15th Screen Actors Guild Awards
15th SAG Awards
January 25, 2009
Best Cast - Motion Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cast - Drama Series:
Mad Men
Best Cast - Comedy Series:
30 Rock
The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2008, were presented on January 25, 2009. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the thirteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.
The nominees were announced on December 18, 2008 by Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater.[1]
Doubt received the highest number of nominations among the film categories with five, four for individual performances and one for ensemble performance.[2] In the television categories, Boston Legal, 30 Rock, John Adams, Mad Men and The Closer had the most nominations with three each.[1][3]
The biggest winner of the evening was 30 Rock, which won in all three categories in which it was nominated. The Dark Knight won the most film awards, winning in both categories in which it was nominated.
[edit] Nominees and winners
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[edit] Film
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale
- Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
- Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk
- Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
- Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym
- Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins
- Melissa Leo – Frozen River as Ray Eddy
- Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
- Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White
- Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Flynn
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous)
- Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Amy Adams – Doubt as Sister James
- Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena
- Viola Davis – Doubt as Mrs. Miller
- Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie
- Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Cast
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble
- The Dark Knight[4]
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Iron Man
- Wanted
[edit] Television
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
- Ralph Fiennes – Bernard and Doris as Bernard Lafferty
- Paul Giamatti – John Adams as John Adams
- Kevin Spacey – Recount as Ron Klain
- Kiefer Sutherland – 24: Redemption as Jack Bauer
- Tom Wilkinson – John Adams as Benjamin Franklin
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries
- Laura Dern – Recount as Katherine Harris
- Laura Linney – John Adams as Abigail Adams
- Shirley MacLaine – Coco Chanel as Coco Chanel
- Phylicia Rashad – A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger
- Susan Sarandon – Bernard and Doris as Doris Duke
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Michael C. Hall – Dexter as Dexter Morgan
- Jon Hamm – Mad Men as Don Draper
- Hugh Laurie – House as Gregory House
- William Shatner – Boston Legal as Denny Crane
- James Spader – Boston Legal as Alan Shore
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
- Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters as Nora Walker
- Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Olivia Benson
- Holly Hunter – Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko
- Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men as Peggy Olson
- Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer as Det. Brenda Leigh Johnson
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock as Jack Donaghy
- Steve Carell – The Office as Michael Scott
- David Duchovny – Californication as Hank Moody
- Jeremy Piven – Entourage as Ari Gold
- Tony Shalhoub – Monk as Adrian Monk
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
- Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? as Samantha Newly
- America Ferrera – Ugly Betty as Betty Suarez
- Tina Fey – 30 Rock as Liz Lemon
- Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds as Nancy Botwin
- Tracey Ullman – Tracey Ullman's State of the Union as various characters
[edit] Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
[edit] Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
[edit] Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
[edit] In Memoriam
Introduced by Forest Whitaker, the guild remember his members who died last year: Edie Adams, Christopher Allport, Majel Barrett, Paul Benedict, Sam Bottoms, George Carlin, Kim Chan, Cyd Charisse, Ruth Cohen, Augusta Dabney, Ivan Dixon, Robert DoQui, Mel Ferrer, Nina Foch, George Furth, Don Galloway, Beverly Garland, Estelle Getty, David Groh, Bernie Hamilton, Isaac Hayes, Charlton Heston, Pat Hingle, Van Johnson, Stanley Kamel, Evelyn Keyes, Eartha Kitt, Harvey Korman, Don LaFontaine, John Phillip Law, Bernie Mac, Dick Martin, Patrick McGoohan, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Newman, Sydney Pollack, Robert Prosky, Don S. Davis, Roy Scheider, Paul Scofield and Richard Widmark.
[edit] Films with multiple nominations
- Five
- Doubt (won one)
- Three
- Milk (won one)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Two
- The Dark Knight (won two)
- Frost/Nixon
- Slumdog Millionaire (won one)
The Reader also won one award.
[edit] Television programs with multiple nominations
- Three
- Boston Legal
- The Closer
- John Adams (won two)
- Mad Men (won one)
- 30 Rock (won three)
- Two
- Bernard and Doris
- Dexter
- Entourage
- House (won one)
- The Office
- Recount
- Weeds
[edit] References
- ^ a b "15th SAG Awards Nominations Press Release". Screen Actors Guild. 2008-12-18. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110723170532/http://www.sagawards.org/PR_081218. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
- ^ O'Neil, Tom (2008-12-18). "SAG Awards nominations embrace Brangelina, snub Leo". Los Angeles Times. http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/12/sag-nominations.html. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
- ^ "'Doubt' Tops SAG Pack". CBS News. 2008-12-18. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/18/entertainment/awards/main4675230.shtml.
- ^ a b http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j3yZbIqVv5nKFc6ZUSMoQVBuGYLgD95UGHL04
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