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What makes the Screen Actors Guild Awards a standout?

It's the selection process - whereby the 'in club' of actors in Hollywood and television nominate other actors for best performances of the year.

This year, expect the official roster of nominees to be named on Thursday, December 17, 2009.

The winners of 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be announced live from Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles on January 31, 2010. simulcast on TNT and TBS Television.

Meanwhile, around the Web, check out a cache of pictures, slideshows, red carpet photos, facts, info and a bit of history & trivia on the SAG Awards with a complete list of 2009 Screen Actors Guild Award nominees & winners for film and television ...

SAG Awards Official Web Site - The focus on official Screen Actors Guild members, with details on nominating categories, submissions and timelines, press kits and current news.

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Screen Actors Guild - Wikipedia - The complete hyperlinked history covering the union's original Masquer's Club members in 1925 to it's official founding in 1933, along with issues and controversies, current awards categories, history and trivia, related links.

2009 Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees & * Winners

FILM

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
* Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
* Sean Penn, Milk
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
* Meryl Streep, Doubt
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
* Heath Ledger, Dark Knight
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
* Kate Winslet, The Reader
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Hensen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
* Hugh Laurie, House
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
William Shatner, Boston Legal
James Spader, Boston Legal

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
* Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order Special Victims Unit
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Elizabeth Moss, Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
* Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
Tony Shaloub, Monk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
* Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Tracy Ullman, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
* Mad Men
Boston Legal
Dexter
House
The Closer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
* 30 Rock
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
* Paul Giamatti, John Adams
Ralph Fiennes, Bernard and Doris
Kevin Spacey, Recount
Kiefer Sutherland, 24:Redemption
Tom Wilkinson, John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
* Laura Linney, John Adams
Laura Dern, Recount
Shirley MacLaine, Coco Chanel
Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
Susan Sarandon, Bernard and Doris

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