SAG Award Nominees Announced

The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees were announced by Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack (remember him from Will and Grace?) this morning at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood with Doubt leading the pack with five nominations.

Of course it does.  When we were watching that play on screen (because we refuse to call it a movie since it isn’t one), we kept thinking, “This is just actor masturbation.” Meryl Streep pulling a Pacino, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams emoting all over the place, Viola Davis with her snotty nose (seriously, we almost gagged watching her lick her lips which were wet with mucus), the whole thing screams, “Acting Master Class!!!”

Heath Ledger secured another nomination and presumed win for his role in The Dark Knight, Kate Winslet locked down two nods for both Revolutionary Road and The Reader and this year’s Lifetime Achievement award will be given to James Earl Jones, the best voice in the business.

See below for a complete list of nominees.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role:
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role:
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role:
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture:
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:
Ralph Fiennes - Bernard And Doris
Paul Giamatti - John Adams
Kevin Spacey - Recount
Kiefer Sutherland - 24: Redemption
Tom Wilkinson - John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:
Laura Dern - Recount
Laura Linney - John Adams
Shirley MacLaine - Coco Chanel
Phylicia Rashad - A Raisin In The Sun
Susan Sarandon - Bernard And Doris

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series:
Michael C. Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House
William Shatner - Boston Legal
James Spader - Boston Legal

Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor in a Drama Series:
Sally Field - Brothers + Sisters
Mariska Hargitay - Law + Order: Special Victims Unit
Holly Hunter - Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss - Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series:
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carell - The Office
David Duchovny - Californication
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Tony Shalhoub - Monk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series:
Christina Applegate - Samantha Who?
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds
Tracey Ullman - Tracey Ullman's State Of The Union

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series:
Boston Legal
Dexter
House
Mad Men
The Closer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series:
30 Rock
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

Screen Actors Guild's 45th Life Achievement Award
James Earl Jones.