SAG Awards 7

[cleolinda]

Please welcome Kate Hudson in... wow, I'm not even sure I can describe this one. Also Matthew McConaughey, who is totally stroking her back where (theoretically) no one can see. Male lead actor! Huh, Daniel Day-Lewis is sitting at the Jolie-Pitt table. Ryan Gosling is scruffy casual. I had slight hopes after Viggo Mortensen's clip, and then I remembered: Daniel Day-Lewis, duh. He's so polite and soft-spoken and Irish British (British-Irish? Born English, naturalized Irish? I'm so confused), I'm always so surprised to hear him speak after seeing movies like Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood, or even Last of the Mohicans ("STAY ALIVE! I WILL FIND YOU!!!!1!"). Aww, he mentions that Heath Ledger gave him a sense of wonder (huge applause) in Monster's Ball--you see now why I mentioned the DDL clip of him talking about Ledger and getting weepy last week. Because I am clairvoyant. "And of course, in Brokeback Mountain, he was unique, he was perfect." More applause. Aww, Cate Blanchett is teary in the audience. He finishes by dedicating the award to Ledger, who--as he said in the clip last week--he had never met. Aww.

Forest Whitaker, here for female lead actor. Aww, Cate Blanchett is still choked up. Marion Cotillard is sparkly, right up to her hair. Ellen Page is very simple and classy in black. And, in the one really open race of the year, Julie Christie wins. Big cheers when she reaches the podium; she looks great in a black suit and open-collar white blouse. Also: UNION! UNION! Aww, she says "The one who this award really belongs to is the divine Sarah"--wait, Bernhardt?--"the divine Sarah Polley, our writer and director. And if I've forgotten anybody, well... it's just that I'm still in character."

Ladies and gentlemen! CRAZY TOM CRUISE! He looks very subdued. I mean, very. Very sad eyes, for some reason. No nonsense, very quick. It's actually more disturbing than if he'd cartwheeled out there. I wonder if all the Anonymous group attacks have meant a sleepless weekend at the COS. Best ensemble: No Country for Old Men. Big cheers. Josh Brolin informs us that "this is Javier Bardem's 497th award. It's very sad... for the rest of us." Also: "The studio system is backfiring awfully, and it's fun for us actors." Also-also: "The Coen brothers are freaky little people, and we made a freaky little movie... whether you liked the ending or not." Huge laugh/cheer for the audience. And Disturbingly Sober Tom Cruise takes us out to the credits.

ETA: The awards run again at 10 pm (CST)--basically, there's an hour of something else between airings, so it'll start up again in about half an hour.

Comments

[xblackrose666x.livejournal.com]

I totally thought she was talking about Sarah Bernhardt too.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

He looks very subdued. I mean, very. Very sad eyes, for some reason.

Well, obviously everybody calling him a great big loon is hurting his poor wee feelings. Aw. Perhaps we should stop now.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I heard somewhere that Scientology could make depressed people feel better. He should get on that.

(okay, that was cold.)

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Nah, it was funny. :D

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

OMG! i didn't know these were on!!!!!!!

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I don't actually GET this channel, so I'm following the Awards through your journal, and I could just picture DDL saying all this, and I got teary.

This is insane. Even when he's himself this man brings out all kinds of emotion in me. He's too talented to be human!

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

There must be a dozen YouTube uploads now. If you still haven't seen it, search on "Daniel Day Lewis SAG" or spell out "Screen Actors Guild" or replace all the stuff about the SAG with "Heath Ledger" -- it'll come up.

<3 for Dan for like half my life now! I'm glad I haven't been wrong. :)

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, I saw that since I posted my comment last night!! But thanks for letting me know anyway!

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

He's so polite and soft-spoken and Irish,

He's actually English, but he's self-loathing about it and had himself made a naturalized Irish citizen, so he'd probably take that as a compliment.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, I don't know how I missed that. And his father being a famous poet, too.

[jasonbeast.livejournal.com]

Sarah Polley's pretty awesome. Hope she gets more recognition in the US for more of the stuff she's doing.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

CTC is probably afraid to laugh, after all those parodies.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

Thank you for doing this! I forgot it was on.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

I love you Daniel Day Lewis. I love you so hard.

*promptly puts up There Will Be Blood mini-poster*

[maliekai.livejournal.com]

What station is airing it? I can't find it anywhere on my channels in ol' Canadia, but I might just not be looking in the right spot.

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

I can't find it here either and I'm in Oregon. !

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Do you get TBS or TNT? IT's apparently the two channels airing it in the US.

(Am Canadian too, and I couldn't find it, but if you're one of those people with 129329348 channels, you might get lucky!)

[maliekai.livejournal.com]

TBS, you say? Hrrmmmm...

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

THERE it is! Thanks!

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

TNT here in America.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Aw, Daniel Day-Lewis is my hero. He speaks from the heart, with no artifice. I've loved him for years (since the double threat of My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View in 1986), but I really love him now.

Re Cruise: Poor sad unmasked loon.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Cleo, did you see the video of Viggo singing a Bob Dylan song at "The People Speak"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO1lzVG8vY

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Sorry about your neck crick, Cleo, but thanks for doing this. The Commenters have been fun (and informative), too.

::loves Julie Christie, long time now::

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

Aww...thanks for doing this, Cleo! I didn't know how much I missed award season until it wasn't there! Your recaps are always the fun way to play along at home, too.

I don't know what the heck was up with Kate Hudson's dress. I found a zoomed in picture of the top and it looked like a hand-beaded pair of wings in silvers and gray. I really can admire the beadwork, but why oh why did someone pair it with grandma's old curtains instead of something sleek and silver...? I can't wait to see what the FugGirls have to say :D

One other thing you might find of interest: I was so inspired by your digital scrapbooking creations that I've gotten a bit, er, obsessively into it myself now. I made a digiscrapping resource post at my blog. You might be collecting links to do a digiscrapping linkspam yourself for all I know, but I thought my little resource post might be of interest to your readership. If you are interested, here is the direct link you can feel free to post: http://entropy-and-me.livejournal.com/50051.html

Hope your neck is feeling less crinky by the time you get this! :D

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, lovely lovely Julie Christie. Wish I'd seen that.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

Julie Christie totally killed it (in a good way) at the end of her speech with that awesome quip about her still being in character if she forgot to thank someone! That was cool!