in a TV Series (Comedy or Musical): Matt LeBlanc, Episodes

Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama): Claire Danes, Homeland

Best Foreign Language Movie: A Separation (Iran)

Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story

Best Screenplay: Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen

Best Animated Movie: The Adventures of Tintin

Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones

Best Actress in a Movie (Comedy or Musical): Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Idris Elba, Luther

Best Original Song: “Masterpiece,” W.E.

Best Original Score: Ludovic Bource, The Artist

Best TV Series (Drama): Homeland

Best Actor in a TV Series (Drama): Kelsey Grammer, Boss

Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie: Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce

Best Miniseries or TV Movie: Downton Abbey

Best Actress in a TV Series (Comedy or Musical): Laura Dern, Enlightened

Best Supporting Actor in a Movie: Christopher Plummer, Beginners

See the winners as they speak to the press backstage the 2012 Golden Globes.

The 2012 Golden Globe Awards kick off at 5pm tonight, and not only will British comedian Ricky Gervais host the ceremony once again, but stars like Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jessica Biel, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman and Reese Witherspoon are set to present, and Madonna, Channing Tatum, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. and Jake Gyllenhaal are also confirmed to attend.

Nominees include Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling, so it's definitely going to be a star-studded show you won't want to miss!

Be sure to check back on X17online.com for red carpet photos and a winners list later this evening!

The Artist picked up six nominations at today's Golden Globe Award nominations announcement. Harvey Weinstein's silent film is a front-runner this awards season.

But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made some decidedly different choices than the Screen Actors Guild yesterday, with that organization's award nominations announcement. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was snubbed Wednesday by SAG, while the film picked up two nods today for -- one for Mara Rooney in the Best Drama Actress category and for Best Score.

The Globes has set up an interesting face-off between Ides of March co-stars George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, both nominated in the Best Actor category, though Clooney for The Descendants. But Clooney's got enough other chances to pick up a prize ... he was also nominated for Best Director for Ides and the film is named in the Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay categories. Clooney's dramedy The Descendants is also vying for Best Motion Picture. And Gosling also has a chance to win an award with his Best Comedy-Musica Actor nom for Crazy Stupid Love.

The Help picked up five nods, as did Clooney's Descendants.

Brad Pitt (Moneyball) and Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar) scored Best Drama Actor nominations.

Other notable noms are those in the Best motion Picture, Comedy-Musical category -- Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Bridesmaids, The Artist, 50/50, and My Week With Marilyn.

For a full list of nominees, click through!

Courtesy: Twitter

Lookin' good Gervais. Is this to fight off all the "chubby" jokes from Sunday's show?

While most of Hollywood is in an uproar over the awesomely funny, yet totally controversial comments made by Ricky Gervais during his now-infamous Golden Globes hosting gig, the original Office star spent the better part of Monday lounging in Ellen DeGeneres' underwear on a hotel balcony in LA. Loves it!

DeGeneres recently shared via her Twitter: "Please enjoy this photo of Ricky Gervais in my underwear", and we can't thank her enough for this shot. Our new favorite funny guy will be stopping by Piers Morgan's new CNN interview show tonight, and we can't wait to hear what he's going to say about the backlash from Sunday.

Morgan Tweets:

"One thing I can guarantee - Mr Gervais won't be offending me, whatever he does during our interview. More outrageous the better."

We will definitely be watching.

Everyone was getting their flirt on last night!

Despite the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal took former girlfriend (and Rilo Kiley singer) Jenny Lewis to the Golden Globes last night as his date, the hunky Love and Other Drugs actor is rumored to have been chatting up Camilla Belle, according to online reports.

Clearly he's over poor Taylor Swift!

Meanwhile, Country Strong stars Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund were "inseparable the entire night," a party guest tells Us.

The young lovers attended HBO's GG after party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel's Circa 55 and spent the evening with their arms wrapped around each other. Two cute!

Meester split from her Gossip Girl co-star Sebastian Stan last year.

Courtesy: HFPA

It seems Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais' cracks about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association accepting bribes to nominate films like The Tourist weren't too far off.

Former GG lead publicist Michael Russell, who had held his position since 1993, filed a $2 million lawsuit Thursday after he and his company were immediately fired for accusing the HFPA of accepting "payola", aka bribes, in connection with the show.

The suit also claims HFPA president Philip Berk, who is named as a defendant, refused to end the alleged "unethical and potentially unlawful deals" many of the 90-some members engage in.

The suit states:

"Berk expressly acknowledged to Russell that these activities were problematic and the HFPA was a corrupt organization, that it’s members are only out to use the organization to generate income for themselves and that many conflicts of interest exist with regard to the above-specified activities of the HFPA and it’s members."

In case you're wondering what these alleged "bribes" entail, here are a list of allegations from the suit:

-HFPA members accept lavish vacations, junket lodging, gifts and awesome freebies provided by studios, in exchange for their support in nominating specific films.

-Members sell their media credentials for cash by offering space on the red carpet.

-Members offer low profile or unknown media outlets an opportunity to cover the Globes, in exchange for cash.

-Members accept payment from studios and producers for "representing" films

-Members accept payment in exchanged for promoting other HFPA members for Globe nominations and awards.

Reps for the HFPA released a statement claiming the "allegations are completely without merit," and reveal, "this is no more than the case of a disgruntled former consulting firm, whose contract was not renewed, attempting to take advantage once again of the Globe’s international stage for their own gain.”

Those Golden Globes don't come for free!