SAG Awards: 'Argo,' 'Lincoln' stand tall

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="asset-metabar-wrap" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px 23px 70px;"><div class="asset-metabar" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: table-cell; margin: 20px 0px 0px; width: 888px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="float: left; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Brian Truitt, From: USA TODAY</span><span class="asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item " style="border-left-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: #999999; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">11:13a.m. EST January 28, 2013</span></div></div><div class="double-wide" itemprop="articleBody" role="main" style="color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative; width: 600px;"><h2 class="lead-in" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: -2px;">The Oscars race comes into sharper focus after Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards.</h2><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="DDL SAG" class="expand-img-vertical" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/27/xxx-sag-awards-day-lewis-jy-3_4_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 232px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">'Argo' wins outstanding cast, equivalent to Oscar's best picture</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Daniel Day-Lewis wins best actor for 'Lincoln'</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress for 'Silver Linings Playbook'</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If Anne Hathaway dreamed a dream of sweeping the major awards this season, it's coming true.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence were probably in it, too.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The trio of actors followed up their Golden Globe wins with honors at Sunday's 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which also saw Ben Affleck's<i>Argo</i> continue its own dream run toward next month's Academy Awards.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Day-Lewis was humble in accepting his male actor award for the starring role in <i>Lincoln</i>.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It was an actor who murdered Abraham Lincoln," he said. "And therefore it's only fitting that an actor tries every now and then to bring him back to life again.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Every single cast member gave their characters the kiss of life, and have no doubt, this is an ensemble award."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hathaway garnered a SAG for supporting female actor for her portrayal of a devoted mother in the musical <i>Les Miserables</i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I'm just thrilled I have dental," Hathaway joked after receiving the award and recalling how she got her SAG card at age 14. "It felt like the beginning of the world."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Silver Linings Playbook</i> star Jennifer Lawrence also had a big win leading up to the Oscar race — female actor.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This is incredible," she said. "Now I have this naked statue that means some of you even voted for me."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">While the Oscars and other awards ceremonies tend to be more all-encompassing in honoring the best of movies and TV, the SAG Awards are focused solely on acting — the trophy that's handed out is even called "The Actor."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Argo</i> won the SAG award for outstanding cast — the ceremony's equivalent to Oscars' best picture. With a win here after a Golden Globe and Producers Guild Award, <i>Argo</i> has quickly become a favorite this awards season.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I can't believe I'm standing in the same place where Daniel Day-Lewis was," said<i>Argo </i>star and director Ben Affleck just after Day-Lewis' acceptance speech. "I feel like I'm a better actor just from the radiation."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Tommy Lee Jones garnered a supporting-male-actor trophy for playing abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in <i>Lincoln</i>,</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">On the TV side, Bryan Cranston scored his first win for male actor in a drama for playing <i>Breaking Bad</i>'s drug kingpin, Walter White.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It's so good to be bad," he said, thanking series creator Vince Gilligan. "He wrote the role of my career, and I am so grateful to you, sir."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Claire Danes followed up her Globes win with a SAG award for female actor for<i>Homeland</i>, in which she stars as CIA analyst Carrie Mathison.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"They said when I got this role, I'd have a lot to do," Danes said, "which is the understatement of my career."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The PBS British hit <i>Downton Abbey</i> garnered the ensemble award for drama series. "We weren't expecting this! Shut the French windows, honestly," said Phyllis Logan, who plays housekeeper Mrs. Hughes.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In the comedy categories, <i>30 Rock</i> scored two wins with Alec Baldwin as male actor and Tina Fey as female actor.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This is ridiculous," said Baldwin after accepting his eighth award for playing Jack Donaghy. "This is the greatest experience I've ever had."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Fey thanked her cast as well as her friend and former <i>Saturday Night Live</i> cast member Amy Poehler. "I've stolen so many of your moves. I've known you since you were pregnant with Lena Dunham," she joked.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The comedian also made sure to plug 3<i>0 Rock</i>'s series finale after seven seasons on Thursday: "Just tape <i>The Big Bang Theory</i> once, for crying out loud!"</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Modern Family</i> won for best cast in a comedy, but Jesse Tyler Ferguson thanked the casts of <i>30 Rock</i> as well as<i> The Office</i>, which is also ending this season. "You all have set the comedy bar so high," he said. "All of us are indebted to you."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In the categories for TV miniseries or movie, Kevin Costner won leading male actor for<i>Hatfields & McCoys</i> and Julianne Moore nabbed female actor for playing Sarah Palin in HBO's <i>Game Change</i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This means so much coming from all the other actors who voted," Moore said, thanking most everyone in her cast. "I couldn't have asked for a better team."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Baldwin presented the SAG Life Achievement Award to Dick Van Dyke, who danced with penguins in <i>Mary Poppins</i>, drove a flying car in <i>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</i> and became a TV fixture with <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This does an old man a lot of good. This is just a thrill," Van Dyke said. "I've been knocking around this business for 70 years and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing. Isn't it great we chose a profession that involves not growing up?"</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Looking at his award, he concluded, "If this heavy object here lets me refer to you as my peers, I am a happy man."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><img alt="None" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/28/sags100-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083" /></div></div></div>

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Brian Truitt, From: USA TODAY 11:13a.m. EST January 28, 2013 The Oscars race comes into sharper focus after Sunday's Screen Actors Guild...

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