Camino, which is about the Opus Dei religious order, won six awards including best film and best director – for Javier Fesser.

“I’m not here because I’m the best, I’m here because I’m very lucky,” Fesser said.

CHE’s Benicio del Toro won best actor and Penelope Cruz won best supporting actress for Vicky Christina
Barcelona.

The lifetime achievement Goya was awarded to Jesus Franco.

The film, Hunger, won the best film award.

Despite recent award ceremony successes, Slumdog Millionaire and Kate Winslet were not among the winners at the London ceremony.

The best director award was won by Stephen Daldry (The Reader), Tilda Swinton was named best actress for her role in Julia and the best actor award was shared between Michael Sheen for Frost/Nixon and Pat Shortt for Garage.

Director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson issued a statement in response to a Daily Telegraph article which claimed two eight-year-olds from Mumbai were underpaid for their work.

The children’s parents say Rubiana Ali (who plays young Latika) was paid £500 for a year’s work and Azharuddin Ismail (who plays young Salim) was paid £1,700.

However, Boyle and Colson say the children were enrolled in school for the first time while the movie was made and that a fund was established to cover the pair’s education, living costs, health and any emergencies. The statement added the children would also receive a “substantial” lump sum if they stay in school until they are 18.

“Since putting these arrangements in place more than 12 months ago, we have never sought to publicise them, and we are doing so now only in response to the questions raised by the press,” Colson and Boyle said in the statement.

Boyle was unexpectedly triumphant in the Feature Film category, beating The Curious Case of Benjamin Button‘s David Fincher, Milk‘s Gus Van Sant, The Dark Knight‘s Christopher Nolan, and Frost/Nixon‘s Ron Howard.

The movie won in every ‘feature’ category, fighting off competition from heavy-favourite WALL-E.

Kung Fu Panda took the award for Animated feature and Character Animation, Character Design, Directing, Production, Music, Production, Production Design, Storyboarding, Voice Acting,
and Writing in an Animated Feature Production.

It also won the awards for Animated Video game and Animated Effects.

Winslet won the award for her performance as a former concentration camp guard in The Reader.

“It is really an honour to be included in such a remarkable year and be acknowledged by my peers in this way,” Winslet says.

The film beat Milk, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon to win the prestigious award.

The Awards are seen as an indicator of who will win at the Oscars, as its members makes up a large part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who vote on the Oscars.

Slumdog Millionaire is up for 10 awards at next month’s Oscars ceremony, including best film.

Winslet, who recently scooped two Golden Globes, is nominated for her performances in ‘The Reader’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’.

The 33-year-old actress is a previous BAFTA winner for Sense and Sensibility.

The event, hosted by Jonathan Ross, will be held at London’s Royal Opera House on 8th February.

Hathway’s name had an asterisk next to it in a list of nominees, indicating she was the winner, despite the awards ceremony not taking place until Sunday.

A statement on the Golden Globes website says: “In the process of preparing for Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, a technician working on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) website made a mistake and a name of a nominee was randomly marked as a winner.”

Adding: “The mistake was immediately corrected.”

The statement insists it does not mean Hathway had won the best actress award for her role in Rachel Getting Married.

Angelina Jolie (for Changeling), Meryl Streep (Doubt), Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long) and Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) are also up for the best actress award.

Actors shortlisted for the award are: Rebecca Hall, Noel Clarke, Toby Kebbell, Michael Fassbender and Michael Cera.

The Rising Star award, which was won last year by Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf, is voted for by the public by text and online.