LITTLE MISS Wins SAG Award® for Best Ensemble

Thomas on January 29th, 2007

The Screen Actors Guild Awards® took place Sunday night and Fox Searchlight's LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE received top honors, for "Best Ensemble." (LKOS's Forest Whitaker also won, for "Best Actor.")

Excerpts from Associated Press (by Christy Lemire) about LITTLE MISS's win, 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."

Read the full article here.

The excitement just doesn't seem to let up, does it?

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Anonymous | January 31st, 2007 17:01

I WAS SOOOOO EXCITED! CONGRATS! I LOVE THIS FILM!

Anonymous | February 1st, 2007 19:02

A film should be like this!

Anonymous | February 18th, 2007 20:16

Fantastic movie. One normally gets tired of all the dysfuntional family situations we see in most movies these days, as movies attempt to mirror real life. Little Miss is wonderfuly whacked out enough to be truly refreshing. I thought I was going to die when Olive ripped off the velcro pants. Her innocence was clearly evident. All of grandpa's behind-the-curtain training came into immediate focus. Also love that soundtrack. What a treat.

Anonymous | February 28th, 2008 15:32

The better film of the year was Million Dollar Baby of course, Hilary is a wonderful actress and she worth all congratulations from averyone.
Million Dollar Baby is my favorite film, I never watched a film like this, WONDERFUL and EMOTIONAL.
I LOVE MILLION DOLLAR BABY....... is the BETTER FILM OF THE YEAR, OF THE WORLD, OF MY LIFE.
I'm Lohranne, a brazilan girl and I love Million Dollar Baby, yesterday, today and ALWAYSSS................

Anonymous | February 28th, 2008 15:44

I liked Little Miss Sunshine, but Million Dollar Baby it's better, when I watched the film I said: My God I'll hear........And the Oscar goes to........Million Dollar Baby and Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood, they're wonderful.
I really Love Million Dollar Baby.
When I was week I take the message of the film, be strong, no matter what happen.

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