“To me this has nothing to do with me, it has to do with the incredible people who were in this movie.”
Hathaway took the SAG award for female actor in a supporting role as the tragic Fantine in
Les Miserables.
Tommy Lee Jones won his first major award of the season for male supporting actor for Lincoln. Jones is also nominated for an Academy Award for supporting actor. The SAG movie wins offered a rare moment of clarity as the highly unpredictable awards season enters its final stretch, culminating with the Academy Awards on February 24.
A SAG win does not guarantee Oscar gold, but history suggests it’s nearly impossible to win an Academy Award in the acting categories without a SAG nomination.
On the television side of the awards ceremony, it was a three- peat night for Claire Danes, Julianne Moore, Kevin Costner and the sitcom Modern
Family. The performers made it a clean sweep by winning the Emmy, the Golden Globe and the SAG award. Danes won for female actor in a drama series for political thriller Homeland.
Moore’s uncanny performance as 2008 Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin in HBO’s Game Change earned her female actor in a television movie or miniseries. And Costner nabbed male actor in a television movie or miniseries for History’s Hatfields & McCoys.
Modern Family, meanwhile, earned its third consecutive SAG award for ensemble in a comedy series. Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey earned a great parting gift when they won for their lead roles in a comedy series for 30 Rock.
Fey used the win to ask people to tune in for the series’ one- hour finale, opposite the highly rated CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. “Just tape The Big Bang Theory for once, for crying out loud!” Fey pleaded. Bryan Cranston won for male actor in a drama series for Breaking Bad. “It is so good to be bad,” purred Cranston as he picked up the honour. And Downton
Abbey won for ensemble in a drama series.
One highlight was a spry and chipper 87- yearold Dick Van Dyke, honoured for a career that has spanned nearly seven decades. Van Dyke was met with a standing ovation and cheers. “That does an old man a lot of good,” he said, grinning from ear to ear.
He was supposed to receive the life achievement honour from Carl Reiner, who created The
Dick Van Dyke Show, the show that turned Van Dyke into a TV legend. Because Reiner was sick with the flu, Baldwin did the honours.
“I’ve knocked around this business for 70 years, but I still haven’t figured out what exactly I do,” Van Dyke cracked during his acceptance speech. He noted that it was great to pick a career “full of surprises and a lot of fun” and one that does “not require growing up.”