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Digital News Report – This year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards is being held tonight at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles (see list of nominees below). Betty White won the lifetime achievement award.
Not as prestigious as the Academy Awards, the Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards is one of the major events in Hollywood. Presenters include Christina Applegate, Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Morgan Freeman and other actors.
The awards are being broadcast on two networks: TBS and TNT.
Here is the list of nominees:
Film
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
* Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
* George Clooney – Up in the Air
* Colin Firth – A Single Man
* Morgan Freeman – Invictus
* Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
* Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
* Helen Mirren – The Last Station
* Carey Mulligan – An Education
* Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
* Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
* Matt Damon – Invictus
* Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
* Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
* Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
* Penélope Cruz – Nine
* Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
* Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
* Diane Kruger – Inglourious Basterds
* Mo’Nique – Precious
Outstanding Performance by a Cast
* An Education
* The Hurt Locker
* Inglourious Basterds
* Nine
* Precious
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble
Star Trek
* Public Enemies
* Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Television
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Michael C. Hall – Dexter
* Simon Baker – The Mentalist
* Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
* Jon Hamm – Mad Men
* Hugh Laurie – House
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
* Patricia Arquette – Medium
* Glenn Close – Damages
* Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
* Holly Hunter – Saving Grace
* Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
* Steve Carell – The Office
* Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm
* Tony Shalhoub – Monk
* Charlie Sheen – Two and a Half Men
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Tina Fey – 30 Rock
* Christina Applegate – Samantha Who?
* Toni Collette – United States of Tara
* Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus – The New Adventures of Old Christine
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
* Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance
* Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
* Jeremy Irons – Georgia O’Keeffe
* Kevin Kline – Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac
* Tom Wilkinson – A Number
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries
* Joan Allen – Georgia O’Keeffe
* Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens
* Ruby Dee – America
* Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens
* Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Mad Men
* The Closer
* Dexter
* The Good Wife
* True Blood
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Glee
* 30 Rock
* Curb Your Enthusiasm
* Modern Family
* The Office
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
24
* The Closer
* Dexter
* Heroes
* The Unit
Screen Actors Guild 45th Annual Life Achievement Award
* Betty White
Films with multiple nominations
Three
* Inglourious Basterds
* Precious
* Up In The Air
Two
* An Education
* The Hurt Locker
* Invictus
* The Last Station
* Nine
Television programs with multiple nominations
Three
* 30 Rock
* The Closer
* Dexter
Two
* Curb Your Enthusiasm
* The Good Wife
* Grey Gardens
* Mad Men
* The Office