What had looked like a predictable Academy Awards season grew more intriguing with a few surprise winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
February 8, 2006 (Press Release) --
'Crash' crashes SAG awards
By David Germain
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — What had looked like a predictable Academy Awards season grew more intriguing with a few surprise winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The ensemble drama "Crash" beat out Oscar best-picture front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" Sunday for the overall cast honor, the guild's equivalent of a best-film prize.
Reese Witherspoon as singer June Carter in "Walk the Line" won best actress over her fellow Golden Globe winner and presumed Oscar favorite Felicity Huffman of the road-trip tale "Transamerica."
Paul Giamatti of the boxing drama "Cinderella Man" earned the guild's supporting-actor honor over George Clooney of the oil-industry thriller "Syriana."
The guild's other film prizes were more predictable. Philip Seymour Hoffman took the best-actor prize for his role as author Truman Capote in "Capote," and Rachel Weisz earned the supporting-actress honor for the murder thriller "The Constant Gardener," in which she plays a rabble-rousing humanitarian-aid worker.
Hoffman and Weisz, who also won Golden Globes for their roles, have now established themselves as the actors to beat at this year's Academy Awards. Oscar nominees will be announced today, with the awards presented March 5.
By David Germain
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — What had looked like a predictable Academy Awards season grew more intriguing with a few surprise winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The ensemble drama "Crash" beat out Oscar best-picture front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" Sunday for the overall cast honor, the guild's equivalent of a best-film prize.
Reese Witherspoon as singer June Carter in "Walk the Line" won best actress over her fellow Golden Globe winner and presumed Oscar favorite Felicity Huffman of the road-trip tale "Transamerica."
Paul Giamatti of the boxing drama "Cinderella Man" earned the guild's supporting-actor honor over George Clooney of the oil-industry thriller "Syriana."
The guild's other film prizes were more predictable. Philip Seymour Hoffman took the best-actor prize for his role as author Truman Capote in "Capote," and Rachel Weisz earned the supporting-actress honor for the murder thriller "The Constant Gardener," in which she plays a rabble-rousing humanitarian-aid worker.
Hoffman and Weisz, who also won Golden Globes for their roles, have now established themselves as the actors to beat at this year's Academy Awards. Oscar nominees will be announced today, with the awards presented March 5.
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