SAG Awards, on Sunday 27!

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, made its debut in 1995, and has become one of the film industry’s most prized honors. The only televised awards shows to exclusively honor performers, it presents thirteen awards for acting in film and television in a fast moving two hour show which airs live on TNT and TBS. The awards focus on both individual performances as well as on the work of the entire ensemble of a drama series and comedy series, and the cast of a motion picture. These honors are fundamental to the spirit of the Screen Actors Guild Awards because they recognize what all actors know – that acting is a collaborative art. – The SAG

This year, the nominees are as follows:

Theatrical Motion Pictures

 

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

• Argo
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Les Misérables
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook

 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

• Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as “Pat”
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as “Abraham Lincoln”
• John Hawkes – The Sessions as “Mark”
• Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables as “Jean Valjean”
• Denzel Washington – Flight as “Whip Whitaker”

 

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as “Maya”
• Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone as “Stephanie”
• Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as “Tiffany”
• Helen Mirren – Hitchcock as “Alma Reville”
• Naomi Watts – The Impossible as “Maria”

 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Alan Arkin – Argo as “Lester Siegel”
• Javier Bardem – Skyfall as “Silva”
• Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as “Pat, Sr.”
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as “Lancaster Dodd”
• Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as “Thaddeus Stevens”

 

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Sally Field – Lincoln as “Mary Todd Lincoln”
• Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as “Fantine”
• Helen Hunt – The Sessions as “Cheryl”
• Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy as “Charlotte Bless”
• Maggie Smith – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as “Muriel Donnelly”

 




SAG Awards poster


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Primetime Television

 

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Boardwalk Empire
• Breaking Bad
• Downton Abbey
• Homeland
• Mad Men

 

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 30 Rock
• The Big Bang Theory
• Glee
• Modern Family
• Nurse Jackie
• The Office

 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire as “Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson”
• Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad as “Walter White”
• Jeff Daniels – The Newsroom as “Will McAvoy”
• Jon Hamm – Mad Men as “Don Draper”
• Damian Lewis – Homeland as “Nicholas Brody”

 

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Claire Danes – Homeland as “Carrie Mathison”
• Michelle Dockery – Downton Abbey as “Lady Mary Crawley”
• Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Asylum as “Sister Jude”
• Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife as “Alicia Florrick”
• Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey as “Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham”

 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock as “Jack Donaghy”
• Ty Burrell – Modern Family as “Phil Dunphy”
• Louis C.K. – Louie as “Louie”
• Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory as “Sheldon Cooper”
• Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family as “Cameron Tucker”

 

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie as “Jackie Peyton”
• Tina Fey – 30 Rock as “Liz Lemon”
• Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation as “Leslie Knope”
• Sofia Vergara – Modern Family as “Gloria Delgado-Pritchett”
• Betty White – Hot in Cleveland as “Elka Ostrovsky”

 

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

• Kevin Costner – Hatfields & McCoys as “‘Devil Anse’ Hatfield”
• Woody Harrelson – Game Change as “Steve Schmidt”
• Ed Harris – Game Change as “John McCain”
• Clive Owen – Hemingway & Gellhorn as “Ernest Hemingway”
• Bill Paxton – Hatfields & McCoys as “Randall McCoy”

 

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

• Nicole Kidman – Hemingway & Gellhorn as “Martha Gellhorn”
• Julianne Moore – Game Change as “Sarah Palin”
• Charlotte Rampling – Restless as “Eva Delectorskaya”
• Sigourney Weaver – Political Animals as “Elaine Barrish Hammond”
• Alfre Woodard – Steel Magnolias as “Ouiser”

 




Busy Philipps, the SAG Awards Social Media Ambassador


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Honors for Stunt Ensembles

 

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The Bourne Legacy
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Les Misérables
• Skyfall

 

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

• Boardwalk Empire
• Breaking Bad
• Game of Thrones
• Sons of Anarchy
• The Walking Dead

Screen Actors Guild is a Union composed by 125 thousand performers. Two thousand one hundred SAG members are selected at random to choose the nominees in the thirteen categories representing work in films and on television. After the nominees are announced, the entire membership body is allowed to vote for the winners.

On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to create SAG-AFTRA.

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