Slumdog Millionaire won the film cast award with a company of largely unknown and first-time actors. Sean Penn (Milk) and Meryl Streep (Doubt) took lead honors; Heath Ledger won supporting posthumously for The Dark Knight, and Kate Winslet supporting for The Reader. Mad Men and 30 Rock won the TV ensembles. James Earl Jones received the Life Achievement Award.

HISTORICAL NOTES

• Slumdog Millionaire was the first film with a predominantly non-American, non-English-speaking-market cast to win the top prize.

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