12th Screen Actors Guild Awards

12th SAG Awards

January 29, 2006

----Best Cast - Motion Picture:
Crash ----Best Cast - Drama Series:
Lost ----Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Desperate Housewives

The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film and television acting achievement for the year 2005, took place on January 29, 2006 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, in Los Angeles, California. It was the 10th consecutive year the ceremony was held at the Center. The event was televised live by both TNT and TBS. It was the first ever year TBS televised the ceremony, while it was the 9th consecutive year that TNT had aired it. [cite web |url= http://www.sagawards.com/about_history.htm |title= A Brief History of the SAG Awards|accessdate=2007-08-22 |format= |work= ]

Among the contenders for the film awards "Brokeback Mountain" received the highest number of nominations with four. "Capote" and "Crash" received the second highest number with three each. No film however received more than one award. In the television categories the mini-series "Empire Falls" and the spin-off series "Boston Legal" led the nominees with four nominations each. "Desperate Housewives" was the only series which won more than one award, two in total.

The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award was presented to the former child actress Shirley Temple Black [cite web |url= http://www.sagawards.com/PR_060129.htm |title= 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Recipients|accessdate=2007-08-28 |format= |work= ]

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

*Russell Crowe - "Cinderella Man
* Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"
*Heath Ledger - "Brokeback Mountain
*Joaquin Phoenix - "Walk the Line
*David Strathairn - "Good Night, and Good Luck.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

*Judi Dench - "Mrs. Henderson Presents
*Felicity Huffman - "Transamerica
*Charlize Theron - "North Country
*Reese Witherspoon - "Walk the Line"
*Ziyi Zhang - "Memoirs of a Geisha

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

*Don Cheadle - "Crash
*George Clooney - "Syriana
*Matt Dillon - "Crash
* Paul Giamatti - "Cinderella Man"
*Jake Gyllenhaal - "Brokeback Mountain

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

*Amy Adams - "Junebug
*Catherine Keener - "Capote
*Frances McDormand - "North Country
* Rachel Weisz - "The Constant Gardener"
*Michelle Williams - "Brokeback Mountain

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

* "Brokeback Mountain"
* "Capote"
* "Crash"
**Chris Bridges
**Sandra Bullock
**Don Cheadle
**Matt Dillon
**Jennifer Esposito
**William Fichtner
**Brendan Fraser
**Terrence Howard
**Thandie Newton
**Ryan Phillippe
**Larenz Tate
* "Good Night, and Good Luck.
* "Hustle & Flow

Television

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

*Kenneth Branagh - "Warm Springs"
*Ted Danson - "Knights of the South Bronx"
*Ed Harris - "Empire Falls"
*"'Paul Newman - "Empire Falls"
*Christopher Plummer - "Our Fathers"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

*Tonantzin Carmelo - "Into The West"
*"'S. Epatha Merkerson - "Lackawanna Blues"
*Cynthia Nixon - "Warm Springs"
*Joanne Woodward - "Empire Falls"
*Robin Wright Penn - "Empire Falls"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

*Alan Alda - "The West Wing
*Patrick Dempsey - "Grey's Anatomy
*Hugh Laurie - "House
*Ian McShane - "Deadwood
*Kiefer Sutherland - "24"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

*Patricia Arquette - "Medium"
*Geena Davis - "Commander In Chief"
*Mariska Hargitay - ""
*"'Sandra Oh - "Grey's Anatomy"
*Kyra Sedgwick - "The Closer"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

*Larry David - "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
*"'Sean Hayes - "Will & Grace"
*Jason Lee - "My Name Is Earl"
*William Shatner - "Boston Legal"
*James Spader - "Boston Legal"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

*Candice Bergen - "Boston Legal"
*Patricia Heaton - "Everybody Loves Raymond"
*"'Felicity Huffman - "Desperate Housewives"
*Megan Mullally - "Will & Grace"
*Mary-Louise Parker - "Weeds"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

* "Grey's Anatomy"
* "Lost"
**Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
**Naveen Andrews
**Emilie de Ravin
**Matthew Fox
**Jorge Garcia
**Maggie Grace
**Josh Holloway
**Malcolm David Kelley
**Daniel Dae Kim
**Yunjin Kim
**Evangeline Lilly
**Dominic Monaghan
**Terry O'Quinn
**Harold Perrineau
**Michelle Rodriguez
**Ian Somerhalder
**Cynthia Watros
* "Six Feet Under"
* "The Closer"
* "The West Wing"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

* "Arrested Development"
* "Boston Legal"
* "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
* "Desperate Housewives"
**Roger Bart
**Andrea Bowen
**Mehcad Brooks
**Ricardo Antonio Chavira
**Marcia Cross
**Steven Culp
**James Denton
**Teri Hatcher
**Felicity Huffman
**Brent Kinsman
**Shane Kinsman
**Eva Longoria
**Mark Moses
**Doug Savant
**Nicolette Sheridan
**Brenda Strong
**Alfre Woodard
* "Everybody Loves Raymond"
* "My Name Is Earl"

Life Achievement Award

*Screen Actors Guild Awards 42nd Annual Life Achievement Award:
**Shirley Temple Black

References

External links

* [http://www.digitalhit.com/sag/12/photos DigitalHit.com 12th Annual SAG Awards Photos]