Kristin's Report: Sunshine at the Soggy SAGs

нд., січ. 27, 2008 9:25 PM PST by Kristin Dos Santos

Despite the rain, despite the strike and despite nearly getting trampled by the Brangelina brigade and serving as a landing cushion for a falling Sandra Oh, it was good to be at the Shrine Auditorium tonight for the soggy SAGs. After all, we could use a little sense of glamour and Hollywood normalcy right about now, could we not?

The 2008 SAG Awards Red Carpet included a few choice behind-the-scenes moments, including:

• Brad and Angelina causing instant chaos upon their arrival, parting the red carpet sea with a massive security detail and sucking Sophia Bush away from me, midinterview.
  
  
• A truly sweet and gracious Oh missing the platform on her way up to Giuliana’s interview spot and adorably laughing it off and moving on.
  
  
• Zach Gilford from Friday Night Lights ricocheting through the carpet like a bottle-rocket of sunshine, meeting and chumming it up with every fellow actor in sight. (I overheard him inviting Woody Harrelson to come hang at Zuma Beach in Malibu this week and telling America Ferrera how much he wanted to approach her in a restaurant this morning but was too shy—turns out, um, it wasn’t America.)
  
  
• Jane Krakowski proving she’s nothing like her 30 Rock alter ego and patiently waiting a good 10 minutes (eternity in carpet time) for an interview before kindly asking,”Do you want me to come back later? I really don’t mind.”

And that brings us to the giddy-good cheer-worthy moments of tonight’s SAG Awards ceremony results.

Tina Fey (God bless her genius soul) now has a SAG Award to bookend her Globe and is bound to have any Emmy any second now. (Okay, it’ll take eight months, but we Fey fans can live with that.) Tina’s first SAG coup coupled with Alec Baldwin’s second SAG win were much deserved, and Office fans also have a reason to do a happy Snoopy jig, as our good pals at Dunder-Mifflin scored their second Ensemble win in a row.

Earlier on the carpet, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer and their Office cubemates told me that while they’d love to win, they were also rooting for their good friends on 30 Rock...and the 30 clan said the exact same thing about the Dunder gang. So, you know there is some fierce Office-Rock party going on somewhere right about now.

And of course, on the drama side, The Sopranos had quite the swan-song sweep with wins for James Gandolfini and Edie Falco (who haven’t won since 2003) and Ensemble (last win was in 2000). So, it seems not everyone is still cursing that black hole of cut-to-black despair.

What did you all think of the TV wins? Were the SAG voters right on the money, or were there more deserving contenders? Michael C. Hall certainly comes to mind, but don’t get this die-hard Dexter fan started...Instead, go ahead and share your thoughts in the Comments section.

—Filed by Kristin Dos Santos