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15th Screen Actors Guild Awards

The 15th Annual SAG Awards ceremonies for the year 2008 were presented on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. It was broadcasted live simultaneously by TNT and TBS.

The nominees were announced on December 18, 2008 by Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack at Los Angeles Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater.

“The Dark Knight” won the most film awards in which it was nominated. “Doubt” received the highest number of nominations among the film categories with five, four for individual performances and one for ensemble performance. “Boston Legal,” “30 Rock,” “John Adams,” “Mad Men” and “The Closer” received the most nominations with three each in the television categories. The biggest winner was “30 Rock,” which won in all categories it was nominated.

Winners and nominees

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Winner: Sean Penn / Milk

Nominees:

Brad Pitt / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke / The Wrestler

Richard Jenkins / The Visitor

Frank Langella / Frost/Nixon

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Winner: Meryl Streep / Doubt

Nominees:

Angelina Jolie / Changeling

Melissa Leo / Frozen River

Kate Winslet / Revolutionary Road

Anne Hathaway / Rachel Getting Married

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner: Heath Ledger / The Dark Knight (posthumous)

Nominees:

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

Winner: Kate Winslet / The Reader

Nominees:

Amy Adams / Doubt

Viola Davis / Doubt

Taraji P. Henson / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Penelope Cruz / Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

Winner: Slumdog Millionaire / Azharuddin Muhammad Ismail, Irfan Khan, Rubina Ali, Tanay Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Anil Kapoor, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Madhur Mittal, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto

Nominees:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Doubt

Frost/Nixon

Milk

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble

Winner: The Dark Knight

Nominees:

Wanted

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Iron Man

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Television

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Winner: Hugh Laurie / House

Nominees:

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

Winner: Sally Field / Brothers & Sisters

Nominees:

Mariska Hargitay / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Holly Hunter / Saving Grace

Elisabeth Moss / Mad Men

Kyra Sedgwick / The Closer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Winner: Alec Baldwin / 30 Rock

Nominees:

Steve Carell / The Office

David Duchovny / Californication

Jeremy Piven / Entourage

Tony Shalhoub / Monk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Winner: Tina Fey / 30 Rock

Nominees:

Christina Applegate / Samantha Who?

America Ferrera / Ugly Betty

Mary-Louise Parker / Weeds

Tracey Ullman / Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

Winner: Paul Giamatti / John Adams

Nominees:

Tom Wilkinson / John Adams

Kevin Spacey / Recount

Kiefer Sutherland / 24: Redemption

Ralph Fiennes / Bernard and Doris

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

Winner: Laura Linney / John Adams

Nominees:

Laura Dern / Recount

Shirley MacLaine / Coco Chanel

Phylicia Rashad / A Raisin in the Sun

Susan Sarandon / Bernard and Doris

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Winner: Mad Men / Bryan Batt, Alison Brie, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, Aaron Hart, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Mark Moses, Elisabeth Moss, Kiernan Shipka, John Slattery, Rich Sommer, Aaron Staton

Nominees:

Boston Legal

Dexter

House

The Closer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Winner: 30 Rock / Scott Adsit, Alec Baldwin, Katrina Bowden, Tina Fey, Judah Friedlander, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Tracy Morgan, Maulik Pancholy, Keith Powell

Nominees:

Desperate Housewives

Entourage

The Office

Weeds

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

Winner: Heroes

Nominees:

Friday Night Lights

Prison Break

The Closer

The Unit

Life Achievement Award

James Earl Jones

In Memoriam

Those honored in the "In Memoriam" montage (in order of appearance)

Charlton Heston

Ivan Dixon

Kim Chan

Don S. Davis

Majel Barrett

David Groh

Stanley Kamel

Harvey Korman

Edie Adams

Paul Scofield

Mel Ferrer

Sam Bottoms

Cyd Charisse

Robert Prosky

Robert DoQui

Don LaFontaine

Patrick McGoohan

Christopher Allport

Dick Martin

Paul Benedict

Gil Stratton

Beverly Garland

Sydney Pollack

Isaac Hayes

Evelyn Keyes

Barry Morse

John Phillip Law

Ruth Cohen

Ricardo Montalban

Augusta Dabney

George Furth

Van Johnson

Bernie Mac

Pat Hingle

Don Galloway

George Carlin

Richard Widmark

Estelle Getty

Bernie Hamilton

Roy Scheider

Eartha Kitt

Nina Foch

Paul Newman

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