Juan Soliz, PacificCoastNews.com

Here we have the ever so suave Sean Penn and his beautiful wife as they pose all pretty like on the red carpet last night shortly before the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Oh yes, in Hollywood they seem to replace Winter with Awards Season as with the Globes, SAGs, Emmy’s, and Oscars, the stars are alight with the sound of the phrase ‘and the winner is…’. And in the case of the SAGs last night, Sean Penn emerged a big winner, as did the ever so fabulous Meryl Streep. The win for Streep was a bit of a surprise to many, as the award was expected to go to Kate Winslet after she took the Golden Globe for the Best Actress category. In fact, the surprise was one even for Meryl, who humbly noted that she was so not expecting this that she ‘didn’t even buy a dress’ and wore a simple black pants ensemble to the awards. Yes, you have to know that you are THAT big in Hollywood when you don’t even care enough to dress your very best at the Screen Actors Guilds. At any rate, the win for Penn was not that much a surprise, as he is the predicted winner for the Best Actor category for his stunning performance as a gay man in ‘Milk’. Yes, it is being said that he will even beat out Brad Pitt for his work in ‘Benjamin Button’ in this category, but that’s what happens when you toss in the controversial gay topic. Maybe next time, Brad. And Sean was duly humbled by the win, saying in his speech:

“as actors, we don’t play gay/straight … we play human beings. This is a story about equal rights for all human beings.”

And again, Sean was a little surprised at the award, given that this year’s biggest comeback was Mickey Rourke, who has to date been beating him out in this category. So I can’t help but wonder, what the heck is going to happen at the Oscars? In days gone by, the Golden Globes have been very effective predictors for the Academy evening, but now we are seeing some surprises and mixed messages with Meryl/Kate and Sean/Mickey….And yet another surprise with a big winner was when ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won the SAG for the Outstanding Cast category. Many predicting afficonados are claiming this foreshadows a probable Best Picture Oscar win, and given that Slumdog is up for 10, second only to Benjamin Button, they may just be right here. What do you think? A few short weeks until the big night, get your predictions in now!

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