The Screen Actors Guild Awards® were presented Sunday night and Fox Searchlight's THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE both received honors.
LKOS's Forest Whitaker won Best Actor and LMS won Best Ensemble.
Excerpts from Associated Press (by Christy Lemire) about LITTLE MISS's win in particular, below:
"Little Miss Sunshine" took the Screen Actors Guild's ensemble prize Sunday night, the group's equivalent of a best picture award...
Fox Searchlight's "Sunshine," the low-budget, road-trip charmer, came out of the Sundance Film Festival and bested bigger studio competition in "The Departed" (Warner Bros.), "The Queen" (Miramax), "Babel" (Paramount) and "Dreamgirls" (Dreamworks, Paramount).
The SAG win for "Little Miss Sunshine," coupled with its unexpected victory at the Producers Guild Awards, would seem to improve the film's prospects at the Oscars, where it's in the best-picture category with "Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima" (Warner Bros., Dreamworks) and "The Queen."
Three out of the past four years, the SAG ensemble winner has won at the Academy Awards _ "Crash," "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "Chicago." They don't usually line up, though, and they differed two years ago when SAG honored "Sideways" and the Academy Award went to "Million Dollar Baby."
Congratulations to all the winners. The excitement just doesn't seem to let up, does it?
