"The Social Network", a drama about the founding of Facebook, won the Golden Globe for the year's best drama, ensuring it heads into the home stretch of the Hollywood awards season as the hot Oscar favourite.

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It also won the best original score, beating Indian music maestro A.R. Rahman works in "127 Hours".

The movie, which focuses on billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, won three other awards Sunday night, for best screenplay, director and score. On Friday it dominated the Critics Choice Awards after sweeping up handfuls of other prizes early in the awards season.