Coming in From the Cold.

MOTION picture industry; FILMMAKERS; MORRIS, Errol, 1948-; FOG of War: 11 Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The (Film); SUPER Size Me (Film); AWARDS

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This article reports on the 2004 Golden Globe awards. The war for the hearts and minds of voters is underway. Not the contest for White House supremacy, but for the gold naked guy with the sword between his legs. The madness began last week at the Golden Globes, the dress rehearsal for the Oscars. Quebec director Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions is a leading contender for best foreign-language film, but he's also honoured for original screenplay. Earlier last week, two Canadian movies took home audience awards from the Sundance Film Festival: Seducing Dr. Lewis, a whimsical Quebec comedy, and The Corporation, a provocative documentary from Vancouver. The Corporation was one of the most talked-about films at Sundance -- along with Super Size Me, a fast-food horror story about an intrepid American filmmaker who spends a month on an all-McDonald's diet. The most celebrated contender among this year's Oscar-nominated documentary features, it's the latest masterpiece from American director Errol Morris, a pioneer of creative non-fiction whose filmmaking washes over the senses as a mysterious, almost metaphysical inquiry into the human condition. With The Fog of War he constructs a mesmerizing portrait of Robert S. McNamara. On a lighter note, Canadians who want to revisit a less apocalyptic chapter of the Cold War -- and get angry -- should check out Miracle.