SAG Awards liveblog #5

[cleolinda]

Ladies and gentlemen, Ernest Borgnine! A quintet of exceptional women! Grace and power and words with the wrong syllables emphasized! Bless. Female actor in a TV movie/miniseries! Wow, Laura Dern looks kind of scary as Katherine Harris. Oh, wait, this is the Laura Linney award, never mind. (Coco Chanel: The only character both Shirley Maclaine and Audrey Tautou will ever play.) "Oh! You wanna know who won! Would you believe--Laura Linney?" She was warned not to "fondle" the Actor statuette, so she pushes him gently over to the side of the podium. Hee. Lovely bright coral-colored dress; apparently my "Brighter colors won't wash you out!" brainwaves from the Globes reached her.

Amy Adams and Viola Davis from Doubt! What THE HELL is that THING on Amy Adam's dress? It's a great plum/burgundy/something color, a sheath dress, great fit, and then MALIGNANT GIFT BOW TUMOR. Who thinks these things are a good idea? I keep seeing them! I will never understand.

OH MY GOD IT GOT MARISA TOMEI, TOO! Great peach colored dress, GIANT SHOULDER PARASITE. Male actor in a TV movie/miniseries! Ralph Fiennes smiles into the camera, happy and mellow. I don't know what he's drinking, but I want some. Paul Giamatti wins, but cannot be here. Marisa Tomei's carnivorous bow is happy to accept.

Susan Sarandon in simple black with--oh God, the Annual Death March of Deathly Death. HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE UNTIL THE END. As many as I can catch: Charlton Heston, Ivan Dixon, Kim Chan, Don S. Davis, Majel Barrett, David Groh, Stanley Kamel, Harvey Korman (cheer), Edie Adams, Paul Scofield, Mel Ferrer, Sam Bottoms, Cyd Charisse (big cheer), Robert Prosky, Robert Doqui, Don LaFontaine, Patrick McGoohan, Christopher Allport, Dick Martin, Paul Benedict, Gil Stratton, Beverly Garland, Sydney Pollack (huge cheer), Isaac Hayes, Evelyn Keyes, Barry Morse, John Philip Law, Ruth Cohen, Ricardo Montalban, Augusta Dabney, George Furth, Van Johnson, Bernie Mac (cheer), Pat Hingle, Don Galloway, George Carlin (cheer), Richard Widmark, Estelle Getty, Bernie Hamilton, Roy Schieder, Eartha Kitt, Nina Foch, Paul Newman (huge cheer).

(No one holds their applause until the end.)

Comments

[syustat71605.livejournal.com]

Don LaFontaine.... movie trailers will never be the same :(

[anthraxpretzels.livejournal.com]

IN A WORLD...


[chokes up] ;_;

[runa27.livejournal.com]

Don't remind meeeee! ;_;

I never expected to feel sad for Movie Trailer Guy dying. Goddamn. I think I am permanently hormonal now... yes, that's it. That's totally it! Right??? I mean it's not like... whole chunks of my childhood and/or people whom I admire for making the world what it is today are just like, going going gone... or... anything...

*realizes that she can't make "from my cold, dead hands" jokes anymore without feeling kind of awful*

*bawls*

[dragonsblog.livejournal.com]

I had no idea some of those people died, and thus gasped loudly and cried "noooooo!" in an utterly theatrical and silly manner.

Susan Sarandon looked like she was going to bust out of that dress. I was quite distracted by the cleavage. Like really distracted. I'm slightly disturbed about how distracted I was. o.O

[notemily.livejournal.com]

My mom was like "I think she wants to call some of these people back from the grave with her cleavage." That was... something, all right.

I got kind of choked up about the guy from Stargate: SG-1 dying. And I don't even watch that show regularly.

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting it's just been over a year since Ledger died. I keep waiting for him to appear on the In Memoriam reels. I think I expect him to be kept on those reels for years.

Tumor bows are a mystery I'll never understand. My roommate is a fashion major, and she doesn't understand them either.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I feel like he's the first actor I've actually wept over dying. Even when my favorite - K. Hepburn - died, I didn't cry. But I was teary like mad when Ledger died. I think it's because I was totally expecting him to keep entertaining me until we both got old and gray. And he wasn't much older than my self.

[sirinde.livejournal.com]

I know! Since getting into my late twenties, I've realized that I get to watch these people age and mature, and (some of them anyway) become better actors, and I was kinda enjoying that idea about Heath Ledger. He seemed like he'd continue to be interesting (and lets face it, good looking) for a long time.

Is that shallow?

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I totally felt the same! And it's not shallow at all. He was a good looking guy - that really can't be denied.

[syustat71605.livejournal.com]

by the way, can you tell that I have nothing better to do tonight than to sit here and keep hitting refresh?

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

I always forget Gary Oldman is British.

And in other news, still crying.

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

Me too. ;__;

[alittlesting.livejournal.com]

What was the music played over the Annual Death March of Deathly Death? It sounded so familiar!

[kushielsavatr.livejournal.com]

*delurks*

Re: MALIGNANT GIFT BOW TUMOR & GIANT SHOULDER PARASITE

Perhaps we overlook the contribution that Cloverfield and its monster made in inspiring the fashion industry?

[michawhiplash.livejournal.com]

Did they forget Heath? I didn't see him... or was he in last year's?

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Last year's. He died right before the cut off for this and the Oscars.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Ralph Fiennes smiles into the camera, happy and mellow.

I'll cast aside my insane attraction for that man - unprotected sex in planes hasn't diminished it in the least, to my eternal shame - for a (quick) moment, and point out that I feel quite sorry for him. I mean, award shows are only as important as you make them out to be, and all that, but he's basically the male Kate Winslet: he keeps putting out consistently good performances, if not necessarily in the best vehicles, he's universally lauded as a great actor, keeps getting nominated for stuff, and never wins an award. When was the last time he actually won something?

... I mean, even SHE's getting her long-overdue awards this year; to be fair, he's been around roughly since she was born. *mild exageration, but still*

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Actually, he did win a Tony. It was over ten years ago, but hey, he's got something. And hell, I'd rather have a Tony, anyway.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Oh, so would I (great minds, eh?), no doubt about that.

But still. Again, awards ultimately matter very little, but his own lack of them baffles me. He's good, respected, relatively popular, prolific on stage and screen, recent ~scandals~ haven't even scratched his reputation, he's even handsome enough that he'd look good holding an award, and still... I understand that he's no longer the hot young thing he once was, but even in weaker years for competition, he just gets disregarded. I'm still baffled that he got so little recognition for The Constant Gardener.

Oh, well. If he keeps showing up to these things, he must really not care at all - or else the booze must be really great - so it's not my place to care. I'm just... puzzled, I think is the word.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

He's in good company, though. There are a lot more great actors who never win anything than those who do.

If it were me, I'd want people to lament my lack of awards rather than bitch about it when I won something I didn't deserve.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Keeping company to Alfred Hitchcock will always be better than metaphorically standing beside Gwyneth Paltrow.

Though... It's only human nature (God knows I bitch a lot more than I should considering I actually care so little), but I feel it's a bit unfair to bitch at people who "undeservedly" win as though they personally snatched the award from the contenders' hands. I mean, lots of them - performers in particular - do campaign like mad for their statuettes, possibly pay for them, but they don't steal them from the worthier candidates. At the end of the day, if you're doing the best you can and juries see it fit to nominate you/award you, what are you going to do, apologise for getting attention?

Even in that notorious Gwyneth year (I know I was rooting for Fernanda Montenegro), she won because she was more popular/her PR machine was better/the voters were out of their minds, but it's not like she personally put a gun to the Academy's collective head...

/rant (sorry!)

[runa27.livejournal.com]

...I dunno about whatever it was she won for in whatever year, but I saw Paltrow in Iron Man and liked her, so I don't think she's a bad actress or anything, personally.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

She won against Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth. Cate was heavily favored to win...and it's widely believed she totally should have. Her performance was pretty damn explosive and fantastic. Harvey Weinstein and Miramax got Gwen her Oscar. Not her performance.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

She won in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love, and as I recall, it was a strong year for the acting category - Cate Blanchett was up for Elizabeth, and so on - and the controversy has not died since. :)

I don't dislike her. In interviews she comes off as that breed of extremely privileged person who honestly believes her lifestyle is the norm, which is a bit annoying, but she seems genuinely nice, and she was charming as Emma

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm still baffled that he got so little recognition for The Constant Gardener.

Okay, I never understood that either. I love Rachel Weisz, and I think she deserved the awards, but I thought he was even better than she was.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Isn't it insane? I feel like they were 2005's (?) Frost/Nixon; two good characters and two great performances, but Rachel's, like Michael Sheen's this year, was flashier, and showcased her skills more clearly, whereas Ralph's, like Frank Langella's, was understated and sort of simmered under the surface (I'm not being judgemental about which is superior here, I honestly think all four were great). The big difference is that this year Langella is actually getting recognition for his part, whereas Ralph got none. Woe!

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

In other news, I would have thought Charlton Heston would have got at least a mild cheer (and apparently he didn't?) I know he was getting unpopular towards the end, but he was, in all fairness, one of the "greats" that Hollywood prides itself on so very much.

*quietly cheers for Charlton Heston*

[runa27.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, I feel strange living in a world without Charlton Heston in it. I mean, people my age generally grew UP making fun of the guy and watching The Ten Commandments every Easter. It's... it's almost like having William Shatner die, you just feel like it's impossible to have a world before or after he exists.

Oh God, tell me I didn't jinx us! :O

[ellerigbee.livejournal.com]

it's almost like having William Shatner die, you just feel like it's impossible to have a world before or after he exists

I know most people--even half-hearted trekkies like me--take the mickey out of Shatner and his priceline commericals, but I honestly just teared up at the idea that one day, there will be no more William Shatner (and though I feel like a total tool for even thinking it, my world will be a little smaller without him).

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Hee, I don't think you did.

I feel that way about a few stars as well - and I'm not necessarily even a fan of theirs. I like Frank Sinatra's music much more now than I did when he passed away, but I distincly recall feeling that something that shifted in the world with his death that should not have shifted. It's strange when strangers become part of your perception of the world this way...

(it's just weird, you, if there wasn't an audible cheer for Heston. He was as great a figure of the establishment as Paul Newman, possiblybigger.)

[runa27.livejournal.com]

Hell yes. I felt that same "something that shouldn't have shifted, shifted" feeling when I learned Isaac Asimov was not only dead, but had been dead since April of 1992. I did not discover this until 2005-2007ish. I had been into his stories since high school, and his essays since freshman year of college. I found out he'd been dead for over 10 years from Wikipedia of all things. My reaction was D: and it took me a good year or so to stop feeling like the world was somehow just wrong.

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

MALIGNANT GIFT BOW TUMOR!

GIANT SHOULDER PARASITE!

This is why it is far more entertaining to read your blog than watch the show.

[runa27.livejournal.com]

THIS. :D

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

The one thing that stood out for me in the Death March of Deathly Death? That clip of Paul Newman shirtless in The Long Hot Summer. It turns my brain to mush every time I see it. Yowza, was he one scorchingly hot man. He's almost too beautiful to even LOOK at in that scene.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know Don S. Davis died! Apparently it happened in June, which means I am very low on the uptake. He was so cuddly. I loved him. :(

[runa27.livejournal.com]

That name sounded ridiculously familiar, with some sort of positive association, so I Googled it, wondering where on Earth I'd seen or heard it before...

...and then I realized it was from the opening credits of Stargate: SG-1 that I saw it.

And I am honestly struggling to hold in a real-life Big No. D:

He's not old enough to randomly die on us! He was too awesome to die! Noooooooooooooooooooooo.Noooo. ;_; Nonono! It's not fair!

General Hammond, sir, the world will not be the same without you. :'(

[runa27.livejournal.com]

OMg, they killed off his character on Atlantis afterwards! And then named a spaceship after him in the finale! :O

...

*bawwwwwwwwwls*

[apocalyptically.livejournal.com]

OMG, I didn't even know Stanley Kamel died! :( I haven't watched Monk in a while.

[runa27.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! Monk's psychiatrist is dead!

WTF, that seems so random! :( And he was such a good actor! I loved his character so much.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

What what what? I didn't know HALF of those people were dead.

:'(

[punzerel.livejournal.com]

Aw, now I'm reminded about Paul Newman and I'm sad.

[redbird57.livejournal.com]

I'm now kinda glad I forgot this was on. *Is now crying again for Roy Schieder*