Complete List: Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees 2008

The 15th annual SAG Awards air on January 25, 2009. Below, a list of this year’s nominees. 

Film Nominees:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role: Richard Jenkins (“The Visitor”), Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon”), Sean Penn (“Milk”), Brad Pitt (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) and Mickey Rourke (“The Wrestler”).

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: Anne Hathaway (“Rachel Getting Married”), Angelina Jolie (“Changeling”), Melissa Leo (“Frozen River”), Meryl Streep (“Doubt”) and Kate Winslet (“Revolutionary Road”).

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role: Josh Brolin (“Milk”), Robert Downey Jr. (“Tropic Thunder”), Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Doubt”), Heath Ledger (“The Dark Knight”) and Dev Patel (“Slumdog Millionaire”).

Outstanding by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Amy Adams (“Doubt”), Penelope Cruz (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), Viola Davis (“Doubt”), Taraji P. Henson (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) and Kate Winslet (“The Reader”).

Outstanding Performance by a Cast: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Doubt,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Television Nominees:

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series: “Boston Legal,” “The Closer,” “Dexter,” “House” and “Mad Men.”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Entourage,” “The Office” and “Weeds.”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series: Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Hugh Laurie (“House”), William Shatner (“Boston Legal”) and James Spader (“Boston Legal”).

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series: Sally Field (“Brothers and Sisters”), Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Holly Hunter (“Saving Grace”), Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”) and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”).

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”), Steve Carell (“The Office”), David Duchovny (“Californication”), Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) and Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”).

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Comedy Series: Christina Applegate (“Samantha Who?”), America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Tina Fey (“30 Rock”) Mary-Louise Parker (“Weeds”) and Tracey Ullman (“Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union”).

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Ralph Fiennes (“Bernard and Doris”), Paul Giamatti (“John Adams”), Kevin Spacey (“Recount”), Keifer Sutherland (“24: Redemption”) and Tom Wilkinson (“John Adams”).

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie Or Miniseries: Laura Dern (“Recount”), Laura Linney (“John Adams”), Shirley MacLaine “Coco Chanel”), Phylicia Rashad (“A Raisin in the Sun”) and Susan Sarandon (“Bernard and Doris”).

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