2011 Screen Actors Guild Trophies

See who took home the trophies this year at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

TV Winners at 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards:

    * Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Al Pacino, "You Don't Know Jack"
    * Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Claire Danes, "Temple Grandin"
    * Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series: Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
    * Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series: Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
    * Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
    * Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series: Betty White, "Hot in Cleveland"
    * Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series: "Boardwalk Empire"
    * Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series: "Modern Family"
    * Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series: "True Blood"

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Social Network Steals 4 Trophies

The Social Network, the story Facebook’s birth, continued its winning streak by bagging four trophies including the best picture and best director at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards. David Fincher was named the best director, Aron Sorkin for the best screenplay while Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross piped Indian musician A.R. Rahman in the best score category. A pregnant Natalie Portman, dressed in a pink gown, accepted the best dramatic actress trophy for her performance of a troubled ballerina in Black Swan. Portman thanked director Darren Aronofsky for the movie and “such a beautiful gift with this role.” She met her fiancé, Benjamin Millepied while working on the movie. British actor Colin Firth, who had lost last year for Single Man, took home the trophy for the best actor for his performance of a stuttering King George VI in royal drama The King’s Speech. The 50-year-old star said it could be difficult going through mid-life “with your dignity and judgment intact.” Holding his trophy in his hands, Firth said: “Right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley Davidson.” The Kids Are All Right won the top comedy picture and its star Annette Bening picked up her second Golden Globe trophy in the best actress in a comedy or musical for her performance as a lesbian mother in the movie. “I’m very proud to be part of this very special film about two women who are very deeply in love and trying to keep their family together,” Bening said thanking her co-star and fellow nominee Julianne Moore for her “class act’’. Supporting honours went to The Fighter with Christian Bale winning the best supporting actor honour for his performance as former fighter and addict Dickie Eklund. Bale thanked his wife and co-star Mark Wahlberg, saying, “You can only give a loud performance like the one I gave when you have a quiet anchor.” Actress Melissa Leo, who won the best supporting trophy for her portrayal of a mom to Bale’s character in The Fighter, admitted that initially she thought she was too young to play the mother. “I really don’t know if I can play Mark and Christian’s mother. I’m a little young. Mark Wahlberg, you are a prince. You are amazing. It was beautiful to play your mother.”

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2011 Golden Globes Trophies

2011 Golden Globes Trophies... Hosted live on NBC by comedian Ricky Geravis at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, ‘The Social Network’ took home four trophies, the most of the night, including Best Picture-Drama. ‘The Kids Are All Right’ won the top comedic honor of the night, Best Picture-Musical or Comedy. As expected in the movie acting categories, Colin Firth won Best Actor for his portrayal of King Georg VI in ‘The King’s Speech.’ Natalie Portman, who recently announced her engagement to and pregnancy with dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, won for Best Actress-Drama for her portrayal of ballerina Nina Sayers in ‘Black Swan.’ In the comedy category, Paul Giamatti unexpectedly won Best Actor for his portrayal of the title character, Barney Panofsky, in ‘Barney’s Vision,’ beating out Johnny Deep’s two nominations for ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Tourist.’ But as predicted, Annette Bening won for Best Actress for playing Nic in ‘The Kids Are All Right.’ In the television categories, Steve Buscemi won Best Actor-Drama for his portrayal of Nucky Thompson in HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ which won the Best Series-Drama trophy immediately afterwards. Katey Sagal unexpectedly beat out fan favorites Julianna Margulies and Kyra Sedgwick in the Best Actress-Drama category for her portrayal of Gemma Teller Morrow in the FX series ‘Sons of Anarchy.’

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PS3 jailbreak users to fraudulently unlock Trophies

Sony's issued a statement following the release of a homebrew application that allegedly allows PS3 jailbreak users to fraudulently unlock Trophies. A company spokesperson told CVG it's looking into the development and will look to fix issues via network updates. "We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it," an SCEE spokesperson told CVG. "We will fix the issues through network updates, but because this is a security issue, we are not able to provide you with any more details." The homebrew application allegedly allowing PS3 users who have modified their console to unlock all Trophies in a PS3 title instantly and automatically, with random timestamps. It's the latest development following news that PlayStation 3 has been hacked completely and, allegedly, irreversibly by George 'Geohot' Hotz at the beginning of the month.

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Swimming for Trophies

At the Commonweath Games, Australia headed the table with 22 gold medals but it won't be until the FINA world championship in Shanghai, China, in July that we'll really know how we're going. At the last meeting, Australia won four gold medals to finish fifth on the medal table, behind the US, China, Russia and Germany. At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Australian women won six gold medals, two silver and four bronze, and the men went goldless, picking up three silver and three bronze.

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Floating away with the Trophies

Fiesta Parade Floats, the leading award winning float-builder for the Tournament of Roses Parade, has added to its already impressive float building track record as eight of its client's float entries were named award-winners by a panel of Rose Parade judges at the 122nd Tournament of Roses Parade, held earlier today in Pasadena, California. He probably has floated away with more trophies than anyone.

Among the Fiesta-built floats receiving awards today were the Dole Foods float entry, “Living Well in Paradise” which was awarded the 2011 Sweepstakes Trophy, the Parade's top prize, given to the parade's most beautiful float entry. The 2011 award marks the 18th straight year that Fiesta Parade Floats has built the Parade's Sweepstakes Trophy winning float entry.

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Great day for Racing Trophies

One of the country's most valuable racing trophies had its annual outing yesterday. The Clare Memorial Gold Cup, presented to the winner of the feature race at the Central Otago Racing Club Omakau races, resides in Central Stories Museum in Alexandra for 364 days a year. Club president Alister Eckhoff said the cup was solid Central Otago gold but he preferred not to reveal how much it was worth. "For security reasons, we'd rather not say, but it's believed to be one of the most valuable racing trophies in the country." Past president Garry McDonnell said the trophy was made in 1930 with 200 worth of gold.

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