The 14th Screen Actors Guild Award on 27th January 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the Screen Actors Guild. This prestigious award, where actors vote for actors started off with testimonials by some of the members of the guild and each time they will end their testimonial by saying ‘I am an actor’ proudly.
Then, the awards giving ceremony started with Steve Carell and Tina Fey, both from The Office and 30 Rock respectively, giving out the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Award. This award is won by James Grandolfini who plays Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. James was shocked to know that he had won the first award and said, ” I didn’t know this was the first award. Man, this is kind of freaky.” Next, Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta, both from Hairspray stated the nomination of Hairspray for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award. After that, another cast of Hairspray, Zac Efron together with Debra Messing gives out the next award. The Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series is won by Edie Falco, who is also from The Sopranos. Then, to bring us back in time to the history of the Screen Actors Guild, a video of Blair Underwood explaining a brief history of the guild was shown. Continuing with the awards giving ceremony, Vanessa Williams from Ugly Betty and William Peterson from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation presented the next award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Since the casts of The Sopranos had won the first two awards, there’s no doubt that they’ll also win this award. This is their second time winning this award. Thus, they have dominated the drama genre for this year.
-> The cast of The Sopranos who dominated the drama category of the 14th Screen Actors Guild award show.
After that, two casts of Into The Wild, Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook introduced Into The Wild as one of the nominations for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award. Then, Javier Bardem was awarded the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as Anton Chigurh in the movie, No Country For Old Man.
Diving into the comedy category, Chandra Wilson and Eric Dane, both from Grey’s Anatomy presented the award for the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. And the actor goes to…Tina Fey for her performance in 30 Rock as Liz Lemon. She ended her acceptance speech by thanking the Screen Actors Guild for supporting the Writers Guild of America, which she is also a member of. Next, the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series was presented by James Marsden and Kate Beckinsale, who are from Hairspray and Vacancy respectively. The award also goes to a cast of 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin who plays Jack Donaghy. Unfortunately, he could not be there to receive the award. Then, Russell Crowe indicates American Gangster as a nomination for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award. Up next, Micheal C. Hall and Jeanne Tripplehorn gives out the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. After watching The Sopranos dominating the drama genre, you would think that 30 Rock would dominate the comedy genre, but the award goes to the cast of The Office. Then again, some people might not be surprised as this is their second consecutive win.
-> Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and the cast of The Office.
A video of Blair Underwood is shown again, and this time, it was about the contributions of the Screen Actors Guild in the past years. Next is a word from the president of the guild, Alan Rosenberg. Then, Denis Leary gave a brief speech about Charles Durning, who is the recipient of the Life Achievement Award and a video on Charles Durning’s life journey was shown. Before he became an actor, he was a dancer, a boxer, and even a World War II veteran. After the video was, Burt Reynolds who appears in several films together with Charles Durning presented him the award.
-> Charles Durning, who had won the Life Achievement Award.
Next, James Spader from Boston Legal and Holly Hunter presents the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. The award goes to Kevin Kline for his performance in As You Like It as Jacques. However, Kevin Kline was not there to receive the award. Ben Foster who acts as Charlie Prince in 3:10 to Yuma includes the movie as one of the nominees for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries is next and is presented by the 87 years old, Mickey Rooney. The award is won by Queen Latifah for her role as Ana in Life Support, but she could not make it to the award show either. Then, Josh Brolin presented a video entitled ‘In Memoriam’ in remembrance of the dearly departed actors.
-> Kevin Kline and Queen Latifah who both could not make it to the award ceremony.
The 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards show continued with a video of Blair Underwood on the progression of the industry throughout the years. Viggo Mortensen then presents the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. And the award goes to Ruby Dee for her role as Mama Lucas in American Gangster. After that, Tommy Lee Jones states the nomination of No Country For Old Man, in which he acts as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award.
Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey who both acted in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and most recently Fool’s Gold presents the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. The award goes to Daniel Day-Lewis who has won the same award for his performance in Gangs Of New York and now, for his role as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. Next, Forest Withaker takes on the stage to present the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role award to Julie Christie for her performance in Away From Her.
The last award given out for the night was presented by Tom Cruise. He presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which had been the talk of the night. Finally, the anticipation ends and the award goes to the cast of No Country For Old Man. Josh Brolin gave the acceptance speech in representative of the 47 casts in the movie. He and Woody Harrelson gave the last laughs of the night as Woody interrupts Josh’s speech. Then, Tom Cruise closes the award giving ceremony and bid everyone goodnight.
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