Over the last few weeks, we’ve got the feeling that Ang Lee has been constructing a giant warehouse to store all the awards that Brokeback Mountain has won. But there’ll be a small gap where the SAG award should have gone.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards took place last night and, as you’d expect, it was full of the usual smug backslapping and "Who, me?" fake modesty. That’s not news – what’s (kind of) news is that Brokeback Mountain – the film that has made wanting to be a confused gay cowboy the new wanting to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle – didn’t win the SAG overall cast award. Instead, the award was taken by ‘hey, we’re all racist deep down so let’s all be friends’ movie Crash.
The nominations for the Oscars are announced tomorrow, so
commentators everywhere are busy scrabbling around looking at the
results of all the other movie awards to try and see what will take
Academy Awards home in March. So far, things are looking distinctly
Brokeback Mountain-coloured, after the film was given the nod by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Golden Globes and the Producers Guild Of America.
But the SAG awards thought differently. It picked Crash – a film
about how racist everybody probably is that stars roughly everyone in
the world – as the winner of the Overall Cast award, the equivalent of
the Best Film prize. Luckily for Brokeback Mountain, though, nobody
really listens to the SAG awards as it’s mainly just a bunch of
actors in a room trying desperately to convince themselves that there’s
more to their job than dressing up in funny clothes and pretending
stuff.
But Crash wasn’t the only SAG winner. Reese Witherspoon took home
the Best Lead Actress award, not for her hilarious role as a ghost
doctor in Just Like Heaven, but for playing Johnny Cash‘s wife in Walk
The Line. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Lead Actor for his role in Capote,
and the TV awards were predictably dominated by Desperate Housewives
and Lost. Terry O’Quinn – Locke from Lost, gave the speech of the night
as he described his co-stars as:
"the saddest collection of climbing, grasping, paranoid, back-stabbing,
screen-grabbing losers and schmoozers that you ever saw on your stage
in your life."
Read more:
Witherspoon, ‘Crash’ Win Top SAG Honors – ABC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Mr Ed says
Regarding actors that “dress up in funny clothes and pretend stuff”: It would seem that the back half of the horse, in this case writer Stuart Heritage, still finds his best dressed job is blowing smelly air. But then, if I were stuck behing a keyboard, most likely in bad underwear, instead of out glamming it up in Bev Hills and Hollywood, I might have a bit of intestinal resentment too, but then …. Naaaaaah
andy shaul says
im srry but brokeback should have one, but i kind of assumed it would go to crash. and jake gyllenhaal also should have one, so should have michelle williams..and im srry but my grandma can do a better CAPOTE impersination..IN HER SLEEP!! come on..everyone can pretend to talk like that…so heath or jaquin should have won!
Ron says
I can’t believe Crash was picked over Brokeback Mountain. Crash is an average, formulaic film, whereas Brokeback Mountain is a profound, beautiful story that rips your heart out and stomps on it. I don’t consider Crash to even be in the same league with BBM.
Jenn says
I agree with the above comment.. Brokeback should have won.. Heath,Jake, and Michelle should have won.. hopefully at the Oscars there will be a better outcome!!