SAG AWARDS

SAG Awards show update

Sutherland to introduce salute; Hathaway, Van Dyke present life achievement award.

By Mark Olsen, The Envelope

January 19, 2007

The show part of the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards show came into clearer focus this week, as a series of announcements were made regarding presenters and special events at the ceremony on Sunday, January 28th.

Nominees Annette Bening, Steve Carell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Teri Hatcher, Ashton Kutcher, Sandra Oh, Kyra Sedgwick and Forest Whitaker are all also scheduled as presenters.

Anne Hathaway and Dick Van Dyke will present the Screen Actors Guild 43rd Life Achievement Award to Julie Andrews. Hathaway co-starred with Andrews in "The Princess Diaries" and its sequel, while Van Dyke appeared with Andrews in "Mary Poppins."

Past recipients of the Life Achievement Award include Shirley Temple Black, James Garner, Edward Asner, Elizabeth Taylor and Angela Lansbury.

Kiefer Sutherland, two-time SAG Award winner and an individual nominee for the fifth consecutive year, will introduce a salute to "Actors Who Are Heard But Not Seen," voice actors whose performances are nevertheless covered under SAG contracts.

Previous SAG Awards shows have celebrated commercial actors, child actors, character actors, female comic actors, background singers, dancers, background performers, animation voice-over performers and stunt performers.

Finally, Kevin Nealon, a first-time nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for his part on the show "Weeds," will open the red carpet at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center with a champagne toast.