Los Angeles: Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges continued their winning streak by grabbing the best actress and best actor award while Inglourious Basterds was named the best picture at the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
It was something of a deja vu evening on Saturday evening as most winners were repeats from the prior weekend's Golden Globe Awards, with both Bridges and Bullock again honored for their lead performances in Crazy Heart and The
Blind Side respectively.
Only the absence of Avatar in any of the categories kept the ceremony from completely forecasting how the Academy Awards might turn out in two months, MTV news online reported.
While James Cameron's blockbuster won the Golden Globe for Best Picture, the fact that it primarily features computer-generated characters made it unrecognized by the
acting guild.
The SAG equivalent of a Best Picture prize, given to the best cast in a motion picture, went instead to Quentin Tarantino's WW II drama Inglourious Basterds.
Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, again won best supporting actor for that film. Mo'Nique, also followed up her recent Golden Globe win with a SAG Award for her supporting performance in Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire.
As for the guild's television honors, Drew Barrymore ('Grey Gardens') followed her Golden Globe win with a SAG Award for best actress in a TV movie or miniseries.
Similarly, actor Kevin Bacon made a repeat win for best actor in a TV movie or miniseries for his performance in Taking Chance.
30 Rock stars Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey won awards for lead actor and lead actress in a comedy series, respectively, while new favorite 'Glee' took home the prize
for best ensemble performance.
Fey was the sole SAG winner who had not been honored at teh Globes. Drama series awards went to Julianna Margulies, best actress for The Good Wife; Michael C Hall, best actor for Dexter; and Mad Men for best ensemble.
Film and TV veteran Betty White, who appeared with Bullock in last year's comedy hit The Proposal, was honored with the guild's 46th annual lifetime achievement award.
Bullock introduced her recent co-star, recognizing her unlikely success over 60 years in an industry that isn't always kind to older actresses.
"Seventy-one years ago when I signed on to an experimental thing called television," White said of her career, "I never would have expected it to culminate in an
evening like this."
Implying that it might be premature for her to receive the lifetime-achievement award, she added, "I was only 88 last weekend, so I've got a lot more to do."
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