SAG Awards TV Winners: Who Took Home the Trophies?
Actors honored actors at last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, the latest ceremony in the ongoing season of statuettes. And though the event is getting the same buzz the Golden Globes got for highlighting diversity on the small screen, there wasn’t much overlap in the lists of winners for television categories. Here’s a look at which TV show stars brought home trophies (and what they had to say about it.)
Outstanding Performance By an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Winner: Downton Abbey
What They Said: The group passed the statue from person to person with peppy enthusiasm, thanking casting director, crew and viewers like you. “I want to thank the Downton Abbey cast for letting me come up with them,” said Allen Leech (Tom), who was sitting at another table with the cast from the movie The Imitation Game.
Other Nominees:
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
Homeland
House of Cards
Outstanding Performance By an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Winner: Orange Is the New Black
What They Said: Uzo Aduba did the talking, offering a “massive thank you” to series creator Jenji Kohan and Netflix as the camera slowly panned the massive cast crowding the stage.
Other Nominees:
The Big Bang Theory
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Modern Family
Veep
Outstanding Performance By a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Winner: Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
What They Said: Nothing, but only because he wasn’t there. (He had plenty to say earlier this month when he picked up the Golden Globe. Spacey was the only television honoree to win his category at both ceremonies.)
Other Nominees:
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Winner: Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
What She Said: Davis fought back tears thanking the show’s team “for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman, could be a 49-year-old, dark-skinned African American woman who looks like me.”
Other Nominees:
Claire Danes, Homeland
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Outstanding Performance By a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Winner: William H. Macy, Shameless
What He Said: “To my fellow nominees … ah, forget it, you lost.”
Other Nominees:
Ty Burrell, Modern Family,
Louis C.K., “Louie
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Winner: Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
What She Said: “I love you guys so desperately, so much,” she told her castmates.
Other Nominees
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Outstanding Performance By a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
What He Said: A no-show for the ceremony, he got his speech in via Twitter and Instagram
Special thank you to all my brother and sister actors for this incredible distinction. It’s really the one that matters. @SAGAwards
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) January 26, 2015
Other Nominees
Adrien Brody, Houdini
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: His Last Vow
Richard Jenkins, Olive Kitteridge
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo
Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Winner: Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge
What She Said: “I’m proclaiming: if you haven’t seen Olive Kitteridge, you need to. You can stream it — I don’t know how. You can watch it on an intercontinental flight, I’ve been told.”
Other Nominees:
Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
MORE SAG AWARDS
- Backstage at SAG: While Movies Struggle with Diversity, TV Makes Great Strides
- Photos: Best Dressed on the Red Carpet
- Actors Say: How I Got My SAG-AFTRA Card
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