Off the Carpet: How to look at what the guilds and BAFTA Awards have told us

Posted by · 1:35 pm · February 8th, 2015

With guilds and the British Academy speaking up in this year’s Oscar race, things feel spread as thin as ever. Or do they? How to read the tea leaves left by the industry roll-out…

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2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards – Live Blog

Posted by · 3:15 pm · January 25th, 2015

Follow along with the Screen Actors Guild Awards as Hollywood’s thespians honor their own.

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2015 SAG Awards winners and nominees

Posted by · 3:14 pm · January 25th, 2015

The Screen Actors Guild handed out the 21st annual SAG Awards Sunday night live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

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Roundup: Harvey pledges to strip back violence in movies

Posted by · 6:00 am · January 21st, 2014

In today’s roundup of notable online news and views, Harvey Weinstein promises to do his part to curb sensationalized violence on the big screen, Emma Thompson may be the real winner of the SAG Awards and David O. Russell gets called out for faking it.

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Best and Worst of the 2014 SAG Awards

Posted by · 7:50 pm · January 18th, 2014

The 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have come and gone and so it’s time for another round of best and worst. What were the touching, heartfelt, funny and endearing moments of the evening? What were the cringe-worthy, false-note, unfortunate moments? Some of Team HitFix has a few ideas.

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'American Hustle' and acting Oscar frontrunners win SAG Awards

Posted by · 6:12 pm · January 18th, 2014

“American Hustle,” Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong’o won awards tonight at the 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Are they all set up for a crash course with Oscar?

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2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards winners – complete list

Posted by · 4:03 pm · January 18th, 2014

The 20th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were be held Saturday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Kudos were dished in an array of acting categories, for stars of both film and television.

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Oscar Talk: 'Hustle,' 'Wall Street,' precursors and the 10 best films of 2013

Posted by · 11:00 am · December 13th, 2013

In the latest installment of Oscar Talk, Kris and Anne discuss the final films to screen of the season, the end-of-year precursor circuit that includes critics groups, the HFPA and SAG and their own kudos list: the top 10 films of 2013.

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News Update: '12 Years' and 'Dallas' SAG Awards nominations winners

Posted by · 11:48 am · December 11th, 2013

HitFix’s Daniel Fienberg and Gregory Ellwood discuss the 2014 theatrical motion picture SAG Awards nominees.

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SAG Awards nominee reactions: Jennifer Lawrence, Kerry Washington, Jared Leto

Posted by · 9:54 am · December 11th, 2013

Jennifer Lawrence, Kerry Washington, Tom hanks, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench and more weigh in on their 2014 Screen Actor’s Guild nominations.

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SAG winners and losers: 'Breaking Bad,' 'Saving Mr. Banks,' Mariah Carey

Posted by · 9:24 am · December 11th, 2013

I’ve offered my take on this morning’s SAG Awards announcement and Guy has given his thoughts on snubs and surprises on the film side. The nominations brought with them a number of winners and losers in both the worlds of film and television, however, so to which side of the line did your favorites fall? Team HitFix offers thoughts on who’s happy and who’s sad now that the actors have had their say.

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Redford snubbed and 'Dallas' gets a boost in otherwise unsurprising SAG announcement

Posted by · 6:04 am · December 11th, 2013

This morning’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations announcement wasn’t going to have a lot of surprises. At this stage, most of the players are known. It’s a dense race, however, so the only question was, who was going to get squeezed out?

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2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees – complete list

Posted by · 4:49 am · December 11th, 2013

The Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for the 2014 SAG Awards today and the nominees included “Breaking Bad,” “12 Years A Slave,” Jennifer Lawrence, “August: Osage County,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, “Game of Thrones” and more.

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SAG nomination predictions: Who will make the cut?

Posted by · 5:24 pm · December 10th, 2013

Tomorrow’s Screen Actors Guild nominations mark the most significant Oscar bellwether of the season thus far — so which actors should be feeling confident? Greg Ellwood, Guy Lodge and Kristopher Tapley offer their predictions in each category.

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Roundup: On Leonardo DiCaprio's odd Oscar history

Posted by · 6:49 am · January 15th, 2013

Also: The genius of Jodie Foster’s speech, and the oldest living Oscar nominees

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Sony Classics co-chief Michael Barker remains positive on Oscar chances for 'Amour'

Posted by · 10:01 am · December 13th, 2012

He draws a line between Michael Haneke’s career now and Ingmar Bergman’s in 1973.

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The Long Shot: Categorically speaking

Posted by · 7:22 pm · December 12th, 2012

The leading-supporting divide is blurrier than ever in this year’s Oscar race

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Some SAG surprises indicate unexpected currents in the season

Posted by · 5:57 am · December 12th, 2012

The awards-obsessive corners of the web were all abuzz this morning with murmurs of a supposed “leak” of the 19th annual SAG nominees. Intrepid net hounds had apparently gone into the guild’s website and done some choice searching to turn out what ended up being, indeed, the full list of nominees. So what were they and what do they mean?

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