The Screen Actors Guild awarded trophies to Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman last Saturday during the ceremony televised at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
“Thank you for Ray Charles for just living so complex and so interesting, and making us all just come together,” said Foxx upon receiving his award for best actor for Ray.
Morgan Freeman took home best supporting actor honors for Million Dollar Baby and promptly thanked “everybody I ever met.”
The wins gave all the actors an Oscar boost just as voting gets under way for Hollywood’s top honors. The winner of the SAG cast-performance prize has gone on to receive the top Oscar four times in the nine years since the guild added that category.