The SAG Award winners were announced on Saturday and the PGA Award winners were announced yesterday, and the results point to a potentially interesting Oscar race. This is good news to me because as cool as Avatar was visually, I really don't think it deserves to win Best Picture at the Oscars when there were so many more deserving candidates this year. Avatar was completely shut out of all the SAG award categories, which makes sense since they focus only on acting. Probably the biggest surprise from the SAGs was that Up in the Air wasn't even nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Cast category despite the three main leads, George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick getting nominated by pretty much every single award group. I guess it's because the cast pretty much ended with those three, although I enjoyed Jason Bateman as Clooney's and Kendrick's boss and Danny McBride as Clooney's future brother-in-law who gets cold feet before his wedding. I was very happy to see Inglourious Basterds win the Best Cast award at the SAGs as that was probably my favorite movie of 2009 and I was glad to see the entire cast get some recognition. Christoph Waltz continued his award season dominance by picking up the Best Supporting Actor award at the SAGs. In fact, the four major individual acting award winners were exactly the same as the Golden Globes as Mo'nique, Sandra Bullock, and Jeff Bridges all picked up yet another statuette.
As for the PGAs, they don't have acting awards becuase they focus on production, so they really only have three categories for film; Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and Best Documentary. The Hurt Locker took the top prize at the PGAs which means that now Avatar has some competition going into the Oscar race. Another interesting tidbit, is that Katherine Bigelow and James Cameron, both of whom are shoo-ins to be nominated in the Best Director category for the Oscars and whose films are now the front runners in the Best Picture race, were once married to each other briefly from 1989-1991 before getting divorced. I can't imagine anyone being married to James Cameron because he is so egotistical. I guess that's why he's been divorced four times and is now on wife number five. Anyway, I was very glad to see Inglourious Basterds and The Hurt Locker get some love as they were my two favorite movies of 2009. Here's hoping the Oscars continue the trend that the SAGs and the PGAs have started by continuing to honor these two fantastic films.
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