In case you weren't watching the SAG awards last night, which means just about everybody, you missed that the overhyped, annointed movie "Brokeback Mountain" didn't win for best cast ensemble.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were loaded with A through D list celebrities from film and TV. This is the award show were actors choose to honor fellow actors, and they don't play politics in picking the most outstanding acting performances to acknowledge.
Top movie honors went to Phillip Seymour Hoffman who won the well-deserved best actor award for his most excellent performance as writer Truman Capote in "Capote", and Reese Witherspoon won as best actress for "Walk the Line." These two should be the odds-on favorites to win Oscars.
"Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" won acting honors for TV in ensemble performance in drama and comedy. Sandra Oh took home the best actress status in a TV drama for "Grey's Anatomy" while Kiefer Sutherland was named best actor in a dramatic series for "24". And Ian McShane is robbed again!
That's not news - what's (kind of) news is that "Brokeback Mountain" -a very good film about confused gay cowboys (for one thing, they're herd sheep not cows!) - didn't win the SAG overall cast award. Instead, the award was taken by the large cast of the best movie of the year: "Crash".
Best acceptance speech of the night was given by the always wonderful Sean Hayes who won best supporting actor in a comedy for his role as the gay guy in "Will & Grace." He said: "First of all, I would like to thank Ang Lee for taking a chance on me (lol) . .. I know everyone in Hollywood knows it's such a risk to play a gay character."
Oh, and Terry O'Quinn of "Lost" spoke for his fellow cast members in his thank you speech, then called them "the saddest collection of climbing, grasping, paranoid, back-stabbing, scene-stealing losers and schmoozers that you ever saw on your stage in your life."
Runner up: actress S. Epatha Merkerson of "Lackawanna Blues" thanking her divorce lawyers!
