16th Screen Actors Guild Awards

The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2009, were presented on January 23, 2010 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fourteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.

The nominees were announced on December 17, 2009 by Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater.^[1]

Nominees & Winners

Screen Actors Guild 46th Annual Life Achievement Award

• Betty White

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake

• George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
• Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. First Class William James

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy

• Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy
• Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

• Matt Damon – Invictus as Francois Pienaar
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Cpt. Tony Stone
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston

• Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
• Diane Kruger – Inglourious Basterds as Bridget von Hammersmark

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

Inglourious Basterds

• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Nine
• Precious

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble

Star Trek

• Public Enemies
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Television

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance as Lt. Col. Mike Strobl

• Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story as Ben Carson
• Jeremy Irons – Georgia O'Keeffe as Alfred Stieglitz
• Kevin Kline – Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
• Tom Wilkinson – A Number as Salter

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens as "Little" Edith Bouvier Beale

• Joan Allen – Georgia O'Keeffe as Georgia O'Keeffe
• Ruby Dee – America as Mrs. Harper
• Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens as "Big" Edith Bovier Beale
• Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby as Mary Griffith

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Michael C. Hall – Dexter as Dexter Morgan

• Simon Baker – The Mentalist as Patrick Jane
• Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad as Walter White
• Jon Hamm - Mad Men as Don Draper
• Hugh Laurie – House as Gregory House

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife as Alicia Florrick

• Patricia Arquette – Medium as Allison DuBois
• Glenn Close - Damages as Patty Hewes
• Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Olivia Benson
• Holly Hunter – Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko
• Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer as Det. Brenda Leigh Johnson

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock as Jack Donaghy

• Steve Carell – The Office as Michael Scott
• Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David
• Tony Shalhoub – Monk as Adrian Monk
• Charlie Sheen – Two and a Half Men as Charlie Harper

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Tina Fey – 30 Rock as Liz Lemon

• Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? as Samantha Newly
• Toni Collette – United States of Tara as Tara Gregson
• Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie as Jackie Peyton
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – The New Adventures of Old Christine as Christine Campbell

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Mad Men

• The Closer
• Dexter
• The Good Wife
• True Blood

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Glee

• 30 Rock
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Modern Family
• The Office

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

24

• The Closer
• Dexter
• Heroes
• The Unit

In Memoriam

Introduced by Sigourney Weaver, the guild remember his members who died last year: Natasha Richardson, Monte Hale, Henry Gibson, Betsy Blair, Robert Ginty, Ed McMahon, Philip Carey, Dom DeLuise, Brittany Murphy, Carl Ballantine, Ron Silver, John Quade, Dennis Cole, Richard Todd, Fred Travalena, Cheryl Holdridge, Joseph Wiseman, Arnold Stang, Gene Barry, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Farrah Fawcett, Russ Conway, Soupy Sales, Gale Storm, Steven Gilborn, Lou Jacobi, Dick Durock, Michael Jackson, Wayne Tippit, Harve Presnell, Alaina Reed Hall, James Whitmore, Jim Hutchinson, Karl Malden, Paul Burke, Edward Woodward, Frank Aletter, Bea Arthur, David Carradine, Jennifer Jones and Patrick Swayze. Note: They have not included Pat Hingle (He was in the last year's ceremony).

Films with multiple nominations

Three

• Inglourious Basterds (won two)
• Precious (won one)
• Up in the Air

Two

• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Invictus
• The Last Station
• Nine

Television programs with multiple nominations

Three

• 30 Rock (won two)
• The Closer
• Dexter (won one)

Two

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• The Good Wife (won one)
• Grey Gardens (won one)
• Mad Men (won one)
• The Office

References

External links

• SAG Awards official site