The annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Saturday, with television comedy “30 Rock” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” among the big winners of the evening.
“30 Rock” earned a Best Actor and Best Actress award for stars Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey respectively – Fey made a sly reference to NBC’s late night troubles by quipping “I just want to say to NBC – we are very happy with everything” – while “Basterds” took home both the award for Best Ensemble in a Film and Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Waltz.
In other categories, Julianna Margulies broke records by winning her seventh award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, this time for “The Good Wife”, while Michael C Hall won Best Actor in a Drama Series for his role as everyone’s favourite serial killer, “Dexter”. The awards for Best Drama Series and Best Comedy Series went to period drama “Mad Men” and freshman musical show “Glee” respectively. The Best Actor and Actress in film awards went to Jeff Bridges (for “The Crazy Heart”) and Sandra Bullock (for “The Blind Side”.) Bullock also made it to the stage to prevent the Lifetime Achievement Award to her “The Proposal” co-star, eighty eight year old Betty White, who was delighted with the honour and said she had no plans to leave acting. “Why should I retire from something I love doing?” she said to TV Guide. “You can’t get rid of me that way! It’s been 61 years. It doesn’t seem that long… How lucky can one person be?”
