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Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2006 at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® in ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 28 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The 13h Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® was simulcast by TNT and TBS at 8 p.m., ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT

The honorees were selected by the active Guild membership nationwide.

Julie Andrews was presented with Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, the 43rd Annual Life Achievement Award by Dick Van Dyke following a filmed tribute introduced by Anne Hathaway.

Honored with individual awards were Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren, Eddie Murphy and Forest Whitaker for performances in motion pictures and Alec Baldwin, America Ferrera, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Laurie, Helen Mirren and Chandra Wilson for performances in television. Screen Actors Guild originated awards for the outstanding performances by a motion picture cast and by television comedy and drama ensembles. The Actor® for a motion picture cast performance went this year to Little Miss Sunshine and the Actors® for television comedy and drama ensemble performances went this year to The Office and Grey’s Anatomy.

Kiefer Sutherland introduced a cinematic salute to SAG members who are “Heard but Not Seen”.

PEOPLE magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) hosted the Screen Actors Guild Post- Awards Gala for the eleventh consecutive year. This exclusive event honors the philanthropic causes and good works of the members of the Screen Actors Guild. The gala, benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, immediately followed the SAG Awards on the back lot of the Shrine Exposition Center.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards® is a presentation of Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild. Jeff Margolis is the executive producer and director. Kathy Connell is the producer. Yale Summers, Daryl Anderson, Shelley Fabares, Paul Napier and JoBeth Williams are producers for SAG. Gloria Fujita O’Brien and Mick McCullough are supervising producers. Stephen Pouliot is the writer. Benn Fleishman is executive in charge of production.

The complete list of recipients of the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® follows.

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Forest Whitaker / THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND – Idi Amin Fox Searchlight Pictures
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Helen Mirren / THE QUEEN – The Queen Miramax Films.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Eddie Murphy / DREAMGIRLS – James “Thunder” Early Paramount Pictures
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Jennifer Hudson / DREAMGIRLS – Effie White Paramount Pictures
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Fox Searchlight Pictures
Alan Arkin Grandpa
Abigail Breslin Olive
Steve Carell Frank
Toni Collette Sheryl
Paul Dano Dwayne
Greg Kinnear Richard