Stars flocked to the annual award ceremony for the Screen Actors Guild, which was granted a waiver by fellow unionists in the Writers Guild of America, who promised not to picket the show. The Golden Globes were canceled due to the writer’s strike, and the upcoming Oscars, scheduled for under a month away on February 24, are also likely to be scrapped. There are negotiations going on now, but it is not known if the strike will be amicably settled in time for the biggest Hollywood award ceremony of the year. For now we’ll have to settle with the SAG Awards, which were suitably star-studded and often predict the Oscar winners. Even if the Oscars have to be mailed in this year, we’ll still have the SAG Awards. This lighter awards schedule helps remind us how the people in the industry are suffering while we’re sitting back waiting for our favorite shows to come back or run out.

Top honors went to No Country for Old Men as best film cast, with Daniel Day Lewis winning best actor for his role as an oil prospector in There Will be Blood. Julie Christie took home the best actress award for Away From Her, in which she plays an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

The Screen Actors Guild gave its top 2008 Actor Awards to the cast of “No Country for Old Men, Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie.

In film, the Screen Actors Guild honored Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood,” Actress: Julie Christie, “Away From Her”, Supporting actor: Javier Bardem, “No Country for Old Men,” Supporting actress: Ruby Dee, “American Gangster” and cast: “No Country for Old Men.”

In Television the winners are Actor in a movie or miniseries: Kevin Kline, “As You Like It.” Actress in a movie or miniseries: Queen Latifah, “Life Support,” Actor in a drama series: James Gandolfini, “The Sopranos,” Actress in a drama series: Edie Falco, “The Sopranos,” Actor in a comedy series: Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock,” Actress in a comedy series: Tina Fey, “30 Rock,” Drama series cast: “The Sopranos” and Comedy series cast: “The Office.”

[From HollywoodToday.net]

Here are pictures from the press room, including some of presenters Kate Hudson and a newly-shorn Matthew McConaughey. Thanks to PRPhotos.