16th Screen Actors Guild Awards

by thesecards

One of awards season's most prestigious nights, SAG exclusively honors actors. It's an awards ceremony for actors, voted on by actors. Covering TV and film, awards are given in only 15 categories. This year's awards were 90% predictable, 10% awesome. "Inglourious Basterds" and "Mad Men" took top ensemble honors, while Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin of "30 Rock," Michael C. Hall of "Dexter" and Julianna Margulies of "The Good Wife" took home individual awards for TV, and Jeff Bridges of "Crazy Heart," Sandra Bullock of "The Blind Side," Christoph Waltz of "Inglourious Basterds" and Mo'Nique of "Precious" took the individual awards for film. As for the fashion, the stars must've been feeling patriotic because red, white and blue were the prevalent colors on the carpet tonight. Specifically, structured white dresses and cobalt blue. Even the men got in on the color fun and blue themselves . When a gown is so structured on the top, yet short in length, it makes the wearer look top heavy, and that's what's happening hear with Marion Cotillard . I appreciate the attempt to fill out the bottom with that feathered embellishment, but it's not enough. And I hate the hips of the dress that give her an unnatural-looking shape (but not unnatural enough to be obviously structured). Jenna Ushkowitz of "Glee" in a simple medium blue dress with an embellished waistline. By the way, I find it ironic that the Globes didn't throw up some tents over its rain-drenched red carpet, but the SAG Awards spared no expense to tent the entire carpet, only for the sun to shine down on it (the first break in Los Angeles' stormy weather in a week!) Coming off her Golden Globe win last week (for which she wore a lovely, eye-catching gown ), "The United States of Tara" star Toni Collette exhibited an interesting choice in dresses. Even had it stopped at the first tier, I still don't think this would have worked. The natural color and material against the bright yellow and blue jeweled...

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