WHAT AN UPSET! ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins SAG Award For Outstanding Cast

COMMENTS (84)

• 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.

  Comment by Michael Heister — Saturday January 23, 2010 @ 10:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by colin — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 12:04am PST  Reply to this post

  • 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.

    Comment by Michael Heister — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 11:50am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Simone — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 4:59am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by joe — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 5:39am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Alboone — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 5:44am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Ted Morton — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 7:04am PST  Reply to this post

• Looks like Harvey’s proven he can buy off SAG. Nice.

  Comment by Dental Dan and The Usher Bots — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 7:11am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Jane — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 7:46am PST  Reply to this post

  • 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.

    Comment by heartfelt is best — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 5:02pm PST  Reply to this post

    • 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.

      Comment by Not in the Industry — Tuesday January 26, 2010 @ 10:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• 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?

  Comment by Anonymous — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 8:06am PST  Reply to this post

• I’ so glad that AVATAR did not get anything!

  Comment by regina — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 8:10am PST  Reply to this post

• Does BJ Novak not count as part of the Basterds ensemble? Why not? Anyone? Is he not SAG?

  Comment by TheRespondent — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 8:46am PST  Reply to this post

• What do you expect, when they let “hobbyists” like me vote…

  Comment by Skip — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 8:55am PST  Reply to this post

• “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.

  Comment by RB — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 9:36am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by mi — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 9:48am PST  Reply to this post

• @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.

  Comment by Sean — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 12:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• “Inglorious Basterds” sent SAG members a screener, The “Hurt Locker” did not. Big mistake.

  Comment by Joe Brown — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 1:04pm PST  Reply to this post

  • 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.

    Comment by Hurt Locker Robbed — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 5:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Jim — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 1:45pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You have to think of Best Ensemble as SAG’s “Best Movie”, because that is essentially how it shakes out in voter’s minds.

    Comment by FYI — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 5:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• Seems to me that those with the largest casts won Best Ensemble SAG Awards.

  Comment by Micki — Sunday January 24, 2010 @ 5:15pm PST  Reply to this post

• “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.

  Comment by buddhabob — Monday January 25, 2010 @ 9:11am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by buddhabob — Monday January 25, 2010 @ 9:25am PST  Reply to this post

• Gold Derby and the other experts predicted Basterds to win it all. Not an upset.

  Comment by Matthew — Monday January 25, 2010 @ 10:53am PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by go away Taranteenyboppers — Monday January 25, 2010 @ 4:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• 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)

  Comment by alan ruck — Tuesday January 26, 2010 @ 7:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Not in the Industry — Tuesday January 26, 2010 @ 10:53pm PST  Reply to this post