Sean Penn took home the Screen Actors Guild award last night for Milk. It was the sole award for Milk as Slumdog Millionaire took “Best Ensemble” and the late Heath Ledger won “Best Supporting Actor” for The Dark Knight.
He started out his speech with a message for a certain FOX News ranter: “Thank you and good evening, comrades. That was for O'Reilly”…
Penn continued, “Something happened to me during the making of this movie. I noticed it tonight that the statues have rather healthy packages.”
Putting the unnecessary gay=sex joke aside*, he continued, “As actors we don't play gay, straight …we play human beings. [I'm] so appreciative of this acknowledgment. This is a story of equal rights for all human beings. Thanks Gus Van Sant, Lance Black, the counsel of Cleve Jones and the great Harvey Milk.”
*To be fair, Laura Linney also made a joke about trying not to fondle her statue.
Full list of honorees, AFTER THE JUMP…
ACTOR
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk*
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Meryl Streep – Doubt*
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight*
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – Doubt
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet – The Reader*
ENSEMBLE CAST
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire*
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
ENSEMBLE STUNTS
The Dark Knight*
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Wanted
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
James Earl Jones
