The Screen Actors Guild awards were handed out Sunday night. While winning a SAG awards does not necessarily mean anything on its own, it does mean something when a movie or actor has also won a Golden Globe and/or another guild award or (as in the case of Slumdog Millionaire) racked up a truckload of various movie awards. The SAG Awards confirmed that Slumdog and Heath Ledger are virtually unstoppable in the Best Picture and Supporting Actor categories, respectively. They also added momentum to Kate Winslet’s bid for her first Oscar (as Best Actress). While Sean Pen won Best Actor at the SAGS, we think Mickey Rourke is still the favorite for the Oscar. The Supporting Actress category is unclear; most pundits are calling Penelope Cruz. Below are the our assessment of where the big races stand, post-SAGs.
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Frost/Nixon
- Milk
- The Reader
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
- Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
- Sean Penn (Milk)
- Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
- Josh Brolin (Milk)
- Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
- Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
- Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)
- Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
- Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
- Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
- Meryl Streep (Doubt)
- Kate Winslet (The Reader)
- Amy Adams (Doubt)
- Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
- Viola Davis (Doubt)
- Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
- David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
- Gus Van Sant (Milk)
- Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
- Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
January 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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