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Screen Actors Guild Nominations Announced

Author: Editor  //  Category: Entertainment, Video Reviews

Doubt_lDoubt topped other films with five SAG Award nominations, which were announced today. The Meryl Streep-starrer, which is buzzed to be more of an acting contender than a Best Picture one, was joined by Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which each earned three nods.

Clint Eastwood was again shut out for his leading role in Gran Torino, which is further dimming his chances at Oscar. Kate Winslet, on the other hand, is becoming more than likely to be a double Oscar nominee next month, with her leading role in Revolutionary Road and supporting role in The Reader (her Road co-star Leonardo DiCaprio was not nominated in the lead acting category this time around; that slot went to The Visitor's Richard Jenkins, who has reportedly been campaigning hard for Oscar, along with The Wrestler's Mickey Rourke).

Over on the TV side, Mad Men and 30 Rock again dominated the nominees (although at this point, what else is new?). Here is the complete list of nominees:

FILM

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

  • Doubt
  • Frost/Nixon
  • Milk
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

TV

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

  • Ralph Fiennes, Bernard and Doris
  • Paul Giamatti, John Adams
  • Kevin Spacey, Recount
  • Kiefer Sutherland, 24: Redemption
  • Tom Wilkinson, John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

  • Laura Dern, Recount
  • Laura Linney, John Adams
  • Shirley MacLaine, Coco Chanel
  • Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
  • Susan Sarandon, Bernard and Doris

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

  • Michael C. Hall, Dexter
  • Jon Hamm, Mad Men
  • Hugh Laurie, House
  • William Shatner, Boston Legal
  • James Spader, Boston Legal

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

  • Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
  • Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
  • Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
  • Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

  • Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
  • Steve Carell, The Office
  • David Duchovny, Californication
  • Jeremy Piven, Entourage
  • Tony Shalhoub, Monk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

  • Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
  • America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
  • Tina Fey, 30 Rock
  • Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
  • Tracey Ullman, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

  • Boston Legal
  • Dexter
  • House
  • Mad Men
  • The Closer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

  • 30 Rock
  • Desperate Housewives
  • Entourage
  • The Office
  • Weeds

SAG HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

  • The Dark Knight
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • Iron Man
  • Wanted

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

  • Friday Night Lights
  • Heroes
  • Prison Break
  • The Unit
  • The Closer

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD'S 45th LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

James Earl Jones

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Time’s Top 10 Movies and TV Series

Author: Editor  //  Category: Entertainment, Video Reviews

Wall-E

Time’s Top 10 Everything of 2008 includes some interesting choices on their movies and TV lists. The movies, picked by Richard Corliss:

  1. Wall-E
  2. Synedoche, New York
  3. My Winnipeg
  4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
  5. Milk
  6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  7. Slumdog Millionaire
  8. Iron Man
  9. Speed Racer (Speed Racer?)
  10. Encounters at the End of the World

Note that among the summer blockbusters and year-end Oscar bait, Corliss does not include The Dark Knight, apparently lumping it among the action movies in his Iron Man slot–"In an excellent year for action films (Wanted, Hellboy II, The Dark Knight and, as you’ll soon see, Speed Racer), this was the coolest movie machine."  Then again maybe not, as he does give a separate slot to Speed Racer ("Operating a pitch of delirious precision, the movie is a rich,
cartoonish dream: non-stop Op art, and a triumph of virtual virtuosity."). He gave TDK a positive review, so either he likes to be different, or he just wanted the space for something more important (Speed Racer?).

Time’s top TV series, picked by James Poniewozik:

  1. The Shield
  2. Mad Men
  3. The Presidential Election
  4. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
  5. The Wire
  6. Breaking Bad
  7. Lost
  8. Battlestar Galactica
  9. Architecture School
  10. Chuck

Note that Dr. Horrible was actually an online show.  Poniewozik explains: "But the best thing to come of [the writers' strike] was this eccentric, tragicomic
musical, which–like the strike itself–helped redefine what could be
called ‘TV.’"  I’m all for it; Dr. Horrible is one of the more entertaining things I’ve watched this year.  –David

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