SAG Award Winners 2009

The winners for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on January 25, 2009. The show aired live simultaneously on TNT and TBS.*Official Site: Screen Actors Guild Awards

Two panels consisting of 2100 SAG members, who are randomly selected from across the United States choose the nominees for each of the categories in film and television. After a final ballot is determined by the two panels, all of the members of the Screen Actors Guild select from that ballot. Those results then determine the winners of the outstanding performances of the year from each category.Sagawards.org: Why the Awards are unique

The Screen Actors Guild traditionally honors a distinguished member of the Guild with the SAG Life Achievemnt Award. The recipient of the Award at the 15th annual SAG Awards is actor James Earl Jones. The President of the Screen Actors Guild Alan Rosenberg stated, James Earl Jones' distinguished career on stage, in film, on television, in commercials and as a vocal presence without peer commands our admiration and respect. His long and quiet devotion to advancing literacy, the arts and humanities on a national and local scale deserves our appreciation. It is our honor to bestow the Guild’s highest tribute on this extraordinary actor. SAG: James Earl Jones honored with 2008 SAG Life Achievement Award

• Winner : Slumdog Millionaire

• Nominees:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Doubt

• Frost/Nixon

• Milk

• Slumdog Millionaire

• Winner : Sean Penn in Milk

• Nominees:

• Richard Jenkins in The Visitor

• Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon

• Sean Penn in Milk

• Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler

• Winner: Meryl Streep in Doubt

• Nominees:

• Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married

• Angelina Jolie in Changeling

• Melissa Leo in Frozen River

• Meryl Streep in Doubt

• Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road

• Winner : Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

• Nominees:

• Josh Brolin in Milk

• Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder

• Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt

• Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

• Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire

• Winner : Kate Winslet in The Reader

• Nominees:

• Amy Adams in Doubt

• Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

• Viola Davis in Doubt

• Taraji Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Kate Winslet in The Reader

• Winner : Mad Men

• Nominees:

• Boston Legal

• The Closer

• Dexter

• House M.D.

• Mad Men

• Winner : 30 Rock

• Nominees:

• Desperate Housewives

• Entourage

• The Office

• Weeds

• Winner : Paul Giamatti in John Adams

• Nominees:

• Ralph Fiennes in Bernard and Doris

• Paul Giamatti in John Adams

• Kevin Spacey in Recount

• Kiefer Sutherland in 24: Redemption

• Tom Wilkinson in John Adams

• Winner : Laura Linney in Recount

• Nominees:

• Laura Dern in Recount

• Laura Linney in Recount

• Shirley MacLaine in Coco Chanel

• Phylicia Rashad in A Raisin in the Sun

• Susan Sarandon in Bernard and Doris

• Winner : Sally Field in Brothers and Sisters

• Nominees:

• Sally Field in Brothers and Sisters

• Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

• Holly Hunter in Saving Grace

• Elisabeth Moss in Mad Men

• Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer

• Winner : Hugh Laurie in House M.D.

• Nominees:

• Michael C. Hall in Dexter

• Jon Hamm in Mad Men

• Hugh Laurie in House M.D.

• William Shatner in Boston Legal

• James Spader in Boston Legal

• Winner : Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock

• Nominees:

• Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock

• Steve Carell in The Office

• David Duchovny in Californication

• Jeremy Piven in Entourage

• Tony Shalhoub in Monk

• Winner : Tina Fey in 30 Rock

• Nominees:

• Christina Applegate in Samantha Who?

• America Ferrera in Ugly Betty

• Tina Fey in 30 Rock

• Mary-Louise Parker in Weeds

• Tracey Ullman in Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

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