Thursday, December 20, 2007

Awards Watch: Screen Actors Guild

With today's nominations for the Screen Actors Guild, this year's award race just keeps getting more and more interesting. Into the Wild, pretty much ignored by the Golden Globes, snagged a field best four nominations (including Outstanding Performance by a Cast), while Atonement (the Globe frontrunner with seven nods), Charlie Wilson's War and Sweeney Todd are nowhere to be found on the SAG ballot.

In addition to Wild, the ensemble category includes American Gangster, Hairspray, No Country for Old Men and, somewhat of a surprise, 3:10 to Yuma. New this year is two awards honoring Outstanding Performances by a Stunt Ensemble for both film and television; now how about a voiceover actor award, SAG? And speaking of television, there was more love for Brothers and Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty. And as previously announced, veteran character actor Charles Durning will receive the SAG's life achievement award.

Thanks to a waiver by the striking Writers Guild, the awards will be handed out January 27 in a live telecast on TNT and TBS. For a quick look at the movie award nominations, see the comments section below.

Links via SAGAwards.org and HollywoodReporter.com.

1 comment:

Kirby Holt said...

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:

George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role:

Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away from Her
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page in Juno

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role:

Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role:

Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Catherine Keener in Into the Wild
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture:

American Gangster
Hairspray
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
3:10 to Yuma

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture:

The Bourne Ultimatum
I Am Legend
The Kingdom
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
300