World
CONTACTStaffCAREER OPPORTUNITIESADVERTISE WITH USPRIVACY POLICYPRIVACY PREFERENCESTERMS OF USELEGAL NOTICE
© 2024 Pride Publishing Inc.
All Rights reserved
All Rights reserved
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
Chicago, Six Feet Under, Matthew Shepard Story honored at SAG Awards
Chicago dazzles at SAG Awards
Chicago burned up the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, winning the prize for best ensemble work by a cast and awards for best actress and best supporting actress.
Can the Chicago fire be put out? The film musical, adapted from the 1975 Broadway show, burned up the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, winning the prize for best ensemble work by a cast and awards for best actress and best supporting actress just two weeks before Hollywood's big show goes on--the Oscars. The awards for best actress and best supporting actress went to a pair of high-kicking homicidal hoofers played by Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
If ever there was a hot show two weeks in the countdown to the Oscars, it is Chicago, having also recently won the top awards from the Directors and Producers guilds. But backstage, the cast of the hit musical refused to talk about their Oscar chances. Said Zellweger: "I don't know, I don't know from the process...but we sure are having a good time tonight." Zellweger, who portrays killer would-be showgirl Roxie Hart, won the best actress award, beating out early favorite Nicole Kidman, whose character in The Hours commits suicide in the first minutes of the film. A heavily pregnant Zeta-Jones, who plays a dancer done wrong, won the best supporting actress award and said her main concern at the Oscars will be finding a pair of shoes and a dress that fit.
British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, who, after taking five years off from making films, played a criminal mastermind in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, was named best actor. Given that the night was about celebration, a possible war with Iraq was pushed to the back burner, and when asked by reporters backstage how a possible war might affect the Oscars, Day-Lewis seemed to have mixed feelings. "Undoubtedly it will be [affected]," he said. "I think people will be fearful, I think people will be thoughtful, a lot of people will be extremely sad.... It will be affected, but who knows how."
Political comments were few and far between, but Stockard Channing, who won the award for best female performance in a TV movie or miniseries for her work as Judy Shepard in The Matthew Shepard Story, took a swipe at President Bush. Channing, who plays the first lady on The West Wing, was asked backstage what conversation she would have with President Bush. "No conversation," she said. "He is a president who doesn't listen to anybody."
Christopher Walken, best known for his over-the-top, sometimes foaming-at-the-mouth performances, won the best supporting actor award for his restrained work as Leonardo DiCaprio's father in Catch Me If You Can. "A reviewer said I was playing a human being for once," Walken said after winning.
Chicago has been sweeping the pre-Oscar ballots, indicating that it may be impossible to stop at the Academy Awards on March 23, where it leads the pack with 13 nominations.
The gay-inclusive drama series about a family of undertakers, HBO's Six Feet Under, was given the cast award for best drama series, and James Gandolfini, who plays the mob boss Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, was given the award for best actor in a drama series. Gandolfini encouraged struggling actors to keep working and keep auditioning because, he said, it takes only one break to make it big. But, he added, "enjoy what you can now, because things get pretty weird once it works." He was referring to his lawsuit seeking release from the popular HBO popular drama, which many have seen as a ploy to increase his pay in order to return for a fifth season. He thanked HBO and said he was sorry if the publicity over his suit made him seem ungrateful. Backstage he said, "I am sure everything will be fine," and when asked by a reporter how much he wanted to be with the show, he hemmed and hawed and finally smiled sheepishly, saying, "You know." Edie Falco, who plays his wife on the series, was named best actress in a drama series. Asked if she thought the show could go on without him, she said, "I don't want to be there without him."
The TV comedy ensemble winner was CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond. For a second consecutive year, TV comedy performer trophies went to costars Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes of NBC's Will & Grace.
Want more breaking equality news & trending entertainment stories?
Check out our NEW 24/7 streaming service: the Advocate Channel!
Download the Advocate Channel App for your mobile phone and your favorite streaming device!
From our Sponsors
Most Popular
Here Are Our 2024 Election Predictions. Will They Come True?
November 07 2023 1:46 PM
17 Celebs Who Are Out & Proud of Their Trans & Nonbinary Kids
November 30 2023 10:41 AM
Here Are the 15 Most LGBTQ-Friendly Cities in the U.S.
November 01 2023 5:09 PM
Which State Is the Queerest? These Are the States With the Most LGBTQ+ People
December 11 2023 10:00 AM
These 27 Senate Hearing Room Gay Sex Jokes Are Truly Exquisite
December 17 2023 3:33 PM
30 Steamy Photos of Folsom Street Fair 2023 Debauchery
October 15 2023 11:06 PM
10 Cheeky and Homoerotic Photos From Bob Mizer's Nude Films
November 18 2023 10:05 PM
42 Flaming Hot Photos From 2024's Australian Firefighters Calendar
November 10 2023 6:08 PM
These Are the 5 States With the Smallest Percentage of LGBTQ+ People
December 13 2023 9:15 AM
Here are the 15 gayest travel destinations in the world: report
March 26 2024 9:23 AM
Watch Now: Advocate Channel
Trending Stories & News
For more news and videos on advocatechannel.com, click here.
Trending Stories & News
For more news and videos on advocatechannel.com, click here.
Latest Stories
'Florida has a First Amendment problem' — judge rules trans teacher can use 'Ms.'
April 10 2024 6:33 PM
Here's why soccer fans are booing USWNT player Korbin Albert
April 10 2024 6:26 PM
Trans and nonbinary migrants file complaint over treatment at ICE detention facility
April 10 2024 6:00 PM
X likely profited from promoted post calling for LGBTQ+ death penalty
April 10 2024 3:11 PM
Giselle Byrd is taking center stage — and helping others do the same
April 10 2024 2:15 PM
How Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter advances equality
April 10 2024 1:39 PM
The North Face faces conservative boycott for sponsoring a queer summer camp (exclusive)
April 10 2024 8:26 AM