15th Screen Actors Guild Awards

15th Screen Actors Guild Awards
Awarded for Outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances
Date January 25, 2009 (2009-01-25)
Location Shrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California
Country United States
First awarded 1995
Most awards Film: The Dark Knight (2)
Television: 30 Rock (3)
Most nominations Film: Doubt (5)
Television: Boston Legal, 30 Rock, John Adams, Mad Men and The Closer (3)
Official website www.sagawards.org
Television/Radio coverage
Network TNT and TBS
simultaneous broadcast

The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2008, were presented on January 25, 2009. The ceremony was held at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the thirteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.

The nominees were announced on December 18, 2008 by Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater.

Doubt received the highest number of nominations among the film categories with five, four for individual performances and one for ensemble performance.[1] In the television categories, Boston Legal, 30 Rock, John Adams, Mad Men and The Closer had the most nominations with three each.[2]

The biggest winner of the evening was 30 Rock, which won in all three categories in which it was nominated. The Dark Knight won the most film awards, winning in both categories in which it was nominated.

Nominees and winners

Screen Actors Guild 45th Annual Life Achievement Award

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble

Television

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

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

In Memoriam

Susan Sarandon introduced a previously recorded "In Memoriam" segment which pay tribute to the actors who died last year: Charlton Heston, Ivan Dixon, Kim Chan, Don S. Davis, Majel Barrett, David Groh, Stanley Kamel, Harvey Korman, Edie Adams, Paul Scofield, Mel Ferrer, Sam Bottoms, Cyd Charisse, Robert Prosky, Robert DoQui, Don LaFontaine, Patrick McGoohan, Christopher Allport, Dick Martin, Paul Benedict, Gil Stratton, Beverly Garland, Sydney Pollack, Isaac Hayes, Evelyn Keyes, Barry Morse, John Phillip Law, Ruth Cohen, Ricardo Montalbán, Augusta Dabney, George Furth, Van Johnson, Bernie Mac, Pat Hingle, Don Galloway, George Carlin, Richard Widmark, Estelle Getty, Bernie Hamilton, Roy Scheider, Eartha Kitt, Nina Foch and Paul Newman.

Films with multiple nominations

Five
Three
Two

The Reader also won one award.

Television programs with multiple nominations

Three
Two

References

  1. ↑ O'Neil, Tom (2008-12-18). "SAG Awards nominations embrace Brangelina, snub Leo". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
  2. ↑ "'Doubt' Tops SAG Pack". CBS News. 2008-12-18. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
  3. 1 2 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j3yZbIqVv5nKFc6ZUSMoQVBuGYLgD95UGHL04

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