Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler’s upper back are seen at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.)
George Clooney was a Best Actor SAG Award nominee for his performance in Alexander Payne’s family drama The Descendants, featuring Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer. Brad Pitt was also in the running for Bennett Miller’s baseball drama Moneyball, opposite Jonah Hill and Robin Wright. Angelina Jolie wasn’t in the running for anything, though a couple of weeks ago she did get a Golden Globe nomination (in the Best Foreign Language Film category) for her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, set during the Bosnian War. Stacy Keibler, for her part, was a Teen Choice Award nominee in 2006 for her appearance in Dancing with the Stars.
As it happened, Clooney surprisingly lost the Best Actor SAG Award to The Artist’s out-of-towner Jean Dujardin. In addition to Clooney, Dujardin, and Pitt, the other nominees in that category were Demián Bichir as an undocumented Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles in Chris Weitz’s A Better Life and Leonardo DiCaprio as the all-powerful FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, featuring Judi Dench and Best Supporting Actor SAG Award nominee Armie Hammer.
Also worth noting is that The Descendants lost the Best Cast SAG Award to Tate Taylor’s The Help, which included two of the evening’s SAG Award winners: Best Actress Viola Davis and Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer. The other Best Cast contenders were Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Michel Hazanavicius‘ The Artist, and Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids.