The Screen Actors Guild Awards, which aired on TNT and TBS on Jan. 27, are considered by many to be the precursors to the Academy Awards. Winning a SAG is a great honor, a boost to one’s a career and often a portent of an upcoming Oscar Win. Here’s how the stars of television and film did at the SAGs this year:
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
WINNER: "Argo"
- "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- "Les Misérables"
- "Lincoln"
- "Silver Linings Playbook"
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"
- Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
- John Hawkes - "The Sessions"
- Hugh Jackman - "Les Misérables"
- Denzel Washington - "Flight"
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER: Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
- Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"
- Marion Cotillard - "Rust and Bone"
- Helen Mirren - "Hitchcock"
- Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"
- Alan Arkin - "Argo"
- Javier Bardem - "Skyfall"
- Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook"
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Anne Hathaway - "Les Misérables"
- Sally Field - "Lincoln"
- Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"
- Nicole Kidman - "The Paperboy"
- Maggie Smith - "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
WINNER: "Modern Family"
- "30 Rock"
- ”The Big Bang Theory"
- "Glee"
- "Nurse Jackie"
- "The Office"
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
WINNER: "Downton Abbey"
- "Boardwalk Empire"
- "Breaking Bad"
- "Homeland"
- "Mad Men"
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Alec Baldwin - "30 Rock"
- Ty Burrell - "Modern Family"
- Louis C.K. - "Louie"
- Jim Parsons - "The Big Bang Theory"
- Eric Stonestreet - "Modern Family"
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Tina Fey - "30 Rock"
- Edie Falco - "Nurse Jackie"
- Amy Poehler - "Parks and Recreation"
- Sofía Vergara - "Modern Family"
- Betty White - "Hot in Cleveland"
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
WINNER: Bryan Cranston - "Breaking Bad"
- Steve Buscemi - "Boardwalk Empire"
- Jeff Daniels - "The Newsroom"
- Jon Hamm - "Mad Men"
- Damian Lewis - "Homeland"
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
WINNER: Claire Danes - "Homeland"
- Michelle Dockery - "Downton Abbey"
- Jessica Lange - "American Horror Story: Asylum"
- Maggie Smith - "Downton Abbey"
- Julianna Margulies - "The Good Wife"
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
WINNER: Kevin Costner - "Hatfields & McCoys"
- Woody Harrelson - "Game Change"
- Ed Harris - "Game Change"
- Clive Owen - "Hemingway & Gellhorn"
- Bill Paxton - "Hatfields & McCoys"
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
WINNER: Julianne Moore - "Game Change"
- Nicole Kidman - "Hemingway & Gellhorn"
- Charlotte Rampling - "Restless"
- Sigourney Weaver - "Political Animals"
- Alfre Woodard - "Steel Magnolias"
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