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15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Nominations Announced

Airdate : 12/18/2008

The nominations for this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards® were announced on Thursday, 12/18 at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood, California. The nominees represent the best performances in five film and eight primetime television categories. In addition to these, the SAG also recognized the best stunt ensembles in both film and television.

The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Sunday, 1/25/09 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The awards ceremony will take place at Los Angeles's Shrine Exposition Center.

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THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES


Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role

Richard Jenkins as Walter Vale in The Visitor
Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke as Randy in The Wrestler


Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading Role

Anne Hathaway as Kym in Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins in Changeling
Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy in Frozen River
Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt
Kate Winslet as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road


Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Supporting Role

Josh Brolin as Dan White in Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt
Heath Ledger as Joker in The Dark Knight
Dev Patel as Older Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire


Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role

Amy Adams as Sister James in Doubt
Penelope Cruz as Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller in Doubt
Taraji P. Henson as Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz in The Reader


Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Motion Picture

Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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PRIMETIME TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Television Movie Or Miniseries

Ralph Fiennes as Bernard Lafferty in Bernard and Doris
Paul Giamatti as John Adams in John Adams
Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain in Recount
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24: Redemption
Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin in John Adams


Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Television Movie Or Miniseries

Laura Dern as Katherine Harris in Recount
Laura Linney as Abigail Adams in John Adams
Shirley Maclaine as Coco Chanel in Coco Chanel
Phylicia Rashad as Lena Younger in Raisin in the Sun
Susan Sarandon as Doris Duke in Bernard and Doris


Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Drama Series

Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan in Dexter
Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men
Hugh Laurie as Gregory House in House M.D.
William Shatner as Denny Crane in Boston Legal
James Spader as Alan Shore in Boston Legal


Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Drama Series

Sally Field as Nora Walker in Brothers & Sisters
Mariska Hargitay as Det. Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko in Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson in Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick as Dep. Chief Brenda Johnson in The Closer


Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Comedy Series

Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock
Steve Carell as Michael Scott in The Office
David Duchovny as Hank Moody in Californication
Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold in Entourage
Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk in Monk


Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Comedy Series

Christina Applegate as Samantha Newly in Samantha Who?
America Ferrera as Betty Suarez in Ugly Betty
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in 30 Rock
Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin in Weeds
Tracey Ullman as Various Characters in Tracey Ullman's State of the Union


Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Drama Series

Boston Legal
Dexter
House M.D.
Mad Men
The Closer


Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Comedy Series

30 Rock
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

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SAG HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES


Outstanding Performance By A Stunt Ensemble In A Motion Picture

The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Wanted


Outstanding Performance By A Stunt Ensemble In A Television Series

Friday Night Lights
Heroes
Prison Break
The Unit
The Closer

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LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Screen Actors Guild Awards 45th Annual Life Achievement Award
James Earl Jones


 

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