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SAG Awards Tonight

By Jeralyn

The Screen Actors Guilds Awards are about to start. The red carpet action is at E. What makes these awards different? It's all about the performers, and it's movies and TV.

Between the Golden Globes and the Inauguration, I'm pretty "gowned out" so I won't be detailing the dresses. Here are the nominees in the biggest movie categories:

• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
  RICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale - "THE VISITOR"
  FRANK LANGELLA / Richard Nixon - "FROST/NIXON"
  SEAN PENN / Harvey Milk - "MILK"
  BRAD PITT / Benjamin Button - "THE CURIOUS )
  MICKEY ROURKE / Randy - "THE WRESTLER"

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• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
  ANNE HATHAWAY / Kym - "RACHEL GETTING MARRIED"
  ANGELINA JOLIE / Christine Collins - "CHANGELING"
  MELISSA LEO / Ray Eddy - "FROZEN RIVER"
  MERYL STREEP / Sister Aloysius Beauvier - "DOUBT"
  KATE WINSLET / April Wheeler - "REVOLUTIONARY ROAD"

• Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
  JOSH BROLIN / Dan White - "MILK"
  ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. / Kirk Lazarus - "TROPIC THUNDER"
  PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Father Brendan Flynn - "DOUBT"
  HEATH LEDGER / Joker - "THE DARK KNIGHT"
  DEV PATEL / Older Jamal - "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE"

• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
  AMY ADAMS / Sister James - "DOUBT"
  PENÉLOPE CRUZ / Maria Elena - "VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA"
  VIOLA DAVIS / Mrs. Miller - "DOUBT"
  TARAJI P. HENSON / Queenie - "THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON"
  KATE WINSLET / Hanna Schmitz - "THE READER" he Weinstein Company)

The tv categories are below the film ones.

While I don't see how Mickey Rourke, Brad Pitt or Sean Penn lose this one, Richard Jenkins for the Visitor is an interesting choice. The movie, about an unfair immigration detention, was very good. (Jenkins also played the dead dad in Six Feet Under.) You can get The Visitor on Netflix.

Anyway, if you are watching or interested in movies and tv, here's a thread for you.

Update: Tina Fey wins the first award for best actress in a comedy series (30 Rock). Is there any comedic award she won't win this year?

Same for Alec Baldwin who just won the best actor for 30 Rock. I think he's with his daughter...she looks older than I thought she was but she really resembles Kim Basinger, with dark hair.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).