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who’s america’s favorite actor?

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America has spoken.

And, for the third year in a row, the glorious Northern American country has voted Oscar-winner Denzel Washington as their favorite actor.  Washington didn’t just beat out Ashton Kutcher and Pauly Shore, either.

Nope. He beat Hollywood heavyweights Clint Eastwood (2nd), John Wayne and Will Smith (Wayne and Smith tied for 3rd) in the Harris Poll.

Harrison Ford finished fifth, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp came in sixth, seventh and eighth.

And then, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman rounded out the top-10, respectively.

I must say, I’m not sure about this list.  One omission stands out, especially.

Heath Ledger.  Especially after his death and role as The Joker in The Dark Knight, I would have to think that he would at least knocked Morgan Freeman down a notch, but apparently not.

Recount?

aniston & pitt reunite – kind of

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Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, as I’m sure you know, were split up by Angelina Jolie.  The media thinks.

I don’t think we know the particulars of the Aniston-Pitt relationship before they were divorced and Pitt left for Jolie, but for the sake of this story, let’s just say that they were split up by Jolie.

With that established, Aniston and Pitt were reunited on Christmas this year via the box office, when both of their films broke the record for top-Christmas day release.  Aniston’s Marley and Me mad $14.8 million Thursday, and was closely followed by Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which raked in $11.8 million.

According to Variety, both films exceeded their opening day expectations by 40-50%.

Adam Sandler’s Bedtime Stories also pulled in an impressive $10.5 million, which was followed by $8.5 million for Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie.

The other big release on Christmas day was Scarlett Johhanson and Samuel L. Jackson’s The Spirit – which dramatically underperformed by only making $4 million.

Recession?  The movie market doesn’t reflect a recession.

sag nominations are out

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There’s nothing I love than award shows, which is why I am stoked that the SAG Award nominations are out today.  Let’s get to the nominations for the movie side of the award show, shall we?

Leading the pack with five nominations was Doubt.  Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis all were nominated.

The fifth award Doubt was nominated for was Best Ensemble.  Also nominated is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Richard Nixon interview-film “Frost/Nixon,” the Sean Penn-driven ”Milk” and a movie that I really want to see in “Slumdog Millionaire.”

As was expected, Heath Ledger earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the second biggest movie ever.  He is the clear favorite to win.

Kate Winslet will give it another go at a Best Actress Oscar in February, but a SAG win in either the Best Actress category for Revolutionary Road or Best Supporting Actress category for The Reader should give her a decent amount of momentum going into the Academy Awards.

Also up for the Best Actress Award is Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married and Melissa Leo for Frozen River.

Nominations for Best Actor are: Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn, “Milk”; Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; and Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.”

The award show will air on Jan. 15 on TNT and TBS.