SAG Awards Date: January 30, 2011

COMMENTS (6)

• The proliferation of awards shows serve to devalue the few that had some meaning. Each of the professions have guilds and also have Academy members – say a 5% of the totals – which generally represent the fewer numbers that have had careers and have worked somewhat consistently and have maybe earned the right to share their opinions on their art or craft.
  The phony concept of a democratic esthetic only serves the egos of those not consulted. In addition, a show like the SAG awards merely copied the basic format of the Academy Award and now serves as a way to slice interest in that event by making it all the more redundent. SAG could have – if the need for a show was so strong – created something a bit different than the Oscar or Emmy awards; maybe zeroing in on commercial work or only smaller roles or some other aspect not already commented upon by the working members of their art in the two Academies. Unions should be concerned with working conditions, wages, health care and other quality of work issues.
  I have ignored all the mailings and ballots for this union award for the past 15 years and I gather many others do the same. I wish SAG would stick to its role.

  Comment by Robert Harper — Monday March 15, 2010 @ 3:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Let’s see if Ken Howard, Amy Aquino and David White kill it first. Hold off on the tux rentals.

  Comment by Plasma — Monday March 15, 2010 @ 4:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I have to say that just being on the same comment thread as Mr. Harper is an honor!

  Comment by iamnoahjames.com — Tuesday March 16, 2010 @ 11:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• We in Lowell, MA are rooting for The Figher!

  Comment by George DeLuca — Wednesday January 19, 2011 @ 9:07am PST  Reply to this post

• I liked the SAG awards better than the Peoples Choice and Golden Globe awards. The show should be about the winners not all the people they want to thank for winning the award. I watch the award shows because I want to see Hugh Laurie win an award for best actor on a TV series.

  Comment by Peggy Keith — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 8:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Your estimate is off. It is 1% of the actor population that actually receives any recognition of their work. The SAG awards is not redundant. It appears you need a history lesson. The Academy awards was created to keep the picture in the Theaters longer. In fact it had been referenced that the Best Male and Female actors were chosen by academy based upon whom they thought the public wanted to sleep with not necessarily on their skill or performance. The SAG awards is one place where anyone who is a member of SAG in good standing gets to vote on the actors who skill and performances elevate the art of acting. It is not a beauty contest. It is a way to tell our fellow actors good job. Not voting is a selfish act for you are withholding your voice from the process and quite possibly an actor who has worked hard and may not be so well known will suffer for it because your vote might have made the difference for this actor to be recognized.

  Comment by michelle — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 9:55pm PST  Reply to this post