2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards Live Blog: Winners and Commentary

Here you go.

[5:53:31 PM] Laremy says: I like this new page. It’s very fancy.

[5:54:55 PM] Brad says: Only one hour to go and I am happy.

[5:57:18 PM] Laremy says: One hour to go and I’ve asked Brad to make coffee. Calling in the big guns.

[5:58:55 PM] Laremy says: Bridesmaids presentation time! Get some.

[6:00:34 PM] Brad says: The Bridesmaids ladies are finally entertaining us as they introduce Bridesmaids as one of the Best Ensemble nominees. Melissa McCarthy is drinking any time someone says “Scorsese” and of course Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph are obliging regularly as McCarthy chugs from a bottle of vodka.

[6:00:35 PM] Laremy says: Is almost as if having actors who are proficient in improv makes your show funnier. Hmmm, can we build on that?

[6:02:09 PM] Brad says: Dick Van Dyke is getting a standing ovation. He can’t read the teleprompter so he’s breaking out the glasses to announce Mary Tyler Moore as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

[6:03:39 PM] Brad says: He’s still telling us how great MTM is.

[6:04:38 PM] Brad says: Now that SAG and AFTRA are merging what will these awards be called next year? What will the Guild be called? Questions need to be answered.

[6:09:04 PM] Laremy says: Mary Tyler Moore really has achieved quite a lot!

[6:11:43 PM] Brad says: Have they ever played off a Lifetime Achievement Award winner? Mary Tyler Moore seems to have tempted them. Dicky V gave her a smooch and told her to move along though and now we go to commercial.

[6:12:28 PM] Laremy says: The new guild will be called SAFTRAGRON. Really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

[6:16:27 PM] Laremy says: The craziest thing about “The Mentalist” is how long that guy must take to style his bouffant.

[6:16:57 PM] Brad says: Judy Greer and Ed Helms will now tell us the winner of Best Actress for TV Drama.

[6:18:30 PM] Brad says: I’m going with Jessica Lange.

6:18:43 PM: And the winner for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series is Jessica Lange (“American Horror Story”)

[6:18:52 PM] Brad says: My mentalist abilities are back!

[6:20:20 PM] Laremy says: FX gets a win! Now, can we get “The League” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” some props?

[6:21:28 PM] Brad says: Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin will now tell us The Artist is a Best Ensemble nominee.

[6:23:00 PM] Brad says: John Krasinski is quoting something and now Tina Fey quotes Kathy Lee Gifford saying something about drag queens before announcing Best Actor in a TV Drama Series.

[6:24:14 PM] Brad says: I’m going with Buscemi, though Bryan Cranston could take it.

6:24:24 PM: And the winner for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series is Steve Buscemi (“Boardwalk Empire”)

[6:24:37 PM] Brad says: This is just too easy.

[6:25:03 PM] Laremy says: Nice win for Steve Buscemi. I’m a “Boardwalk Empire” guy. Very nice.

[6:25:37 PM] Laremy says: Tina Fey just drank Steve Buscemi’s wine! You have to love Tina Fey, she’s an all-timer.

[6:26:54 PM] Brad says: Did Steve Buscemi just spoil who gets killed on season two of “Boardwalk Empire”? I haven’t seen it yet! Thanks!

[6:29:44 PM] Brad says: With 30 minutes to go we hit the In Memoriam moment. Lots of big names.

[6:31:44 PM] Laremy says: So only the Leads and Ensemble left, right?

[6:35:04 PM] Laremy says: I wonder what kind of audience The Pro Bowl draws. How many people have cats who’ve accidentally turned their TV on?

[6:35:27 PM] Brad says: The cast of TNT’s “Dallas” is out now and I’m not going to even bother with the names.

[6:36:01 PM] Brad says: They are handing out the award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series.

[6:37:29 PM] Brad says: I will go with “Boardwalk Empire”.

6:37:59 PM: And the winner for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series is “Boardwalk Empire”

[6:38:32 PM] Brad says: Why don’t they just give the TV awards to everyone that won last year in all the categories before the show? Where’s the suspense?

[6:39:08 PM] Brad says: Steve Buscemi is throwing the kids from the show around… pretty good.

[6:39:15 PM] Laremy says: I feel like this show is going to run long. Which is NOT in my contact.

[6:41:26 PM] Brad says: Hey now! All that’s left are movie awards as Kathy Bates and Owen Wilson announce Midnight in Paris as one of the Best Ensemble nominees.

[6:41:50 PM] Brad says: Natalie Portman dressed in red is out to present Best Actor. Get ready Clooney.

[6:43:18 PM] Laremy says: Can Dujardin pick up some momentum here?

6:43:37 PM: And the winner for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role is Jean Dujardin (The Artist)

[6:43:44 PM] Laremy says: Yep!

[6:43:59 PM] Brad says: Wowsers! Upset city! Does this mean The Artist takes ensemble?

[6:44:35 PM] Laremy says: The Artist is now a mortal lock for Best Picture. So get out there and find a sucker to bet you!

[6:44:47 PM] Brad says: Is Oscar next for Dujardin?

[6:46:16 PM] Brad says: Only two awards to go… Will The Artist beat The Help? Will Streep beat Davis? Oh, the drama, I can’t handle it… Laremy… hold me.

[6:47:54 PM] Brad says: FACT: George Clooney has never won a SAG award for an individual performance, only ensemble for “ER”.

[6:50:28 PM] Laremy says: Just got done holding Brad. It was nice.

[6:50:52 PM] Brad says: Feel much better now.

[6:51:16 PM] Laremy says: “Dallas” is coming back? Are they planning on running any ads about that topic?

[6:51:30 PM] Brad says: Ben Kingsley is our next presenter to tell us the winner for Best Actress, which is to say whether it will be Streep or Davis for the win. Who yah got?

[6:51:38 PM] Laremy says: This has got to be Viola Davis. Unless it’s Meryl Streep.

6:53:17 PM: And the winner for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role is Viola Davis (The Help)

[6:55:59 PM] Brad says: So now Brad Pitt will hand out the award for Best Ensemble to The Help… right?

[6:56:04 PM] Laremy says: The Help should win this, but Dujardin has me wondering.

6:56:37 PM: And the winner for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture is The Help

[6:57:01 PM] Brad says: And that’s all she wrote folks.

[6:59:20 PM] Laremy says: I’m officially out of jokes.

See you on Feb. 26 for The Academy Awards, you bring the coffee.

[7:00:25 PM] Brad says: And there it is folks. The Help takes three awards, The Artist takes one and Beginners takes one.

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