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