Watch: The SAG Award Winners Acceptance Speeches

Thanks to SAG, we have the video and transcripts of all of the acceptance speeches from last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

My favorites of the night were Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis. Both were great and hopefully this puts them as front runners in the Academy Awards.

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18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Winners

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
JEAN DUJARDIN / George – “THE ARTIST” (The Weinstein Company)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
VIOLA DAVIS / Aibileen Clark – “THE HELP” (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Hal – “BEGINNERS” (Focus Features)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
OCTAVIA SPENCER / Minny Jackson – “THE HELP” (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
THE HELP (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)
JESSICA CHASTAIN / Celia Foote
VIOLA DAVIS / Aibileen Clark
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD / Hilly Holbrook
ALLISON JANNEY / Charlotte Phelan
CHRIS LOWELL / Stuart Whitworth
AHNA O’REILLY / Elizabeth Leefolt
SISSY SPACEK / Missus Walters
OCTAVIA SPENCER / Minny Jackson
MARY STEENBURGEN / Elaine Stein
EMMA STONE / Skeeter Phelan
CICELY TYSON / Constantine Jefferson
MIKE VOGEL / Johnny Foote
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George Clooney to Appear on ‘Inside the Actors Studio’

Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio returns for its 18th season with George Clooney. 

In the two-hour season premiere, Clooney discusses his life from his early days as Dr. Doug Ross on ER to his recently acclaimed role as Matt King in The Descendants, for which he has just received an Oscar® nomination.

When talking about The Descendants, he said to host James Lipton that, “I enjoyed the fact that I was allowed to dip my toe into an area that I am very uncomfortable with.”

He also talks about  Batman Returns – “Coming off of [Batman Returns] I suddenly realized I was going to have to pick better projects” – and committing adultery…. in second grade. “I thought it meant acting like an adult, I didn’t know what the hell it meant,” he said.

The show airs on Tuesday, January 31 at 7pm et/pt.

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Harold Perrineau on Voicing ‘Blade’ Anime: “I tried to have as much physicality when I was on the mic as I could so he didn’t sound static”

The 1998 film Blade, starring action hero Wesley Snipes, really jump started the run of successful blockbusters based on Marvel Comics superhero characters that is still going strong today.  Two sequels, a short-lived television series, and an anime followed, with the the anime airing U.S. television on G4. 

Following in the footsteps of Snipes, Blade is voiced in the American version of the anime by Harold Perrineau, best known for his roles in movies like Romeo + Juliet and The Matrix trilogy and television shows like Oz and Lost.  Perrineau talked about voicing the half-vampire to MTV, and pointed out that just because it’s an animated role it doesn’t mean he doesn’t act.

Just because he’s voicing an animated character doesn’t mean Perrineau can’t get into the role.  Perrineau went to unusual lengths to get into character, confessing, “It was really, really physical in the booth.  He’s fighting and moving and jumping and all this stuff, so I tried to have as much physicality when I was on the mic as I could so he didn’t sound static. But when he is static, that’s when I fill it with as much emotion as I could. Hopefully in my voice you hear whatever anguish or angst is happening with the character at the moment.”  Read more

Katherine Heigl on Returning to ‘Grey’s Anatomy’: “I’m down with it if they want me to”

Since leaving Grey’s Anatomy two years ago, Katherine Heigl has certainly kept busy with her film career. However, on Monday’s installment on daytime talk show The View, the 33-year-old actress admitted to missing being a part of ABC’s hit medical drama.

“I miss my friends,” Heigl told co-host Barbara Walters. “It was a great work environment in that we all got along really well, and it becomes a family. I spent six years with these people every day. We grew up in a way.”

Heigl left Grey’s Anatomy in January 2010 in order to focus on her family and her budding film career. Since then, she’s starred in box-office hits like New Year’s Eve and Killers, and her latest, action comedy One for the Money, arrives in theaters this Friday, January 27. Still, she says she would be opening to reprising her role of Dr. Izzie Stevens on Grey’s, which is currently in the middle of its eighth season.  Read more

Rob Lowe Talks About Playing a Twice-Accused Murderer, Drew Peterson: “I have to at least recognize his distinct worldview”

Though Rob Lowe might not be the guy to go to for sports news with his recent tweets about Peyton Manning retiring proving to be inaccurate, the forty-seven year old actor has been a hard-working actor since the early 1980s. But Lowe might have taken on the most difficult role of his career in the Lifetime movie Untouchable: The Drew Peterson Story, a movie about the true story of a man accused of killing both his third and fourth wife.  Lowe explains to the Los Angeles Times what appealed to him about playing such an unlikable person who he doesn’t look similar to.

In order to look more like Peterson, Lowe had to undergo a body transformation sometimes taking up to six hours.  He was given a fake mustache and grey hair, along with a heavier gut. Lowe admits that part of the attraction of the part was to go through such a transformation.  He says, “That for me — the transformation — is what I always aspired to do.  To be able to do characters on such wide edges of the spectrum. That is definitely the case right now.”  Read more

Jon Heder Talks ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and How Mormonism Plays a Role in His Career

In a recent interview with New York Magazine, Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder talked about why he never became a household name after playing the lead in the 2004 underdog comedy.

“I enjoy success and I certainly want the projects I did to do well, but I realized how happy I am trying to be somewhat normal without becoming huge,” said the 34-year-old actor, whose Mormonism also plays a role in determining which offers he turns down.

“I did get a lot of offers, especially back (in the mid-2000s), of stuff that I’m not comfortable with. A lot of the projects just seemed too raunchy… I’ve never been interested in doing those kinds of projects,” he said.

Since arriving on Hollywood’s radar seven years ago, Heder has starred in several high-profile movies, including The Benchwarmers, School for Scoundrels and Blades of Glory.

However, none of those films has defined his career quite like Napoleon Dynamite, a quirky indie comedy about an awkward high-schooler in a dead-end Idaho town. In fact, the role continues to follow him around — he’s lending his voice to an animated FOX series based on the film, which premiered last week.  Read more

‘Downton Abbey’ Actor Dan Stevens: “I didn’t study acting – I learned on the job by watching”

The sophomore season of PBS’ Downton Abbey is now under way with the cast successfully engaging fans once again, even after a slew of early negative reviews hit the web. 

The time period series’ most appealing characteristics comes from it’s believable jump back in time, as well as Abbey’s interesting set, and of course plenty of amazing actors such as actor Dan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley.

For the unknown, Stevens’ alter ego is an attractive lawyer who ends up the designated heir of the late Hugh Bonneville’s country estate.  His wet t-shirt scenes while chopping wood, enough to make the most poised and proper of fans blush, was also a plus for the breakout star, who didn’t imagine himself ever playing a hero.

The twenty-nine year old shared in an interview with The Columbus Dispatch that “it’s fun to play that, but I never saw myself like that. It makes me smile.”  Admitting that he still sees himself “as a gangly 17-year-old, trying to work everything out.”  Read more

Tina Fey Photobombs Amy Poehler at the Golden Globes

Here is yet another reason I love Tina Fey.

At last night’s Golden Globe Awards, Fey and fellow Best Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical Award nominee Amy Poehler were sitting at the same table. When it was time for the announcement of the winner, the camera focused on Poehler and Boom!

She was handed a Fey Photobomb!

Thanks to The Daily Grace for this.

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2012 Golden Globes Winners: ‘The Descendants’ and ‘The Artist’ Come Out On Top

The Golden Globes are usually the best awards show to watch, mostly because the people in the audience are drinking up a storm. This one though didn’t seem as fun as years past. 

There were some good moments – George Clooney‘s acceptance speech was a highlight as was Morgan Freeman‘s award for lifetime achievement. 

I also didn’t think Ricky Gervais was as funny as last year. Maybe he held back a bit because of all of the controversy he got?

The Artist took took home the Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical award while star Jean Dujardin got the statue for best acting.

The Descendants won for Best Motion Picture Drama and it’s star, George Clooney,  for best acting.

In TV, Modern Family won for Best Television Series Comedy or Musical while and Homeland got the drama award.

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