17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Winners: ‘The King’s Speech’ Entire Cast, Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo

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• I’m happy for all that won honestly. How anyone rates a performance as better than another is a little absurd so lets all calm down a bit. There were some great performances this year and I am glad I was chosen on the nominating committee as I got to see most. I agree Aaron Eckhart was phenomenal and I do wished he got more recognition as Sam Rockwell and Juliette Lewis should. Juliette Lewis was awesome in conviction. Also Annette is a great actress who has a great body of work but Natalie’s part in black swan had such a visible well acted arc that its easy to see why she is winning. Both were great as was Julianne Moore.

  On the TV side I am waiting for Ty Burrell to win something soon…

  Comment by Paul — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 8:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• The King’s Speech is so dreadfully overrated. Its very much a solid film with solid performances, but it doesn’t bring anything new or exciting to the world of cinema that we hadn’t already seen before. The Social Network on the other hand is a modern day classic. I’m sad that its only going to walk away with a screenplay award now.

  Comment by AMC Fan — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 8:58pm PST  Reply to this post

  • The Social Network is a really good movie, but it’s no classic. I don’t know that any film this year deserved the accolades they were giving TSN. That particular emperor has no clothes. The only real injustice would be if Sorkin didn’t win adapted screenplay.

    Comment by Anonymous — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 9:36pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I’ve never understood what was supposed to be so ground-breaking about The Social Network. Is it only the fact that it’s about Facebook, a social networking site, and that is somehow “an instant classic” because social networking is supposedly so new? I am honestly curious, because while I loved it, that is never something I got. It seemed like a movie about how something well known got started, which isn’t exactly uncommon, about how technology can isolate you if you aren’t careful, and about how being a jerk usually causes you to end up with no friends, even if you have a ton of money – none of which is groundbreaking either. It was a fabulous film, but the way people talk about it, you’d think it was the second coming.

    Comment by Jamie — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 3:33am PST  Reply to this post

• Congrats to The King’s Speech, or as the teen-friendly PG-13 cut will be known, The King’s Spiatch.

  Comment by Ulgar — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 10:03pm PST  Reply to this post

  • This has officially cracked me up!

    Comment by Kate — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 5:27am PST  Reply to this post

• That was the most underwhelming list of TV winners since the SAGs were started. Alec Baldwin *again?* And the lack of supporting actor categories on the TV side is just plain inexcusable. Hint: Betty White is *supporting,* not *lead.*

  Comment by Rob J. — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 10:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• Great to see Lynne Segall and Nic Paul representing the Finke empire at the awards.

  Comment by indiemarketer — Sunday January 30, 2011 @ 10:56pm PST  Reply to this post

• I know I’m in the minority here, but I don’t like Modern Family. I find every single pratfall/gag coming a mile away, and think the gay couple and Sofia V. completely stereotypical. Julie Bowen is NO Jane Krakowski!

  Comment by in the minority — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 3:49am PST  Reply to this post

• Boardwalk Empire is a mystery to me. The show is beautifully produced but with its uninteresting narrative and lack of worthwhile character development it doesn’t make sense that it’s getting the awards recognition that it is. Buscemi is good on it, but not outstanding. The same goes for mostly the entire cast.

  Happy to see Modern Family win (best broadcast sitcom after Community).

  The King’s Speech is a stereotypical winner, it’s a safe movie with excellent acting (I think Rush was better than Firth, as the movie rested on his shoulders, but Bale was better than Rush, just in a completely different way.) though the direction was somewhat lacking. Hooper seemed unsure of what tone he wanted for the flick, and I’m honestly shocked he won the DGA.

  Wound up watching that ultra casual weekend football game on Fox instead. I think the excitement was probably about on par with the SAG awards.

  Comment by Rick — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 6:09am PST  Reply to this post

  • Boardwalk needs to work more on character development. It’s been way to absorbed in plot. These characters have no inner life for us to follow. Too many monologues.
    That said I love the show and think it’s beautiful but has room for improvement. I hope the second season is more emotionally involving.

    Comment by David — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 7:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• Well, it would appear that the Oscars will have few surprises as the major awards seem to be getting a groove.

  The many union mentions at the SAG Awards was interesting. I liked Colin Firth’s anecdote about getting his SAG card.

  At this rate, other than the show open with Franco and Hathaway…not too sure what will generate and keep audiences for the Academy Awards.

  Thank God, next weekend we get an awards break with the Super Bowl.

  Comment by tom — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 7:22am PST  Reply to this post

• It’s great to see all the diversity nominations and diversity winners.

  Comment by Elia — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 7:36am PST  Reply to this post

  • maybe diversity should act better

    Comment by waaaah — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 4:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• Rick, the acting by Steve Buscemi in the scene where Nucky tells Margaret the story of his dead family was phenomenal. It had a huge emotional impact and Buscemi played it with a great intensity.

  Comment by Jim — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 8:10am PST  Reply to this post

• Does anyone think that the SAG awards are a leading indicator of the Academy Awards? I almost feel that since the Academies are far more popular, the SAG awards are do not have much credibility at all. Most of the celebrities don’t even show up for the event, which goes to show many don’t see it as important…

  Comment by Troy — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 10:52am PST  Reply to this post

  • Are you not familiar with awards shows? The SAG Awards are the awards show that is the best indicator of who’s going to win which Oscar. Most people who win a SAG Award go on to win an Oscar for the same movie/role. And there’s only been a handful of times that the movie that won for best ensemble cast at the SAG Awards didn’t go on to win the Oscar for Best Picture. This is because the people who vote in both awards races are mostly the same group of people.

    Comment by Jamie — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 12:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• CAN LEA MICHELE GET AN AWARD?

  Comment by GLEEK4LIFE — Monday January 31, 2011 @ 11:26am PST  Reply to this post