Golden Globes 2011 winners outshined by awkward moments featuring Robert Downey Jr., Robert De Niro

BY Soraya Roberts

Monday, January 17th 2011, 4:00 AM

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Golden Globes 2011 winners faced awkward jokes by Robert Downey Jr. (l.) and Robert De Niro (r.) Sunday night at the ceremony.

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Robert Downey Jr. and Robert De Niro competed for most awkward moment at the 2011 Golden Globes Sunday night -- alongside returning host Ricky Gervais. As Downey Jr., who was on the receiving end of one of Gervais' digs, said, the evening's jokes were often "mean-spirited with vaguely sinister undertones."

Find out who besides the British creator of "The Office" caused embarrassment, laughter and some boos to ripple through the Beverly Hilton Hotel at the 68th annual Golden Globes, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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1. Ricky Gervais' opening monologue: After starting out with a recap of Charlie Sheen's fateful Monday with the "porn star," Gervais went right into slamming "The Tourist," despite stars Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp both being nominated for awards and in the audience. "It seems like everything this year was 3-dimensional, except for the characters in 'The Tourist,'" he said, before apologizing and saying he hadn't seen it. "Who has?"

After mentioning that "I Love You, Philip Morris," was not nominated, Gervais described it as starring "two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. So, the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then." This was met with a loud boo from a majority of the audience.

Using "The Walking Dead" as a segue, Gervais then congratulated Hugh Hefner on his engagement, marrying someone 60 years younger. "Just don't look at it when you touch it," he said as he made a vomit face and the audience groaned in disgust.

2. Christian Bale gets cut off: The first award winner of the night claimed that after never knowing who the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were, he realized how "spectacular and perceptive" they were after winning. After thanking his co-stars, he appeared to be finished but was cut off as he gave a shout out to Robert De Niro. He threw up his arms and left in the midst of speaking. According to Michael Ausiello, former Entertainment Weekly columnist, Bale launched "into a big, expletive-laden Robert De Niro lovefest."

Actor Christian Bale accepted the Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Award for "The Fighter" with plenty of De Niro love. (Handout)

3. Gervais introduces Bruce Willis, ex-husband of Demi Moore, as "Ashton Kutcher's dad."

4. Gervais slams HFPA president: Introduces presenter Eva Longoria as having the "daunting task" of introducing the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Philip Berk. After getting booed, he quipped, "That's nothing, I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in."