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Monday, 29 January 2007

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Helen Mirren picks up two Screen Actors Guild Awards

More gongs for playing two queens

At the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jennifer Hudson and Helen Mirren added to their trophy collections, while a few first-time winners were clearly surprised – and grateful.

A Golden Globe winner who's getting used to standing at the podium, Dreamgirls' best supporting actress Hudson thanked the Screen Actors Guild for "noticing little old me."

Accepting for best ensemble in a TV drama, Grey's Anatomy's Ellen Pompeo said, "It's worth mentioning the members of our cast who aren't here." After naming Isaiah Washington, she begged her castmates: "I'm drawing a blank, please help me!" (Washington, who's in rehab, also got a shout-out from best actress in TV drama winner Chandra Wilson.)

A visibly moved best film actor winner Forest Whitaker (for Last King of Scotland) said, "Everybody tells me not to get carried away, 'cause I get carried away sometimes, but whatever. I'm really happy to receive this award."

Surprising no one, Helen Mirren took her second trophy (known as an Actor) of the evening, for The Queen. But she admitted that when she first signed on to play H.R.H., "I saw those sensible shoes and tweed skirts laid out in a row, and I cried." She had first won for Elizabeth I.

When road-trip comedy Little Miss Sunshine won for best cast in a motion picture, star Greg Kinnear joked, "I'd like to thank the engineers at Volkswagen for making such a beautiful vehicle back in 1969 that is so comfortable, so safe."