NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 15th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS

Nominations for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding performances in 2008 in five film and eight primetime television categories and for the SAG honors for film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood. First the Golden Globes got us excited and now this! The entire list of nominees was way too long and exciting for us to post so we thought we'd give you just a taste of who in the world of movies were nominated this year! Who are you hoping will win?

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

RICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale - "THE VISITOR" (Overture Films)
FRANK LANGELLA / Richard Nixon - "FROST/NIXON" (Universal Pictures)
SEAN PENN / Harvey Milk - "MILK" (Focus Features)
BRAD PITT / Benjamin Button - "THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON" (Paramount Pictures)
MICKEY ROURKE / Randy - "THE WRESTLER" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

ANNE HATHAWAY / Kym - "RACHEL GETTING MARRIED" (Sony Pictures Classics)
ANGELINA JOLIE / Christine Collins - "CHANGELING" (Universal Pictures)
MELISSA LEO / Ray Eddy - "FROZEN RIVER" (Sony Pictures Classics)
MERYL STREEP / Sister Aloysius Beauvier - "DOUBT" (Miramax Films)
KATE WINSLET / April Wheeler - "REVOLUTIONARY ROAD" (Paramount Vantage)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

JOSH BROLIN / Dan White - "MILK" (Focus Features)
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. / Kirk Lazarus - "TROPIC THUNDER" (Paramount Pictures)
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Father Brendan Flynn - "DOUBT" (Miramax Films)
HEATH LEDGER / Joker - "THE DARK KNIGHT" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
DEV PATEL / Older Jamal - "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

AMY ADAMS / Sister James - "DOUBT" (Miramax Flms)
PENÉLOPE CRUZ / Maria Elena - "VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA" (The Weinstein Company)
VIOLA DAVIS / Mrs. Miller - "DOUBT" (Miramax Films)
TARAJI P. HENSON / Queenie - "THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON" (Paramount Pictures)
KATE WINSLET / Hanna Schmitz - "THE READER" (The Weinstein Company)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

DOUBT (Miramax)
FROST/NIXON (Universal Pictures)
MILK (Focus Features)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount Pictures)

Screen Actors Guild Award nominations

Here are the nominees for the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The show will air on Sunday, January 27.

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
GEORGE CLOONEY / Michael Clayton – “Michael Clayton”
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Daniel Plainview – “There Will Be Blood”
RYAN GOSLING / Lars Lindstrom – “Lars And The Real Girl”
EMILE HIRSCH / Christopher McCandless– “Into The Wild”
VIGGO MORTENSEN / Nikolai – “Eastern Promises”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
CATE BLANCHETT / Queen Elizabeth I – “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
JULIE CHRISTIE / Fiona – “Away From Her”
MARION COTILLARD / Edith Piaf – “La Vie En Rose”
ANGELINA JOLIE / Mariane Pearl – “A Mighty Heart”
ELLEN PAGE / Juno MacGuff – “Juno”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
CASEY AFFLECK / Robert Ford – “The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford” (\
JAVIER BARDEM / Anton Chigurh – “No Country For Old Men”
HAL HOLBROOK / Ron Franz – “Into The Wild”
TOMMY LEE JONES / Ed Tom Bell – “No Country For Old Men”
TOM WILKINSON / Arthur Edens – “Michael Clayton”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
CATE BLANCHETT / Jude – “I’m Not There”
RUBY DEE / Mama Lucas – “American Gangster”
CATHERINE KEENER / Jan Burres – “Into The Wild”
AMY RYAN / Helene McCready – “Gone Baby Gone”
TILDA SWINTON / Karen Crowder – “Michael Clayton”

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
3:10 TO YUMA
AMERICAN GANGSTER (
HAIRSPRAY
INTO THE WILD (Paramount Vantage)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Miramax Films)


PRIMETIME TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
MICHAEL KEATON / James Jesus Angleton – “The Company
KEVIN KLINE / Jacques – “As You Like It”
OLIVER PLATT / George Steinbrenner – “The Bronx is Burning”
SAM SHEPARD / Frank Whiteley – “Ruffian”
JOHN TURTURRO / Billy Martin – “The Bronx is Burning”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
ELLEN BURSTYN / Posey Benetto – “Mitch Albom’s For One More Day”
DEBRA MESSING / Molly Kagan – “The Starter Wife”
ANNA PAQUIN / Elaine Goodale – “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”
QUEEN LATIFAH / Ana – “Life Support “
VANESSA REDGRAVE / Woman – “The Fever”
GENA ROWLANDS / Melissa Eisenbloom – “What If God Were the Sun?”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesJAMES GANDOLFINI / Tony Soprano – “The Sopranos”
MICHAEL C. HALL / Dexter Morgan – “Dexter”
JON HAMM / Don Draper – “Mad Men”
HUGH LAURIE / Dr. Gregory House – “House”
JAMES SPADER / Alan Shore – “Boston Legal”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
GLENN CLOSE / Patty Hewes – “Damages”
EDIE FALCO / Carmela Soprano – “The Sopranos”
SALLY FIELD / Nora Walker – “Brothers & Sisters”
HOLLY HUNTER / Grace Hanadarko – “Saving Grace”
KYRA SEDGWICK / Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson – “The Closer”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy – “30 Rock”
STEVE CARELL / Michael Scott – “The Office”
RICKY GERVAIS / Andy Millman – “Extras”
JEREMY PIVEN / Ari Gold – “Entourage”
TONY SHALHOUB / Adrian Monk – “Monk”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE / Samantha Newly – “Samantha Who?”
AMERICA FERRERA / Betty Suarez – “Ugly Betty”
TINA FEY / Liz Lemon – “30 Rock”
MARY-LOUISE PARKER / Nancy Botwin – “Weeds”
VANESSA WILLIAMS / Wilhelmina Slater – “Ugly Betty”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
BOSTON LEGAL
THE CLOSER
GREY’S ANATOMY
MAD MEN
THE SOPRANOS

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
30 ROCK
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
ENTOURAGE
THE OFFICE
UGLY BETTY


SAG HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
300
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
I AM LEGEND
THE KINGDOM
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
24
HEROES
LOST
ROME
THE UNIT

Screen Actors Guild Awards 44th Annual Life Achievement AwardCharles Durning