Slumdog nabs more awards love

Slumdog Millionaire is continuing to scoop up awards faster than the treasury loses money.

This weekend alone, Danny Boyle’s latest picked up not only the top gong from the Producers Guild Awards and Ensemble cast at the Screen Actors Guild bash.

Seann Penn was the actors’ choice for his role in Milk, while Meryl Streep took Best Actress for Doubt. Supporting Awards went to the expected Heath Ledger and – adding to the confusion about whether it’s a lead role or not – Kate Winslet for The Reader.

Stunt Ensemble


The Dark Knight took one other award from the SAG voters- Stunt Ensemble, which seems like an odd award, but thoroughly deserved given how much of the film’s set pieces were pulled off for real.

SAG AWARDS
Actor
Sean Penn - Milk

Actress
Meryl Streep - Doubt

Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Supporting Actress
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Ensemble Cast
Slumdog Millionaire

Stunt Ensemble
The Dark Knight

PGA AWARDS

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award Theatrical Motion Pictures

Slumdog Millionaire
Christian Colson

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Wall-E
Jim Morris

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Man on Wire
Simon Chinn

[Source: Variety ]


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