Sunday, January 25, 2009

The SAGS Tonight

THE SAGS TONIGHT

The Screen Actors Guild awards are tonight, and they're going to be playing on TBS & TNT simultaneously at 8 p.m. eastern time. If you're lucky, you'll be able to see it yourself, and won't be working--like me. Either way, nothing to really say here, but here are some quick predictions to throw out at you:

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Sean Penn, Milk

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

BEST ENSEMBLE
Slumdog Millionaire

I don't have much conviction behind any of these predictions. Slumdog has won everything, so why not this one as well? As for the individual awards, I find it hard to think anyone can beat Ledger, and I think Cruz wins to cement her front-runner status in the Oscar campaign. For the leads, Penn is lucky that his only real competition--Rourke--is the only person in Hollywood that has a worse public relations record than he does, and that helps Penn in the end, though that race is getting a lot closer. For lead actress, I really have no idea. Hard to bet against Streep, but she hasn't had a major win at all during the Oscar season; and it seems to be destiny for Winslet to win the Oscar this year, but she wasn't Oscar-nominated for this performance. I say Hathaway, for little reason other than its my favorite performance of the group. Enjoy!

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