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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Same-old Screen Actors awards, but with one surprise
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There wasn’t much doubt before Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards as to who are the leading contenders for acting Oscars. There’s even less doubt now.
Helen Mirren (“The Queen”), Forest Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland”), Eddie Murphy (“Dreamgirls”) and Jennifer Hudson (“Dreamgirls”) all won movie awards. Their consistent steamroll through the recent awards shows makes them the people to beat at the Oscars.
But the SAG awards did have one nice surprise. “Little Miss Sunshine,” which earlier was named best movie of 2006 by the Producers Guild of America, won the SAG award for best cast, which confirms it has a viable fan base among Hollywood industry awards voters and has a chance at winning Oscar’s best picture.
With its preponderance of predictability, the SAG awards were a virtual bore. Pretty much everyone who won a Golden Globe in the television and movie categories ended up winning a SAG.
A few random observations from the night:
1. Who in Hollywood isn’t in the cast of “Grey’s Anatomy”? They seemed to be everywhere - especially during E!’s red-carpet coverage.
2. Marg Helgenberger (“CSI”) and movie actress Marcia Gay Harden would have tied if there’d been a category for most extreme front headlights.
3. With Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie not at these awards, the camera was left to fall occasionally on mega celebrity replacements like Ashton Kutcher.
4. Here’s the ultimate SAG message to the Oscars and the Golden Globes: If one really really tries, one can have an awards show in two hours AND end on time.
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