The 2015 SAG Awards

For those of you that don't know, last Sunday (1/25/2015), The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) 21^st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) took place in LA. As usual, there was no host but just many, many presenters. Most presenters did a fine job except for a couple of stale ones in the mix. My favorite part, and possibly the most emotional part, was the in Memoriam tribute that was done around the middle of the show, although they added in a couple of bizarre names, for example Don Pardo. Sure he was the announcer for SNL from it's debut until May of last year, and I'm sad that he died, but I would not call him an actor. It was in fact a wise choice that they did Robin Williams Last (if the Academy's In Memoriam Tribute is not as good as SAG's, I'm going to be really upset). And there is one other thing I would like to mention regarding the ceremony (Is this just me? or does Matthew McConaughay have a beard? Leave a comment down below regarding that).

Now for the winners – I'm going to give the winners in the 6 movie categories. Best Actress in a supporting role went to Patricia Arquette for her work in BoyHood; definitely going to win an Oscar. Best actor in a supporting role went to J.K. Simmons for his work in Whiplash; also Oscar material. Best Actress went to Julianne Moore for her her work in Still Alice; another Oscar candidate. Now here is the most major upset: Eddie Redmayne winning best Actor for his work in The Theory of Everything over Michael Keaton in BIRDMAN. Now fans of Michael Keaton please don't get me wrong, he could still win an Oscar, but with Eddie Redmayne winning the SAG Award, Michael Keaton has a lower shot at winning an Ocsar. The most I can say right now is the category is going to be a very competitive one. Now for the biggest category of all, Best Picture; BIRDMAN won, which I am not surprised because if you remember my Award season nomination blog back in December, I predicted that BIRDMAN would sweep the SAG Awards, but it did not! With the only award that it won for Best Picture (if you are going to win one award this is the one to win) it has a good chance of winning the Oscars. I must say though that it does have some tough competition with BoyHood and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

I would like to clarify a few things; I am not listing the movies that I think deserve to win, I am predicting the movies that I feel will win. Just to let you know I am saying that all the winners here are poised to win an Oscar because, let's remember, at the Oscars the critics do not vote and the audience does not vote, but is is the people who are working in the movie industry who are able to vote. The Academy is about 4,000 members strong, and more than half are Actors and Actresses. Also a number of Actors in the Academy are also members of SAG. Award season has become very political these days because movie studios are actually campaigning to win Oscars; much like political campaigning. This is why you see all these all these Oscar nominees on Talk Shows right now (Now let's get out of the politics of Award season and move on to our final category). The final category is Best Special Effects Acting Ensemble (I didn't know there was such a thing); Unbroken received that Award. I would say that it's poised to win an Oscar, but it was not nominated. now I am going to say that Dawn of The Planet of The Apes are going to take that Oscar.

Thanks for joining me today or tonight depending on your time of reading this. Remember my end of the year poll is still open. Now as for my rating on the SAG awards I am going to give it 4 out of 5 stars. There was nothing particularly wrong with it. Thank you and good night and be happy.

By Mr Bee

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