Sag Awards - 'The Help' Wins Big at SAG Awards VOA News The Help, a movie about African American maids in the 1960s in (the US state of) Mississippi was the big winner at Sunday's 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film won best ensemble, ...

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January 30, 2012 'The Help' Wins Big at SAG Awards VOA News The Help, a movie about African
American maids in the 1960s in (the US state of) Mississippi was the big winner at Sunday's 18th
annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film won best ensemble, ...
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SAG AWARDS
POSTED BY EIZ ON THURSDAY, 19 JANUARY, 2012, 7:14 AM
Octavia Spencer, winner of award for
outstanding performance by a female
actor in a supporting role for "The Help,"
left, and Viola Davis, winner of the award
for outstanding performance by a female
actor in a leading role for "The Help," pose
backstage at the 18th Annual Screen
Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles,
January 29, 2012. The Help, a movie
about African American maids in the
1960s in (the U.S. state of) Mississippi
was the big winner at Sunday's 18th
annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The film won best ensemble, best actress for Viola Davis and best supporting actress for Octavia
Spencer. In accepting her award Davis said the "stain of racism and sexism" is not just for people
of color or women, but is "all of our burden."
French actor Jean Dujardin was named best actor for the silent film The Artist, while 82-year-old
Christopher Plummer took the supporting actor award for his role in Beginners, where he plays a
man who comes to terms with his homosexuality late in life.
The TV drama show winners were Jessica Lange as best actress for American Horror Story on FX
and Steve Buscemi as best actor for HBO's Boardwalk Empire which also won the ensemble prize.
For TV movie or miniseries, Kate Winslet won as best actress for HBO's Mildred Pierce, while Paul
Giamatti was named best actor for HBO's Too Big to Fail.
Mary Tyler Moore received SAG's lifetime achievement award. Dick Van Dyke, her co-star in the
1960s television comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, presented her the award.
SAG's movie awards are generally seen as a prelude to the culmination of the Hollywood awards
season, the Oscars, to be held next month.
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