15th Screen Actors Guild Awards

Date: January 25, 2009

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Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 

• Sean Penn as Harvey Milk (Milk)

Richard Jenkins as Walter Vale (The Visitor)
Frank Langella as Richard Nixon (Frost/Nixon)
Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson (The Wrestler)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

• Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Doubt)

Anne Hathaway as Kym (Rachel Getting Married)
Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins (Changeling)
Melissa Leo as Ray Eddy (Frozen River)
Kate Winslet as April Wheeler (Revolutionary Road)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

• Heath Ledger as The Joker (The Dark Knight) (posthumous)

Josh Brolin as Dan White (Milk)
Robert Downey, Jr. as Kirk Lazarus (Tropic Thunder)
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn (Doubt)
Dev Patel as Jamal Malik (Slumdog Millionaire)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)

Amy Adams as Sister James (Doubt)
Penélope Cruz as María Elena (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller (Doubt)
Taraji P. Henson as Queenie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)


Outstanding Performance by a Cast

• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Doubt (2008)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Milk (2008)


Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble

• The Dark Knight (2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
Wanted (2008)

Television

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

• Paul Giamatti as John Adams (John Adams)

Ralph Fiennes as Bernard Lafferty (Bernard and Doris)
Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain (Recount)
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer (24: Redemption)
Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin (John Adams)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

• Laura Linney as Abigail Adams (John Adams)

Laura Dern as Katherine Harris (Recount)
Shirley MacLaine as Coco Chanel (Coco Chanel)
Phylicia Rashad as Lena Younger (A Raisin in the Sun)
Susan Sarandon as Doris Duke (Bernard and Doris)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Hugh Laurie as Gregory House (House)

Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
Jon Hamm as Don Draper (Mad Men)
William Shatner as Denny Crane (Boston Legal)
James Spader as Alan Shore (Boston Legal)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

• Sally Field as Nora Walker (Brothers & Sisters)

Mariska Hargitay as Det. Olivia Benson (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko (Saving Grace)
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
Kyra Sedgwick as Det. Brenda Leigh Johnson (The Closer)


Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)

Steve Carell as Michael Scott (The Office)
David Duchovny as Hank Moody (Californication )
Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold (Entourage)
Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk (Monk)


Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Tina Fey as Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

Christina Applegate as Samantha Newly (Samantha Who?)
America Ferrera as Betty Suarez (Ugly Betty)
Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin (Weeds)
Tracey Ullman as various characters (Tracey Ullman's State of the Union)


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

• Mad Men

Boston Legal
Dexter
House
The Closer


Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

• 30 Rock

Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Weeds


Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

• Heroes

Friday Night Lights
Prison Break
The Closer
The Unit


Screen Actors Guild 45th Annual Life Achievement Award

• James Earl Jones