The Golden Globe Awards are out!

And sweeping the awards given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the run-up to the Oscars are The Social Network and Glee.

In the picture: The female cast members of Glee pose after the series won the award for best television comedy series at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills.

The TV series also won top prizes in the Best Supporting Actor and Actress (Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer) category.

Beating competition from the likes of The King's Speech, Inception, Black Swan and The Fighter is the Facebook film The Social Network.

It took home four Golden Globe Awards including best drama, best director award for David Fincher, best screenplay for writer Aaron Sorkin and best musical score, written by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 non-fiction book The Accidental Billionaires, the film adaptation starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello and Rooney Mara, is about the founding of social networking website Facebook and its resulting lawsuits.

British actor Colin Firth and actress Natalie Portman took home a Golden Globe award each in the Best Actor and Best Actress (drama) category.

Firth won for his role of a stammering King George VI in The King's Speech while Portman beat fellow nominees Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence and Michelle Williams to take home the award for her role in Black Swan.

Another big winner was the comedy movie The Kids Are All Right.

The movie about two lesbian parents whose children search for their sperm donor father fetched its star Annette Bening, who plays one of the mothers in the film, an award for best actress in a film comedy.

In the same category (male), Paul Giamatti took home the award for his role as a caustic man the comedy film Barney's Version.

Meanwhile, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo both picked an award each for the boxing drama The Fighter.

Bale won the supporting actor award for portraying a drug-addicted fighter while Melissa won her supporting actress award for playing the mother of Bale's character.

Cecil B DeMille award recipient actor Robert DeNiro poses with his award next to presenter, actor Matt Damon.

The veteran actor who previously won the Golden Globe for best actor for Raging Bull, was awarded for 'outstanding contribution to the entertainment field'.

Other winners include Al Pacino who won an award for best actor in a TV movie or mini-series for You Don't Know Jack.

Claire Danes won best actress in a TV movie or mini-series with Temple Grandin.

Jim Parsons kisses his award for best performance by an actor in a television series -- comedy or musical for The Big Bang Theory while Chris Colfer goes all misty eyed as he holds his award for best supporting actor for a TV series, movie or miniseries for Glee.

Actress Katey Sagal's performance as the ruthless matriarch of an outlaw motorcycle gang in FX's Sons of Anarchy beat Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) to take home the Golden Globe award for best lead actress in a television drama.

Director Lee Unkrich holds his award for best animated feature for Toy Story 3.

The movie was named best animated movie for what Unkrich called 'an animated movie that beat with a human heart.'