SAG Award Winners

The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held last night in Los Angeles. The SAG is the only organisation in which the winners of its awards are voted only by actors themselves - leaving out all the other peer groups such as directors, screenwriters and producers who all have their own awards to deal out.

Among this year's winners there are no surprises in the feature film categories. The award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture went to The Weinstein Company's factual drama The King's Speech. The film also received the award for best actor in a leading role as Colin Firth won for his performance as King George VI. Firth has now won three major awards for his role (Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award and SAG Award) and he is still nominated in the Academy and BAFTA Awards.

Just out: Henry Cavill to play Superman

Henry Cavill in The Tudors

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have announced that British actor Henry Cavill will play Clark Kent in the studios' new Superman reboot. Cavill is best known for his role as Charles Brandon in the TV series The Tudors. He can next be seen on the big screen later this year with Mickey Rourke in Relativity Media's fantasy action film Immortals.

Superman: Man of Steel will be helmed by Zack Snyder who directed the film adaptation of Watchmen (2009). The reboot is produced by Christopher Nolan who has already successfully rebooted the Batman franchise and is now working on the last instalment in his Gotham trilogy.

The release of the new Superman film is currently planned for December 2012.

Source: Deadline.com

Tom Hooper gets DGA grand prize for The King's Speech

Tom Hooper (centre) directing Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth on set of The King's Speech

Tom Hooper received his first big price last night for his new sensational film The King's Speech. The English director won the most anticipated award at the 63rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.

This victory makes Hooper the front-runner to win the Oscar for Best Director at the end of February. In the history of the Academy Awards, the winners of the DGA Award and the Oscar for Best Director have been different only six times. Last time this happened in 2003 when Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for Chicago but lost the Oscar to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.