SAG individuals who win frequently mind to Oscar glory

Released: Tue., November. 29, 2011, 4:00am PTBy SAG's feature ensemble award has switched that need considering a comparatively uncanny barometer of Oscar's best pic race. Since SAG first introduced the course in 1995, the two orgs have made the decision around the champion eight occasions from 16, and merely two occasions hold the individuals who win for starters org not been nominated with the other inside their particular top groups.By SAG champion Oscar best pic YEAR SAG Champion OSCAR BEST PIC1995 Apollo 13* Braveheart 1996The Birdcage The British Patient** 1997 The Whole Monty* Titanic** 1998 Shakespeare for one another Shakespeare for one another 1999 American Beauty American Beauty 2000Traffic*Gladiator** 2001 Gosford Park* A Stylish Mind** 2002Chicago Chicago 2003 Master in the Rings: Return in the KingLord in the Rings: Return in the King2004SidewaysMillion Dollar Baby** 2005CrashCrash2006Little Miss SunshineThe Departed** 2007 No Country for Old MenNo Country for Old Men2008Slumdog MillionaireSlumdog Millionaire2009Inglourious Basterds*The Hurt Locker** 2010 The King's SpeechThe King's Speech * nominated for top Picture with the Acad ** nominated for just about any SAG ensemble award SAG Honours: The Ensemble:Hunting in pairs Jay shows novelty helmet for rising talent Expert opinions Primetime wholes composed of great parts SAG individuals who win frequently mind to Oscar glory Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

SAG Foundation President JoBeth Wiliams Praises Silent Philanthropists

In her post as president of the nonprofit and philanthropic Screen Actors Guild Foundation, JoBeth Williams manages a slew of outreach programs. Here, the veteran of film ("The Big Chill") and television ("Dexter") shares the biggest and most rewarding challenges of her guild post.The Hollywood Reporter: You've been a SAG member since 1979, when you made your film debut as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in "Kramer vs. Kramer." How did you get involved with the SAG Foundation? JoBeth Williams: I was on the national board of the guild, and actress Bonnie Bartlett asked me if I knew about the foundation's work. I didn't. She told me all about the wonderful programs, and [actor] Esai Morales told me he'd been involved with our literacy program, BookPals. I loved the idea of actors helping other actors. Our profession is so up and down no matter the level of success, we all go through periods of not having what we need. I really wanted to be involved, so they elected me to the board. Two years later, in 2007, they elected me president.THR: This is a volunteer job. How much time do you spend doing this? Williams: Right now, I'm very involved as we have a new executive director, Jill Seltzer. I'm also on every committee, so there are some months I'm devoting 30 to 40 hours. I'm on the phone a lot; I'm sending e-mails, trying to get people to come to events and contribute. We are always looking to bring on new board members. And, of course, I'm also a working actress.THR: The foundation oversees many outreach programs, like BookPals, and provides financial assistance to members who need medical care or can't pay rent. What is your biggest challenge in managing these needs? Williams: Funding for all of it, obviously, but also getting our members to even know about the programs. For example, with BookPals, I really hope we get more funding for it. It's fairly easy to execute in L.A., but we are a national organization, and in certain areas, where there aren't as many members, we need donations. The foundation is separate from the guild and funded wholly by donations; no dues are used. We are essentially a charity.We recently did this incredible golf tournament to raise money for our catastrophic health program and had wonderful actors like Ray Romano, Ron Perlman and Scott Bakula participate. Many of them told me, "I didn't know about the SAG Foundation." Now Ron wants to join the board. He told me, "I want to get the message out to my fellow actors about these programs."THR: What areas have the greatest need right now? Williams: We always have strong need for emergency health care assistance. Also, our literacy programs, like [the streaming video site] Storyline Online, are growing quickly. We get millions of web hits around the world for Storyline. Annette Bening just read a book online, and James Earl Jones did one too. Teachers love it, and kids all over the world can see these incredible actors. It'd be great to get strong funding for Storyline since it reaches so many young people.THR: What is the most meaningful thing SAG has done to impact Hollywood?Williams: SAG established the rules that prevent actors from being taken advantage of. The 12-hour turn-around, meal breaks things that we take for granted now but you look back on and realize that these regulations weren't always in place. THR: What moments during your tenure stand out as particularly poignant? Williams: When people come to us and say, "I can't afford to pay health insurance because I'm ill and can't work." We've had an incredible number of well-known names come to us in times of need we never say who they are, of course and that's always amazing to me. The actor's life is a roller coaster. You never know when it's going to happen to you. The Hollywood Reporter

'Breaking Dawn' shines at B.O. with $12.5 mil

Nearly doubling Wednesday's second place title, Summit's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" kick started Thanksgiving weekend with $12.5 million, while Disney's "The Muppets" followed with an opening day tally of $6.6 million."Breaking Dawn" has tallied so far $171.5 million domestically in just six days.In third place, Warner Bros.' second-week holdover "Happy Feet Two" collected $2.9 million, bringing its current Stateside cume to $28.3 million.The holiday's remaining debut pair, Sony's "Arthur Chrismas" and Paramount's "Hugo," came in within hailing distance of each other in Wednesday grosses, earning $1.9 million and $1.7 million, respectively. "Arthur Christmas" is expected to pull ahead of "Hugo" over the long weekend, with more family appeal, while "Hugo," which pre-weekend tracking services had pegged to earn in five days in the low-double digits, is playing mostly to a adult prestige crowd.Meanwhile, weekend estimates for "The Muppets" are somewhere in the $40 millions for five days.Moviegoing traffic will slow down considerably today, but is expected to pick up after the holiday through Sunday, especially with the frames family-skewing product."Breaking Dawn" collected roughly $1.5 million less than "New Moon," when it played during this exact corridor in 2009. That pic grossed over the long Thanksgiving holiday $66 million. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

'Red Dog' has its day at Oz kudo

BRISBANE -- Feelgood Aussie pic "Red Dog" fetched seven kudos at the Jameson Inside Film Awards kudocast Wednesday night in Sydney. Pic, which tells the story of how a canny canine unites a small Aussie town in the remote Pilbara region, won the top kudo for best film while Josh Lucas took actor. "Red Dog" also took home kudos for direction, script, cinematography, music and box office achievement for its haul of over $20 milllion at the B.O. The actress prize went to Emily Watson for her role in "Oranges and Sunshine" while movie reviewers Margaret Pomeranz and former Variety critic David Stratton were named Living Legends. The Inside Film Awards are people's choice awards and screen on pubcaster SBS. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Sarah Palin Angered Roger Ailes by Not Announcing Presidential Campaign Plans on Fox News (Report)

Sarah Palin upset her bosses at Fox News when she decided to announce her decision not to run for president on the cable news network, NY Magazine reported, citing anonymous sources.our editor recommendsSarah Palin Calls For Hanging of Jerry Sandusky During Fox News Appearance (VIDEO)Orlando Jones Apologizes for Advising Liberals to 'Kill Sarah Palin'Sarah Palin Book Publisher, Author Under Fire After Personal E-mails LeakLevi Johnston and Sarah Palin Book Debuts Bomb The Fox News commentator -- and former reality star and governor of Alaska -- reportedly angered network chief Roger Ailes by choosing to announce her intentions on Mark Levin's talk-radio show Oct. 5. The reveal came after months of speculation about her plans and got a bit lost amid the news of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death. PHOTOS: 10 Hollywood Players That Will Make a Difference in the 2012 Elections Later that night, she gave a follow-up interview on Fox News' On the Record With Greta Van Susteren. Ailes was reportedly so upset by Palin's handling of the announcement that he considered refusing to put her on the air again and letting the remainder of her $1 million contract expire in 2013. PHOTOS: 10 Entertainers Democrats and Republicans Love to Hate "I paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network," Ailes is said to have told Fox News executive vp Bill Shine at the time. Shine then called Palin's reps, who discussed the matter with Palin, who then apologized. PHOTOS: Actors Who've Played Politicians As for why she reached out to Levin to make her announcement rather than Fox News, Palin is said to be upset that Fox News regularly employs Karl Rove as a contributor. The two have a history of feuding with each other. Meanwhile, the NY Magazine reports that Palin and Ailes' relationship is still tense, with Palin not providing the ratings boost he was expecting when he hired her. Related Topics Sarah Palin Roger Ailes Fox News Channel Politics

'Breaking Dawn' Vampire Baby & 10 Other Nasty Movie Births

Even if you are less smitten with "The Twilight Saga" since the lots of screaming tweens across the country presently missing school to find out "Breaking Beginning Part 1," the film might be worth searching at just for that bananas birth scene within the film's finish. Youthful Edwards Friend Jacob, heavy-laden with Edward Cullen's vampire seed, switches into labor, then when a knife can't penetrate the placenta and release the bloodsucking fetus, her husband starts noshing on her behalf account tummy. The whole scene is bloody and cheesy and absurd and, although not quite worth the price of admission, is obviously most likely probably the most memorably nuts movie sequences of 2011. In using this method, the "Breaking Beginning" having a baby joins a extended and every so often venerable report on nasty movie birth moments. Discover about many of them below. "Conan the Barbarian" As if we needed any longer evidence that Ron Perlman might be the very best dude in the world, he swoops in from nowhere to do a mid-fight cesarean on his wounded wife. Then he holds little Conan above his mind like he just acquired the winning touchdown within the Super Bowl which is gonna spike the child on the ground. "Knocked Up" Mtss is a person's gross only because we didn't notice coming. Not for just about any second did we assume Judd Apatow would train his camera on Katherine Heigl's stunt vagina. But he did. Which i was left thinking everyone else to tweak what Jay Baruchel had declared minutes earlier inside the movie shouldn't walk inside. "The Brood" It is not enough this lady asexually created which is moving her baby outdoors her body due to the deranged ministrations of her psychotherapist? She then must grasp her mutant dwarf baby and lick it clean of blood stream, placenta and who knows what else? No, for David Cronenberg, it had not been nearly enough. "The Fly" Using what is only able to be known to as Cronenberg's effort to out-Cronenberg themselves after "The Brood," the director has poor Geena Davis afraid they gives birth with a mutant freak after Rob Goldblum heavy-laden her dream they is getting an infant with a huge bloody larva earthworm factor. "Freddy Got Fingered" When Tom Eco-friendly finds themselves in the hospital room alongside a girl in labor, his OBGYN instincts make him asking the newborn to think about his hands, biting using the umbilical cord along with his teeth, and looking to "awakenInch the newborn by swinging it as being a lasso above his mind. Tom Eco-friendly is not your physician. Nor should he be allowed to produce, direct and star in the movie. "The Slopes Have Eyes 2" Discuss an embarrassment of gross-birth riches: the film opens getting a naked prisoner disgorging a bloody mutant baby after which it getting her skull crushed by her captor. No less than she'll never are stricken by postpartum depression. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Anybody who'd been wondering how Leatherface became a member of our world got an answer in this 2006 horror flick once we saw the long run killer squashed within an awful meatpacking plant and thrown in the nastier rubbish. The little tyke did not come with an chance! "Males in Black" A apparently normal traffic stop turns into a really bizarre miracle-of-alien-birth scene each time a squid-ant extraterrestrial peeks from from the pregnant woman's legs and starts flinging Will Cruz around as being a ragdoll. The world defender will declare the kid is cute if the pukes throughout him. Here come themen covered in baby vomit? "Beginning in the Dead" As being a zombie mother taking a shower out her zombie spawn will most likely be anything aside from f--king disgusting. "Ace Ventura: When Character Calls" By which Jim Carrey is birthed in the rhinoceros' butthole. Reveal everything you consider the "Breaking Beginning" birth scene inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

John Shea Joins NBCUniversals Integrated Media Business as Executive VP and CMO

NY - MTV Networks veteran John Shea has joined NBCUniversal's Entertainment & Digital Networksand Integrated Media division as executive vp and CMO of integrated media, the company said Wednesday. The content creator and marketing executive will report directly to Lauren Zalaznick, who is chairman of the unit. Shea, who also is known for developing and producing shows, has also entered a first-look development deal with NBCUniversal, giving the company and its units access to his programming ideas, the company said. "John is a highly creative content producer and strategic marketer, who is one of thetop experts in this field," said Zalaznick. "His leadership will help build on NBCUniversal's strong position in the integrated media business." Shea will be charged with "driving incremental revenue across the company by creating innovative content and marketing solutions for advertising partners across the company's vast spectrum of TV and digital properties," the company said. He will have strategic oversight for several company-wide content, research and marketing initiatives, including Women at NBCU, Hispanics at NBCU, Green Is Universal and Healthy at NBCU.He will also collaborate on all cross-company integrated media marketing efforts. "NBCUniversal- with its unmatched portfolio of properties, access to talent, and deep consumer insights-isextremely well positionedto develop innovative content that engages the consumer and travels acrossall screens," said Shea. His group will also closely work withthesales and marketingleads at NBCUniversal's digitalproperties, such as Fandango, iVillage and DailyCandy. During the first quarter of 2011, Shea served astheintegrated mediagroup's "CMO inResidence." Shea spent much of his career at MTV Networks. He created Fresh Takes, starring Alicia Keyes, as the first-ever short form linear/digital mini-series on MTV and executive produced MTV series Gamekillers in partnership with Unilever. Shea previously also led the DreamWorks/Universal location-based entertainment co-venture Gameworks, where he was responsible for consumer advertising and trade brand building. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics NBCUniversal Lauren Zalaznick