‘The Help’ Actors Receive Top SAG Awards as Union Boards Vote to Merge
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The red-carpet glamor and prestige of the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards last night put the pre-Oscar spotlight on the cast of “The Help” in the theatrical motion picture category, with actors themselves choosing the best of the best.
“The Help” cast also was recognized with Viola Davis taking the award for best performance by a female lead and Octavia Spencer receiving the honor for best supporting female actor. Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) was credited with best performance in a male leading role and Christopher Plummer (“Beginners”) took the award for best supporting actor. Top television performance awards went to Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Lange, Betty White and Kate Winslet, with television ensemble honors taken by “Boardwalk Empire” and Modern Family.” Mary Tyler Moore received SAG’s highest honor, the 48th annual Life Achievement Award. See the full list of awards here.
This year’s awards came as the national boards of SAG and AFTRA (Television and Radio Artists) in separate meetings over the weekend approved a merger between the two mega-entertainment unions. SAG National President Ken Howard said the agreement, which will be voted on by members in February and March, is a “terrific outcome.” Read the rest of this entry »
Screen Actors to Honor Mary Tyler Moore
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We loved Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and as the iconic Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” roles in which she created a new paradigm for female leads in television.
Now, her colleagues and co-workers plan to honor Moore with the Screen Actors (SAG) Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. She will receive the award at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards—the nation’s largest and only-nationally televised all-union awards show—which premieres live on TNT and TBS Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT and 5 p.m. PT. SAG represents nearly 120,000 actors in film, television, industrials, commercials and music videos.
An accomplished actress, Moore has won seven Emmys, a Tony and an Academy Award nomination. She has won honors for her courageous performances, including her role as TV correspondent Betty Rollin who was battling breast cancer in “First, You Cry.” On the big screen, she has portrayed characters as varied as Beth Jarrett, a bitter mother coping with the death of a son in “Ordinary People,” to Elvis Presley’s last female co-star in “Change of Habit.” She was a hit on Broadway playing a quadriplegic sculptor fighting to determine her own destiny in “Whose Life Is It, Anyway?”
Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Melissa Leo, Christian Bale Get SAG Top Awards
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The movies “The King’s Speech” and “The Fighter” and the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” were the big winners at last night’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, the nation’s largest and only nationally televised all-union awards show.
Their fellow actors awarded Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale top honors for performances in motion pictures and Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Al Pacino and Betty White for performances in television. The awards for TV ensemble went to the casts of “Boardwalk Empire” and “Modern Family.”
In her acceptance speech, Portman paid tribute to the union’s important role:
I’ve been working since I was 11 years old. You made sure I wasn’t working too long, made sure I got my education while I was working. I’m so grateful to have this union protecting me every day.
Screen Actors to Honor Ernest Borgnine
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For more than six decades, Ernest Borgnine has played an astounding range of characters on television, the big screen and on stage. His roles have ranged from the jovial and lovable captain on TV’s popular series “McHale’s Navy,” to the vicious “Fatso” Judson, who beat Frank Sinatra’s Maggio to a pulpy death in the Oscar-winning film “From Here to Eternity.”
He has portrayed the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover twice and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe as the title character in the movie “Marty.” In his latest effort, he joins an all-star cast—Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Cox—in the movie “Red.”
Now, his colleagues and co-workers plan to honor him with the Screen Actors (SAG) Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Borgnine, 93, will receive the award at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards—the nation’s largest and only-nationally televised all-union awards show—which premieres live on TNT and TBS Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT. SAG represents nearly 120,000 actors in film, television, industrials, commercials and music videos.
Five SAG Lifetime Achievement Winners Featured in Film Marathon
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One night before the Screen Actors (SAG) honor Hollywood’s finest performers, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will pay tribute to five actors who won SAG’ s highest honor: the Life Achievement Award. TCM’s four-film prime-time presentation airs Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, the night before a live broadcast of the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards—the nation’s largest and only nationally televised all-union awards show.
TCM’s tribute will begin at 8 p.m. EST with the 1935 comedy short “Tit for Tat,” starring Stan Laurel, who received the Life Achievement Award in 1963. Next up, Jack Lemmon, who was honored by SAG in 1989, stars in the Neil Simon comedy “The Out-of-Towners” (1969). Sidney Poitier, honored in 1999, and Ruby Dee, honored in 2000, star in the dramatic adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961). And the night closes out with 1998 honoree Kirk Douglas in the suspenseful Western “Last Train from Gun Hill” (1959).
Screen Actors to Honor Betty White
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Although best known for her role as Rose Nylund on the 1980s “Golden Girls” TV series and as Sue Ann Nivens on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Betty White has for six decades been a beloved comedienne, pioneering television producer, host, author and animal rights advocate.
Often called “America’s Sweetheart,” White has won six Emmys, including the first and only Daytime Emmy for Best Game Show Host for a woman. In 1952, she became a Hollywood pioneer when she and two colleagues formed their own production company, creating the nationally televised comedy series “Life with Elizabeth.” The series made White one of only a few women with creative control before and behind the camera in television’s early years.
Now, her colleagues and co-workers plan to honor her with the Screen Actors (SAG) Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. White will receive the award at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards—the nation’s largest and only-nationally televised all-union awards show—which premieres live on TNT and TBS Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT. SAG represents nearly 120,000 actors in film, television, industrials, commercials and music videos.
