The 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2001, took place on March 10, 2002. The ceremony was held at the
Shrine Exposition Center in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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and was televised live by
TNT
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The nominees were announced on January 29, 2002 by
Marisa Tomei
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and
Ted Danson
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at Los Angeles'
Pacific Design Center
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's SilverScreen Theatre.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
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Edward Asner
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Film
Television
In Memoriam
Performers and members of the Guild who had died the previous year that were honored in the ceremony's In Memoriam tribute:
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Aaliyah
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Imogene Coca
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Perry Como
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Dagmar
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Rosemary DeCamp
Rosemary Shirley DeCamp (November 14, 1910 – February 20, 2001) was an American radio, film, and television actress.
Life and career
Early life
Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was born in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona on November 14, 1910 to William ...
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Troy Donahue
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Biography Early years
Born in New York City, Donahue was ...
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Gloria Foster
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Arlene Francis
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Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1923August 23, 2001) was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost in ...
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David Graf
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Early life and education
Graf was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and later ...
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Jane Greer
Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer; September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001) was an American film and television actress best known for her role as ''femme fatale'' Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir '' Out of the Past''. In 2009, ''The Guardian'' ...
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Anne Haney
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George Harrison
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Nigel Hawthorne
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Eileen Heckart
Anna Eileen Heckart ( Herbert; March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American stage and screen actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years.
Early life
Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio. The daughter of Esther (), ...
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Christopher Hewett
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Peggy Lee
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Jack Lemmon
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Whitman Mayo
Whitman Blount Mayo Jr. (November 15, 1930 – May 22, 2001) was an American actor, best known for his role as Grady Wilson on the 1970s television sitcom ''Sanford and Son''.
Biography
Early years
Whitman Blount Mayo, Jr. was born in New Yor ...
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Dorothy McGuire
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Jason Miller
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Carroll O'Connor
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Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental v ...
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Avery Schreiber
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Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern (born Harriette Arlene Lake; January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Sothern began her career in the late 1920 ...
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Kim Stanley
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Guy Stockwell
Harry Guy Stockwell (November 16, 1933 – February 6, 2002) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 30 movies and 250 television series episodes.
Life and career
Stockwell was born in New York City, the son of singer/dancer Elizabeth "B ...
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Beatrice Straight
Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner as well as an Emmy Award nominee.
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Edward Winter
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Victor Wong
References
External links
The 8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
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2001 film awards
2001 television awards
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* Big screen, a nickname associated with the motion picture industry
* Split screen (filmmaking), a film composition paradigm in which mul ...
March 2002 events in the United States
2001 guild awards