BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Heath Ledger got his Golden Globe, and Kate Winslet came away with two. Yet the Globes otherwise went slumming, with “Slumdog Millionaire” taking top honors and other key prizes going to a newcomer, an underdog and a poster boy for the classic Hollywood comeback.

With four awards Sunday including best drama, “Slumdog Millionaire” emerged as the potential film to beat at the Academy Awards, an unexpected position for a movie with a cast of unknowns and a story set among orphans and criminals on the streets of Mumbai.

“Is this really happening to me? My first film wins four Golden Globes? I just can’t believe it,” “Slumdog Millionaire” co-star Freida Pinto said backstage.

 She stood among her collaborators, including Danny Boyle, who won the best-director prize.

A critical darling and solid box-office success, “Slumdog Millionaire” knocked off best-drama nominees that included Brad Pitt’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Revolutionary Road” and Ron Howard’s “Frost/Nixon.”

“They have this expression — which I hope I pronounce correctly — in Hindi, which is when you do something, you should do it from the heart,” director Boyle said backstage. “The film was made from the heart, and we never expected to be here, and it’s incredible that we are.”