Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Angelina Jolie Is Just Like Her Mom

Originally posted 01/26/2009 12:20PM

Angelina Jolie likes to please her fans, but respect from her peers is just as important, she says.

"It means a great deal," the actress told PEOPLE Sunday night of the SAG Awards, "especially because it is the people you respect and your fellow actors. You know they really understand your work when they watch it. They don't look at it just as a movie. They understand the technique behind performance."

Jolie was nominated for her leading role performance in Changeling, but Meryl Streep took home the Actor for Doubt.

The actress has an almost wistful devotion to her Screen Actors Guild card, she adds, because of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who passed away two years ago from ovarian cancer.

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Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Kate Winslet Takes a Diet and Exercise Hiatus

Originally posted 01/26/2009 10:20AM

She may be an old pro at awards shows, but Kate Winslet still has to deal with butterflies in her stomach.

"To be honest with you, I’m more nervous through this award season than I have ever been before in my life," she told PEOPLE on the red carpet of last night's SAG awards, where she took home the Actor for her role in The Reader. "I’m still not used to it at all."

To keep her sanity, Winslet has decided not to put any undue pressure on herself, saying she's "not exercising at all, and I’m eating whatever I like."

Is it working? Winslet thinks so. "Pressure? Gone!" she says. "That's how I'm going to get through it."
– Steve Helling

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Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Meryl Streep, Sean Penn Win Lead SAG Awards

Originally posted 01/25/2009 10:20PM

The Screen Actors Guild shared the wealth among this year's biggest stars, showering Sean Penn and Meryl Streep with leading actor awards during the live telecast Sunday.

Streep humorously acknowledged her surprise while accepting the award for outstanding female actor in a leading role for Doubt. "I didn't even buy a dress," said the actress, who wore black pants. "I'm really, really shocked."

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Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

SAG Awards a Crystal Ball into Oscars?

Originally posted 01/25/2009 08:40AM

Oddsmakers hoping to cash in on the Oscars might do well to tune in to Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards.

As shown by the fact that all but two of its movie-acting nominees are exactly the same as those singled out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SAG, the union that celebrates actors, is also very good at setting them up to win Oscars.

Furthermore, the SAG nominees for cast in a motion picture also closely mirror the Academy's picks for Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire all made both lists.

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Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Old Hollywood Glamour at SAG After-Party

Originally posted 01/23/2009 04:20PM

It's not an awards show without an after-party.

When the last statue is presented at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Hollywood's biggest movie and TV stars will mingle, munch and dance the night away at the official awards bash, sponsored by PEOPLE and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.

The Shrine Auditorium's parking lot is being tented and transformed into an old-style Hollywood club where the likes of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Anne Hathaway, Christina Applegate and Kiefer Sutherland can relax on leather couches and dine on Wolfgang Puck food. The Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp All Stars will provide the night's soundtrack.

Guests also will walk home with gift bags filled with goodies from L'Oreal Paris cosmetics, Green & Black's Organic Chocolate, and Grey Goose vodka. – Mary Margaret