Jan 26 2009
SAG Awards May Be A Tune-up For Ocsars
The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards was held Sunday in Los Angeles, and as with other award programs, serves as a tune-up for the oscars. The same names seem to pop up on the list of nominations, but those lists sometimes produce different winners, making it that much more difficult to predict oscar winners.
A few picks mirrored those of Golden Globe winners just a few weeks ago.. Kate Winslett won again in the Best Supporting Actress catagory, “30 Rock” is still the show to beat on television, and “Slumdog Millionaire” continues to gain weight as the oscar favorite for Best Picture. Heath Ledger again won posthumously for his role as Joker in “The Dark Knight”,
But Sean Penn took home the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, beating out Mickey Rourke, who won the Golden Globe.
A few years ago, there was talk that the industry was beginning to become over saturated with awards. But Hollywood appears to be warming up to the numerous awards programs, and the celebrity world seems to use them to validate winning the big prize at the Academy Awards.
