Video Feed: Ellen Pompeo and Benjamin Bratt Join SAG President Alan Rosenberg To Announce Nominees For The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R)

Video Feed: Ellen Pompeo and Benjamin Bratt Join SAG President Alan Rosenberg To Announce Nominees For The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R)

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Secret ballots bearing the names of potential nominees for outstanding performances during 2005, in eight television and five motion picture categories including the distinctive ensemble awards originated by the SAG Awards(TM), were mailed on Dec. 2, 2005 to the film and television nominating panels, each comprised of 2100 randomly- selected SAG members from across the United States. The ballots will be returned by Jan. 3, 2006, directly to Integrity Voting Systems, the Awards' official elections teller.

The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R), the only industry accolades devoted solely to actors honoring actors, will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles.

A .pdf of the preliminary press kit for the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards(R) is available at http://www.sagawards.org/press_kit.htm

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Date: Thursday, Jan 5, 2006
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NEWS: Both TNT and E! Entertainment Television will broadcast the SAG Award nominations live on Thursday, Jan. 5, at 6:07 a.m. PT/9:07 a.m. ET from the SilverScreen Theater at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. The nominations will air for approximately 6-10 minutes. Live feeds will also be available via satellite at the coordinates below at 6:07 a.m. PT/9:07 a.m. ET.

SOUNDBITES:
* Ellen Pompeo, star of the ABC series Grey's Anatomy
* Benjamin Bratt, star of NBC's E-Ring, a SAG Award(TM) recipient for
Traffic and a five-time nominee for Law & Order
* Alan Rosenberg, Screen Actors Guild president

VIDEO PROVIDED BY: TNT

Source: TNT

CONTACT: Eileen Quast of TNT-TBS Los Angeles, +1-310-788-6797,
eileen.quast@turner.com; or Samantha Graham of TNT-TBS New York,
+1-212-275-8016, samantha.graham@turner.com, or Michelle Sisco of TNT-TBS
Atlanta, +1-404-885-4784, michelle.sisco@turner.com; or Rosalind Jarret of
Screen Actors Guild Awards(R), +1-310-235-1030, publicity@jmprod.net

Web site: http://www.multivu.com/
http://www.sagawards.org/press_kit.htm

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