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It wasn't The Hurt Locker. Hmm. The Screen Actors Guild presented its Actor statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2009 at the “16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards” today at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center and simulcast by TNT and TBS. Ballots to choose the recipients were sent to the nearly 100,000 active members of Screen Actors Guild nationwide.
Sandra Bullock presented Betty White with Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, the 46th Annual Life Achievement Award, following a filmed tribute.
Tonight's winners for the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are:
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)
DANIEL BRÜHL / Fredrick Zoller
AUGUST DIEHL / Major Hellstrom
JULIE DREYFUS / Francesca Mondino
MICHAEL FASSBENDER / Lt. Archie Hicox
SYLVESTER GROTH / Joseph Goebbels
JACKY IDO / Marcel
DIANE KRUGER / Bridget Von Hammersmark
MÉLANIE LAURENT / Shosanna
DENIS MENOCHET / Perrier LaPedite
MIKE MYERS / General Ed French
BRAD PITT / Lt. Aldo Raine
ELI ROTH / Sgt. Donny Donowitz
TIL SCHWEIGER / Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz
ROD TAYLOR / Winston Churchill
CHRISTOPH WALTZ / Col. Hans Landa
MARTIN WUTTKE / Hitler
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
SANDRA BULLOCK / Leigh Anne Tuohy - THE BLIND SIDE (Warner Bros)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
JEFF BRIDGES / Bad Blake - CRAZY HEART (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
MO'NIQUE / Mary - PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE (Lionsgate)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
CHRISTOPH WALTZ / Col. Hans Landa - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Weinstein/Universal)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for Television
MICHAEL C. HALL / Dexter Morgan - DEXTER (Showtime)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for Television
JULIANNA MARGULIES / Alicia Florrick - THE GOOD WIFE (CBS)
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Television
MAD MEN (AMC)
ALEXA ALEMANNI / Allison
BRYAN BATT / Salvatore Romano
JARED S. GILMORE / Bobby Draper
MICHAEL GLADIS / Paul Linsey
JON HAMM / Don Draper
JARED HARRIS / Lane Pryce
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS / Joan Holloway (Harris)
JANUARY JONES / Betty Draper
VINCENT KARTHEISER / Peter Campbell
ROBERT MORSE / Bertram Cooper
ELISABETH MOSS / Peggy Olson
KIERNAN SHIPKA / Sally Draper
JOHN SLATTERY / Roger Sterling
RICH SOMMER / Harry Crane
CHRISTOPHER STANLEY / Henry Francis
AARON STATON / Ken Cosgrove
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Television
TINA FEY / Liz Lemon - 30 ROCK (NBC)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for Television
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy - 30 ROCK (NBC)
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Television
GLEE (FOX)
DIANA AGRON / Quinn Fabray
CHRIS COLFER / Kurt Hummel
PATRICK GALLAGHER / Ken Tanaka
JESSALYN GILSIG / Terri Schuester
JANE LYNCH / Sue Sylvester
JAYMA MAYS / Emma Pillsbury
KEVIN McHALE / Arty Abrams
LEA MICHELE / Rachel Berry
CORY MONTEITH / Finn Hudson
HEATHER MORRIS / Brittany
MATTHEW MORRISON / Will Schuester
AMBER RILEY / Mercedes
NAYA RIVERA / Santana Lopez
MARK SALLING / Puck
HARRY SHUM JR. / Mike Chang
JOSH SUSSMAN / Jacob Ben Israel
DIJON TALTON / Matt Rutherford
IQBAL THEBA / Principal Figgins
JENNA USHKOWITZ / Tina
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KEVIN BACON / Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl - TAKING CHANCE (HBO)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
DREW BARRYMORE / Little Edie - GREY GARDENS (HBO)
SAG HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
STAR TREK (Paramount Pictures)
Robert Alonzo
Daniel Arrias
Sala Baker
Steve Blalock
Joey Box
Ben Bray
Mark Chadwick
Ilram Choi
Zack Duhame
Pete Epstein
Jeremy Fitzgerald
Terry Jackson
Craig Jensen
Paul Lacovara
Rob Mars
Mike Massa
Heidi Moneymaker
Mike Mukatis
Courtney Munch
Kimberly Murphy
Chris Palermo
Jim Palmer
Eddie Perez
Dan Plum
Damion Poitier
Susan Purkhiser
Mike Schneider
Dennis Scott
Chris Torres
Webster Winnery, Jr.
Marcus YoungOutstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
24 (FOX)
Jeff Cadiente
Brian Hite
Norman Howell
Chris Leps
Dustin Meier
John Meier
Gary Price
Jimmy Sharp, Jr.
Erik Stabenau
Justin Sundquist
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Diane Kruger`s nomination pointed out that SAG really loved the movie and that Ensemble win was likely. Well-deserved win. Absolutely fantastic, really.
Congratulations to Michael C. Hall, Christoph Waltz and the entire ensemble of Inglourious Basterds for their wins. They all deserved their Actors.
Hmm…Sandra might actually have a shot at the Oscar win now…
I’m actually rooting for Sandra. Part of the trouble with her career is that she is the go-to actress when it comes to romantic comedy as Meryl is with serious drama.
I love Meryl, but I’m getting Streep Fatigue; she’s in everything. I’m surprised she wasn’t in Avatar and in the Hangover. Take a sabbatical, Meryl, and let some of the other notables act in this town for once.
Loving it!
PS – why would it be an upset for Inglorious Basterds? It IS an outstanding cast!
I don’t see how it was an upset. Most people predicted IB to win Best Ensemble.
What a complete and utterly useless ceremony. Don’t these people get tired of patting themselves on the back and telling each other how wonderful they are?
Useless ceremony? What is it for OTHER than to recognise the achievements of the nominees? SAG is quite clear what their show is about and who it’s for…the artists themselves.
I applaud SAG for offering NO silly dance routines (which ARE useless, annoying and EMBARRASSING wastes of time), NO self-important “host” struggling to be clever and relevant, NO inappropriate music telling winners to cut short their acceptances. Cut them short for WHAT? So there’s enough time for yet another dance routine?
The SAG awards were properly dignified, they showcased the ACTORS who were being honored, and allowed for appropriate expressions of emotion and gratitude. This night IS about them.
The bloated Academy Awards show could take a page from SAG’s book. In fact, they should borrow the entire book.
You are so right!
30 Rock/Mad Men, 30 Rock/Mad Men, 30 Rock/Mad Men. Why are these two always getting all of the awards? BORING. You know, there are other quality shows out there – The Good Wife, Big Bang, Burn Notice, Two and Half Men, The Middle, Modern Family, The Mentalist, CSI, Desperate Housewives, etc.
I am sick of Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey and John Hamm. Please, Hollywood robots, pick somebody else!
Two and a Half Men? Really? Two and a Half Men? Anything of merit you might have said was discredited immediately with that suggestion.
I have to agree, with both posts. Getting a little tired of employees of an industry giving the highest awards to other industry employees for PRETENDING to be industry employees. That’s like someone giving me an award for being me. 30 Rock sucks, and will never be the ratings juggernaut all these awards try to make it out to be.
In that same vein, I agree with Ex-Disney… Two and Half? Really? Was that show EVER funny?
I would’ve given outstanding cast to The Hurt Locker. No question. Renner, Mackie and Geraghty were seamless. Out of the films nominated in that category, it is the only one I knew I would see again the moment it ended.
Christoph Waltz will win the Oscar. Given his ability and gratitude, who wouldn’t want to work with him.
What acting? This movie was better serve running on the History Channel. Watch PATTON sometime.
I’ve seen Patton. Loved it years ago. GREAT acting. Scott was amazing. IMHO The Hurt Locker is one of the best of the war genre.
Ari, I have to ask you. Which did you prefer…The Thin Red Line or Saving Private Ryan?
I didn’t like either. THE THIN RED LINE was muddled, inaccurate, unfocused, and contained embarrassing cameos. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was a hackneyed and unrealistic (dramatically) look at classic WWII Hollywood movies. The opening had a riveting, graphic realism but when the ‘drama’ kicked in the movie fell apart. Check out the rarely seen Russian film COME AND SEE for an authentic, original look at war films. My problem with THE HURT LOCKER was that the actors didn’t create a resonance. The history of film contains many reference points to sociopaths, DeNiro in TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL, Dustin Hoffman in LENNY, others. These characters were defined by Dostoevsky in the nineteenth century. You feel for them but I felt nothing for anyone in this movie. Also, what was that stuff with the kid, a dubious plot point at best, but confusing. Remember WAR HUNT? The stunt casting at the beginning was distracting. A kind of rip off of Hitchcock’s use of Janet Leigh in Psycho. Also, you could see the thing with the colonel coming a mile away. My reference to Patton was Scott’s vivid performance of an extremely complex character, never likable. For what it’s worth, the film has been roundly criticized by responsible military men as being wildly inaccurate. They never seemed attached to anything. The events were isolated and arbitrary. This might have been a consequence of the budget. Any realism was tacked on with the visual techniques and the offhanded manner of filmmaking. The rhythm of the film was similar to PUBLIC ENEMIES: They rob a bank, they get caught, they escape, they rob a bank, they get caught… halfway through THE HURT LOCKER you start looking at your watch because you know he’s not going to get killed anytime soon, so where’s the tension? The visit home didn’t tell you much either and was remarkably similar to the same stuff in THE THIN RED LINE. As a reference point to great war films start with BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, LA GRANDE ILLUSION, and the aforementioned COME AND SEE. These are films of honesty, insight, and thought. Qualities that THE HURT LOCKER and the other two don’t have.
Lenny Bruce a sociopath? Hardly.
Are you serious? The Hurt Locker was an outstanding film.
That’s because we were sent screeners of “Inglorious Basterds” and not “Avatar”.
Although it’s not like “Avatar” needed the extra boost of $$$ that comes with an awards win.
i have said it once i will say it again: avatar is a FAD. a well done special effects laden FAD but nothing more.
I would be very shocked to see it get an award for best picture or even director in the usa.
Golden Globes yes, because that is an international voting block and they loved the anti-usa vibe throughout avatar.
but the usa style awards voters will be much more objective. does avatar have more to than just special effects? is it REAL SERIOUS DRAMA? in my opinion NO IT DOES NOT & NO IT ISNT. It may get best special effects & costumes or camera work(?) but THATS IT.
just sayin. this says something that SAG dumped on it big time.
personally i also think the sales figures are bloated as well but who am i? an accountant? in actual dollar to dollar amounts it is far from the biggest money maker. be careful what yu wish for folks.
ok avatar-promoting fans flame on in 3 2 1….
“ok avatar-promoting fans flame on in 3 2 1….”
is this your attempt to dissuade anyone from refuting your opinion?
I’m not going to “flame” you, and it’s fine if you have legitimate points about why Avatar should not win any acting awards (I actually agree with you in regards to that), but the whole anti-USA thing is kind of old & offensive. What version of the US are you referring to? James Cameron has clearly stated that it was more of a commentary on imperialism throughout history, and the movie’s content supports that. The hero is an American marine, the US and its flag are never shown or mentioned, and from the get go it is stated that the people fighting on Pandora work for a *private* company- that’s no accident that it was put in at the very beginning of the movie. It is the paranoid right, who see boogie men and conspiracies constantly when it comes to hollywood in general, that are so fixated on it being anti-american. The average viewer just enjoyed the ride.
>The average viewer just enjoyed the ride
Or just stayed home because they’re sick of effects-driven blockbusters, period. There is nothing about this movie that makes me or anyone I know want to see it, and I’m so far from a right-wingnut you probably wouldn’t believe it. What’s keeping me away is Cameron’s shitty dialogue (I laughed out loud through much of Titanic) and inability to tell a story without the CGI crutch. Your mileage may vary.
No love for BJ Novak in Basterds? And in Mad Men it’s Paul Kinsey, not Linsey.
But how does Glee win best cast when the top two cast honors went to 30 Rock?
Still gonna be Avatar vs. Hurt Locker for best picture at the Oscars. This was IB’s moment in the sun. Which is now over with.
The TV wins were awful. So sick of 30 Rock. And I dont understand how Marguiles can win for half a season when Sedgwick and Close have been brilliant year after year.
And what a mockey to think Bullock could win anthing but a Razzie. I love how All About Steve gets forgiven. The power of the box office. Hope she thanks all those white Christian southern conservatives Hollywood loves to hate. She’d be no where in this race without them flocking to that garbage.
Sandra Bullock winning the Oscar would be no more a sacrilege than Julia Roberts winning won. Actually, Sandra is the better actor. That said, no I don’t think she should win. But she deserves to be nominated.
I want to know who makes up the seemingly phantom demographic that nominate Tony Shaloub for Monk year after year after year. I like Shaloub as an actor a great deal, but I don’t know a single person who actually watches Monk. It’s the same phantom demographic we read about but never meet in person that tunes into Two and a Half Men. It’s long been an industry mystery…!
This made me laugh out loud.
SAG awards are not about demographics and viewerships. They’re about PERFORMANCES. No mystery there!
Well, then Sandra Bullock had no business winning, much less being nominated in the first place. It’s an embarrassment and an abomination that she has gotten two awards for Best actress. She’s nothing of the sort. And from SAG no less. Ridiculous. It’s a grave insult to the performers who were rightly so nominated and deserve to be awarded the mantle of best actress over Bullock who hasn’t proven herself worthy of anything other than a people’s choice award.
It’s over now – the series finale was in December – but I watched the entire series and loved it.
I would love it if, given your signature, you were actually making a joke about how only pets watch Monk.
@Paul you’re so right. It’s shocking that they didn’t create a special award for actors who hiss at each other in a fake language and blue makeup. What a crime.
With regards to “Reality’s” comment, it’s true. If the studios and network don’t see to it that members of SAG get to see some of this programming and some of these movies, they simply don’t get a vote. Because it’s truly sad enough to know that most members of the Screen Actors Guild can’t be bothered to open their mail and vote an educated, informed opinion for their own leadership. But do not ask broke-ass actors for their vote when no one sees to it that they can even be admitted into a screening of a film that’s filled the minute the notice is emailed out. And worse when shows or made for tv movies want a vote when a about 50% of SAG cannot even afford cable television. If execs and stars alike really want these statuettes, they’d see to it that actors got the screeners in the mail, on time, and for every single programme that’s been nominated. It simply isn’t fair to ask the members to vote on movies they weren’t allowed to see or tv programming they couldn’t afford to watch. This is why the vote comes from actors’ peers. And many of those peers are on Unemployment and losing their homes and apartments.
Besides, for the movies that had been sent to the members, only one was sent in ample time to view it: PRECIOUS. Imagine that? And independent on a shoe string budget with a completely new and unknown lead actress is the only one sent out to members in a TIMELY fashion. Last year members were receiving paper movie “passes” to screenings well after the awards show was over. DAYS after the award show was over. Tell the studios these well-deserved awards aren’t just a precursor to Oscar winners, they are merited to those actors who were lucky enough to work for a studio who weren’t too goddamn cheap to send members a screener. That’s a huge part as to why “Inglorious Basterds” won.
I’m opposed to any trophy given to that unfunny giant douche and torture porn director/hack Eli Roth. His “acting” in Inglorous Basterds is below cable-access level amateurishness. Stick to what you know best, Eli, and keep hanging out with the subhumans on TMZ.
This 30 Rock love is starting to border on criminal. Okay, you don’t like shows like Two & A Half Men, but can Curb Your Enthusiasm win this award.
Why do they keep winning? The show is not funny. Tina Fey was okay, but she’s very one note. Don’t give me this BS about Larry David not acting, but then say Tina Fey is.
I am honestly glad that a few minutes into watching I just said forget it. Heck JB Smoove was the funniest supporting actor for the past two years and he hasn’t been nominated for anything.
Curb is great, but not because of the acting. In fact, the lack of polish on the acting is part of what gives it the unique feel it has. It should get writers awards and directors awards and best comedy awards by the fistful. But acting awards, I think not.
Hey Ben,
The actors on Curb Your Enthusiasm improvise all of their dialogue so if anyone deserves an acting award it’s them. And since there is no script why would it get an award for writers? Can you explain yourself, please?
I thought improvisation was improvisation, not acting. Curb is funny in a gross British “The Office” sort of way. Not really something I can watch show after show of. Then again, I didn’t think Seinfeld was great either.
The Harvard, Second City, mob has comedy at NBC on lockdown.
And these moronic awards shows as well.
I agree with an earlier post. Who the hell watches 30 Rock? Or the Tonight show for that matter?
Celebrating the people who are arranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic!
30 Rock was terrific in its first season. After that it started winning everything and, at the same time, became pretty boring. Kind of a shame. Tina Fey, as talented as she is, tends to start phoning it in once she achieves success. I remember it happened on Weekend Update too. After her first few pairings with Amy Poehler, every single joke suddenly became obvious and unfunny.
I totally agree about Curb – JB Smoove is hilarious. I loved the line when his sister packed up and left Larry, Larry says so what are you going to do now? JB says “I’m going to go up to my fucking room and eat my fucking food.” I was on the floor. Still cracks me up.
Alec Baldwin has always been a very fine film actor. Tina Fey has always been a very fine live improv actor. I have never voted for either as a best actor on a comedy show.
PS
Where were the nominations for Big Love?
This is all great, but what if the SAG awards were different than all the other award shows?
What if there were categories like:
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A ROLE HE WASN’T QUITE RIGHT FOR,
BUT HE TOOK THE JOB BECAUSE HE REALLY NEEDED THE MONEY.
or:
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS DOING A FOREIGN ACCENT WHEN THE PREP TIME
WAS LESS THAN A WEEK.
It would make things interesting.
That would make it more interesting for those watching, and I would guess a bit more entertaining for the insiders as well.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST CARRYING THE star THAT WAS PHONING IT IN.
TOLDJA!
It’s not really an upset — it’s just all of you not believing that Inglorious Basterds can win. I don’t see how the Academy can vote for Avatar — it is such a simplistic story and doesn’t deliver any of the excitment, great acting, great storyline that Basterds does. This is Tarantino’s best work EVER and that is really saying a lot and it is a crime that he has not won best director or best picture. Cameron doesn’t need another one, certainly not for a mediocre film with super special effects (actually thought Star Trek’s effects were far superiour but that’s me). The Hurt Locker and up in the air are also better than Avatar. I agreed with Titanic winning, but not Avatar. It’s great success, which I am very happy for, should be it’s own reward. It is nowhere near deserving of winning the title of BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. That would be INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and I’m thrilled that SAG decided to reward it. If you think screeners won it, if people didn’t like the movie, they wouldn’t have voted for it — and Basterds by the way is a box office hit with over 100 million.
What a creep Alec Baldwin is. He actually had the nerve to thank SAG when he was one of many who, with a smile on his face, sold us down the river. Does anyone remember his Hulu ads? He was a spokesperson for a company who streamed our work without compensation and he, with his fat smug face, got handsomely compensated for selling US OUT! He’s about the most hypocritical piece of shit! And talk about over rated! But most importantly, he and Tom Hanks et al had no qualms fucking over the little guys and gals of the union he claims to love so much. It’s just too pathetic.
I couldn’t agree with you more! Alec Baldwin’s speech had me screaming at the TV screen. What was coming out of his mouth was complete and utter B.S.!!! His love for the struggling union actors who depend on residuals Blah Blah Blah…. and then he had the nerve to mention that we have negotiations coming up. Who is he going to support this time? Give me a break Alec Baldwin. Your speech couldn’t have been farther from the truth. You need to take a long look at yourself.
Glad to see I wasn’t alone in this. I was literally like, “Shut the F**k up you traitor!”
I guess he loves SAG unless its time to fight for SAG.
Amen to the Alec Baldwin is a traitor to his union comments…his mere appearance in front of every TCM The Essentials films makes me leap for the remote to get rid of him. Cannot believe he was renewed to host that show with the truly knowledgable and classy Robert Osborne. The only thing I’ll watch him in anywhere is the TCM interview AB did with Gene Wilder…it’s fun to watch Wilder outclass the bum who not only thinks he knows best when it comes to actors but also comedy.
Did you all notice Tina Fey’s mention of her husband getting 15 cents because the orchestra played the 30 Rock theme as she took the stage to get her award. Probably more than any actor will ever see for internet plays of their content (thanks to Baldwin & the fellow idiots who voted up the latest round of bad SAG contracts).
Just goes to show how stupid SAG members must be then to vote for him. Quite frankly, those of us on the outside could give two shits about the actors union (and I’m pro union).
Just giving you the perspective from the outside that is so clearly missing within Hollywood.
Carey Mulligan gets robbed again.
Loved Inglourious Basterds, and it totally deserved best cast. That being said, Avatar will take the Oscar for Best Picture. Deal.
Mad Men continues to be the best scripted drama on television, and I ain’t no effin’ robot.
Why is this an upset? How can you even compare the acting of Hurt Locker to Inglorious Basterds? I’d take even Up In The Air’s big 3 (Clooney, Farmiga, Kendrick) over Locker’s without even blinking an eye.
The real upset here is Sandra Bullock winning. I’m honestly in shock and disbelief that she’d actually win an acting award. Not to say she didn’t do a great job in The Blind Side, because she did, but it’s more to the fact that the guilds/academy doesn’t normally look at performances in movies of that genre as being significant in any way.
With respect, the guilds and the Academy have recognized other films that may be considered to be in the same genre. Erin Brockovich, for example.
As for Sandra Bullock, fact is she was damn good in The Blind Side. It’s not the first time she’s shown drama chops; she was amazing in Crash.
Nikki, as bright as you are, you’re calling the Basterds Best Ensemble win an upset? I expected it, and this SAG wins gives a very nice boost to Inglourious Basterds’ hopeful Oscar win for Best Picture. I’ll even been happy for Bigelow if she won Best Director, just as long as IB wins Best Picture.
wow- early in the morning and the haters are at it-LOL . So glad “Up in the Air ” was shut out. The damn movie was an annoying snore.
“Inglourious Basterds” so deserved best cast of this lot .Give “Hurt Locker ” a rest. There have been a lot of better war films out there .Yes it has a female director , but that doesn’t mean it was the best of this year.”Saving Private Ryan” Flags of Our Fathers” & ” Letters from Iwo Jima ring a bell. These are superior war films.
As for Sandra , she did deserve to win. also the fact that “Blind side” has made more money than other dramas is pretty amazing. Looks like the Oscar locks are Christoph Waltz and Monique.
And to the Avatar hater-lu-E .Its not a fad.Its a new direction for film making.it needed one and the proof is in the numbers .As far as great dramas-Hollywood stopped making them years ago. what they make now is piss poor compared to films like “Darling- Blow Up * Who’s afraid Of Virginia Woolf– that was drama– the 60’s ruled.
Reiterating lu-e’s point, Avatar really in the end is just a fad. Look at it again. Its just way too goofey to be taken seriously. Compare that to the hardcore suspense and drama of the Hurt Locker? No contest IMHO. But again I think the Oscars are full of shit anyway so it makes no difference to me.
Lots of snobs and elitists on here. The SAGs are voted on by who exactly (or whom, even)? By other actors.
Millions of people watch Two and a Half Men, that’s why it’s highly rated, and why The Blind Side did so well in theaters. You’re supposed to be in the business of entertaining people, yet you shit on anything that reeks of ‘mass appeal’.
Get over yourselves.
Looks like Harvey’s proven he can buy off SAG. Nice.
I enjoy “Monk” the cast is great and would love to see
Ted Levine win an award.
As far as 30 Rock I never understood why it wins so many awards.
I was happy for Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.
It’s interesting how so many actors seem unable to speak
in public when winning an award.
MO’NIQUE should take Drew Barrymore under her wing and teach her how to make a classy, understandable speech.
Monique is annoying in her speeches, because every…word…has…the..weight…of…her…momentous….gratitude…
I voted for her performance, but, geez – talk like a person.
Also, Christoph Waltz – stop trying to make complicated analogies and speeches – speak plainly and from the heart. His golden globes sports analogy was ENDLESS. And he always seems to miss a word or punctuation that makes what he is saying a little hard to understand or rambly.
I prefer Drew being tongue tied. And acting isn’t the same as public speaking.
I also enjoyed that Sandra Bullock was just hot for Jesse during her speech.
You do know that English is not Christoph Waltz’s first language, right? Criticizing him for missing a word. Come on. The guy was amazing in Inglorious Basterds.
Two points I’d like to make. They’ll both sound bitter, but they’re really just observational.
- How many of the nominees and winners AREN’T from the U.S.? A film shot internationally like BASTERDS makes since, but (just by way of example) all three actors introducing TRUE BLOOD were from other countries.
- Not a single winner thanked a single casting director. Granted, most of the movie winners probably haven’t SEEN a casting director in years, but still —- if you can thank stand ins and dialect coaches, maybe a bit of thanks for the people who put your names in front of directors and helped you get those poopy little jobs that put you on that track in the first place?
I’ so glad that AVATAR did not get anything!
Does BJ Novak not count as part of the Basterds ensemble? Why not? Anyone? Is he not SAG?
What do you expect, when they let “hobbyists” like me vote…
“Inglorious Basterds” was a terrific movie with some wonderful acting. It probably won’t win an Oscars, but the Oscars aren’t really about the best of the year. Like all of the movie awards, the Oscars are about the “it” thing, or the person who deserves it, or the point Hollywood wants to make that year. Everybody knows this, yet people still clamor for these award shows like they’re something other than crowning a prom king and queen. It’s a popularity contest. What measure are judges using to compare these movies? Nothing. So it mainly comes down to personal preference, not any kind of set criteria to crown who is the best.
An upset? Come on, the IB guys deserved this win. It’s a shame that most of the European actors weren’t there to receive their award.
@chloe-Sandra was very good in “Crash”. There’s no “abomination” here.. She’s a good actor. she deserves success. and, unlike many people in hollywood, she’s nice.
“Inglorious Basterds” sent SAG members a screener, The “Hurt Locker” did not. Big mistake.
I was coming here to post this exact thing.
HURT LOCKER BETTER HAVE SENT SCREENERS TO ACADEMY MEMBERS!
It does not matter that Hurt Locker released on DVD on January 12th or 14th or something, because if many industry people have Netflix like me (and they do, because they need to be able to cycle through a lot of film and TV fast), there is a VERY LONG WAIT for Hurt Locker. You can’t get it. It might as well not be on DVD right now. They aren’t covered by the fact that it is on DVD, and it has long been out of theaters. Unless you are a member of Blockbuster and can walk in and get it off the shelf – which no one I know does anymore – Hurt Locker is unavailable.
How did the distributors fall down on the job on this when they had such HUGE awards buzz? They should have just made the push to send screeners out to all Guilds no matter the cost.
However, Inglorious Bastards came to my house – easy to see.
I did vote for Hurt Locker, and in fact went and bought it, because since I saw it originally in theaters to this day I haven’t been able to get it off my mind. And the performaces are FANTASTIC as an ensemble. So there.
The concept of “Best Ensemble” or “Best Cast” is ludicrous. If you had 5 groups of actors acting in 5 different versions of the same film, directed by the same director, and using the same shooting script, then maybe this would be a legitimate category. It’s just another way of inventing a reason to inflate the egos of the actors even more.
You have to think of Best Ensemble as SAG’s “Best Movie”, because that is essentially how it shakes out in voter’s minds.
Seems to me that those with the largest casts won Best Ensemble SAG Awards.
“Inglorious” was a dumb-ass movie. But in Hollywood virtually all movies related to the Holocaust do phenomenally well. Tarentino is a player. He knows this. He’s also a film maker who imitates past greats which makes him predicatable and formulaic.
Brad Pitt is proving with each new venture that he really just cannot act to save his soul. He was horrible in this movie, he mangled another dialect and his dead pig eyes betray his fear in front of the camera. He must know full well that his entire career is rooted in public relations genius,business manuvering and shameless tabloid promotion. And most sheeple in America still beleive that this guy is ‘handsome’. By what standard is he handsome? Aging has rapidly overwhelmed his teeny-bop essence and engulfed his visage in craters,pits,Lady Clairol and heavily hooded Ambien eyes.
Sounds like “Hurt Locker” is this years Hollywood Bowel Movement of Guilt for all the terrible things wreaked upon Iraq by our imperial forces. Haven’t even seen it and have no intention of doing so. Entirely predictable though. Wave the red,white and blue in the runup to the invasion and then make sad,pathetic movies about the obvious consequences 10 years after.
Just happy that the nonactor George Clooney did not win anything. Mr Charm spends all his time doing press interviews and fundraisers to shill his image. He has no sense of humor outside his hackneyed attempts at sarcasm and cannot transform or go deep for anything in front of a camera. But his publicist is brilliant and the Sheeple are actually imagining him as the heir apparent to Cary Grant. Excuse me while I retire to hug the porcelain.
Clooney is a bobble-headed nonentity who never trained,never studied, came to Hollywood like hundreds of thousands before and after and then proceeded to win the two hundred million dollar city wide lotto. What a running joke.
Gold Derby and the other experts predicted Basterds to win it all. Not an upset.
Tarantino’s kiss-ass fanboys are always on internet message boards overpraising every collection of recycled, “borrowed” ideas he calls movies. They’re as puerile as he and his movies are.
And before you claim that critics like him let me say that critics like Tarantino because they’re just middle-aged fanboys themselves, he gives them a reason to use their film trivia knowledge(oh yes, he’s paying homage to this movie here and that B movie actor there), and finally because he makes the sort of movie a critic would make if given a chance to make a movie i.e. a movie that is just a series of references to other movies. How many critics said “this is a movie that’s in love with movies?” I read it so many times I wanted to throw up.
IB like everything else this wildly overrated hack does is a cartoon with no connection to reality. Is this what we want cinema to be? Movies that are about other movies. I thought filmmakers were supposed to create new cinematic experiences not anally recreate old ones like IB and that execrable waste of time Grindhouse.
Brian Dennehy once said he thought there should be a
‘BEST ACTOR OVER 250LBS” category.
i like that one.
how about:
“BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN OLD GUY WHO CAN STILL RIDE A HORSE”
(Duvall would always win)
“BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ELDERLY WOMAN WHO’S STILL GOT NICE
GETAWAY STICKS”
(Shirley MacLaine every time)
I like that the best actors, according to insiders, are people we’ve never heard of in films we’ll never watch. Everytime I read interviews of actors they mention how they don’t watch TV or movies, so it’s no wonder they don’t know what people like.
Regardless, Inglorious Basterds was great.