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The 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Sunday, January 25 in Los Angeles and aired live on TNT and TBS.
The cast of the film version of Slumdog Millionaire won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture, the Guild’s version of Best Picture. Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Television Comedy Series went to NBC’s 30 Rock, which was accepted by Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski, and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Television Drama Series went to AMC’s Mad Men, which includes stage stars Elisabeth Moss, Bryan Batt, John Slattery, and Robert Morse.
Individual acting winners included Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Sally Field (Brothers and Sisters), Paul Giamatti (John Adams), Hugh Laurie (House), Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight), Laura Linney (John Adams), Sean Penn (Milk), Meryl Streep (Doubt), and Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Tony Award winner James Earl Jones received the the Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.
Additional presenters for the evening included Anthony Hopkins, Katie Holmes, Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandon, Rosario Dawson, Kiefer Sutherland, Evan Rachel Wood, Claire Danes, Greg Kinnear, Christina Applegate, Taye Diggs, Amy Poehler, Emily Blunt, Jon Hamm, John Krasinski, Eric McCormack, Kyra Sedgwick, Marisa Tomei, and Kristin Scott Thomas.
For more information, visit www.sag.org.
