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There’s a running joke that there’s more award shows than there are days in a year. That is a lot. Plus, with that many it might be hard to keep track of what’s the difference between the Golden Globes and the Oscars.  What does SAG stand for? Or is the Oscars the only award show worth paying attention to?

If you don’t know the answer to these questions but love award shows, read on. Here’s Positively Celebrity’s A – Z guide to the awards show season.

Academy Awards aka. the Oscars:

Widely considered to be the most prestigious awards show, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selects winners in the film industry. Major categories include best director, actor and actress, supporting actor and actress, writers, and picture.

Hugh Jackman hosts the 81st annual show on Feb. 22, 2009 on ABC. The nominations will be announced on Jan. 22, 2009.

The Golden Globe Awards:

Unlike the Academy Awards, this show honors the best in movies and television. Whereas the Academy Awards honors just one best picture, actor, actress, etc., the Golden Globes honors the best picture, television show, actors, and actresses, etc., in both the drama and comedy categories. The winners are selected by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is made up of a group of 90 international journalists. 

This show is also unlike most other awards shows because there is no host. The nominations were announced Dec. 11, and the show airs Jan. 11, 2009 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

Visit this site for the complete list of nominations.

The SAG (Screen Actors Guild Awards):

In this awards show, actors award other actors. This show is unique because only actors and actresses are honored. Like the Golden Globes, this show honors peformances in both movies and television. Besides individual awards, the SAG Awards also honor ensemble casts in a TV drama, TV comedy and movie. 

Nominations were announced Dec. 18, and the 15th annual show will air on TNT and TBS on January 25, 2009.

Visit this site for the complete list of nominations. 

Independent Spirit Awards:

This awards show differs from the others because It is generally laid back and only honors independent movies and performances in independent movies. The awards are presented by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. 

It takes place in a tent on a Santa Monica, CA beach the day before the Academy Awards and airs on the Independent Film Channel. The nominations were announced Dec. 2, and the show will take place on Feb. 21 at 5 pm ET.

Visit this site for the complete list of nominations.

Broadcast Film Critics Awards aka Critics’ Choice Awards:

Like the Academy Awards, this show just honors the best in filmmaking. The winners are selected by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, which is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada and is made up of 199 television, radio and online critics.

The nominations were announced Dec. 9, 2008, and the 14th annual show airs Jan. 8, 2009 on VH1 at 9 p.m. ET.

Visit this site for the complete list of nominations.

People’s Choice Awards:

This is your awards show because everyday people like you get to vote. So instead of films like “The Reader” and “Slumdog Millionaire” going at it for Best Picture, films like “The Dark Knight” and ”Iron Man” are the leading contenders. 

This year, Queen Latifah hosts the 35th annual show on Jan. 7 airing on CBS from 9-11 p.m., ET.

The People’s Choice don’t just honor movies or TV – they also award your favorite talk-show host, rock song and on-screen matchup. New categories include favorite movie cast, TV drama diva and superhero. Vote at PCAvote.com. The nominations were announced on Nov. 10. 

Visit this site for the complete list of nominations.

He’s starred in movies with Kate Winslet, Ellen Page, Annette Bening, and now with Anne Hathaway in this weekend’s “Passengers,” but you may not yet know about Patrick Wilson.

His first big film role was playing an accused pedophile in “Hard Candy” with Page followed by “Little Children” with Winslet in which he played a philandering husband.

Before that the 35-year-old actor from the South was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in HBO’s “Angels in America” and was nominated for two Tony Awards for his work on Broadway.

 “When I moved , I said the only things I wanted to do was originate the lead in a show, and if it was a musical, then do the recording, and get nominated for a Tony,” he said per Internet Movie Database. “So now that I’ve done all that, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Maybe I should dream higher.”

From the looks of his blossoming movie career, it seems he has indeed dreamed higher.

In “Passengers” he plays a mysterious plane crash survivor who gets romantically involved with the grief counselor (Hathaway) assigned to counsel the five survivors until she suspects he may have more to do with the plane crash.

Right before that he starred in last month’s “Lakeview Terrace” and next stars in the highly anticipated comic book adaptation, “Watchmen,” opening next year.

But he hasn’t given up his Broadway career. Currently he’s starring in “All My Sons” with John Lithgow, Katie Holmes and Dianne Wiest.

“I would never ‘abandon’ Broadway. I do want to expand my horizons and do more film work, but I’m interested in good roles, wherever they may be,” he said according to IMBb. “I refuse to acknowledge the gap between theater and film. I want to do both. On both coasts. So I will…unless I never get a job again, in which case I’ll go back to my first career choice: chimney sweep.”

He’s married to fellow Carnegie Mellon graduate, Dagmara Dominczyk, and two years ago they had a son, Kalin Patrick, whose initials are tattooed on Wilson’s arm.

On AMC’s critically acclaimed drama, Mad Men, Jon Hamm as adman Don Draper exudes 60s style, wearing suits and fedoras, puffing away on cigarettes and sipping martinis.

But in real life, the Emmy nominee for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series tells People magazine he’s a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy and that he quit smoking when he was 24.

“It’s glamorous on film, but it’s not glamorous waking up and smelling like an ashtray,” he told People.  (The actors smoke herbal cigarettes on the show.)

Despite his leading man good looks and the Golden Globe he won earlier this year, Mad Men is Hamm’s first major role. The 37-year-old St. Louis-bred actor first became interested in acting when he played Winnie the Pooh in first grade, according to Internet Movie Database.

While studying acting at the University of Missouri, he worked as a day care teacher during college, but before coming to Hollywood he was a high school teacher.

Since then he’s had roles in We Were Soldiers, The Division, What About Brian and The Unit. Next up, he will be in The Boy in the Box with Josh Lucas and The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves later this year.

When Hamm’s not acting, he lives in Los Angeles with his long-time partner, actress Jessica Westfeldt. Unlike philandering Don Draper, Hamm is fully committed to Westfeldt.

“I’ve been with the same girl for 10 years,” he told People. “We’re incredibly happy. We have a great life together, a beautiful dog, a house. I’m a very lucky guy.”

ABC announced on Monday the new lineup of celebs who will be shimmying and waltzing onto Dancing with the Star’s seventh season starting Sept. 22.

We’ve got the oldest and youngest contestants to ever compete, athletes who want to add the mirror ball trophy to their gold medal collection, a former boy bander, a Soap diva and more.

Read on for the complete line-up and my commentary on who might win and who might get voted off faster than a quickstep.  

Susan Lucci: This daytime diva will have plenty of votes from her devoted allegiance of soap fans; yet, she’s notoriously known for not winning the Emmy 18 years in a row before finally winning in 1999. On DWTS, she’s only got one chance to win! 

Lance Bass: The former ’N Sync member’s chances look pretty good because he has dance skills from his boy band days. Plus, fellow ’N Syncer Joey Fatone is a previous runner-up.

Cloris Leachman: The 82-year-old Oscar-winning actress is DWTS oldest ever star to compete (the previous eldest star was George Hamilton who was 66 in Season Two). We all love Mary Tyler Moore’s Phyllis and no disrespect to her, but she will have very stiff competition with the younger stars.

Toni Braxton: The Grammy-winning singer has a heart condition, but it is unknown if it will affect her rigorous dancing regimes. Season One champ Alec Mazo as her partner could help her odds.

Misty May-Treanor and Maurice Green: With four of the past six DWTS winners being athletes, the two-time gold medal-winning Olympic athletes could face off on the dance floor. Green has an extra edge being partnered with two-time winner Cheryl Burke.

Kim Kardashian: The reality star and celebutante recently injured her foot, which may give her an early disadvantage. Also, the young and pretty don’t always have the right moves. Just ask previous young and pretty stars, Willa Ford and Shannon Elizabeth, who got voted off early.

Brooke Burke: Speaking of young and pretty contestants, this TV host/model might have the same low chances as Kardashian. 

Cody Linley: The 18-year-old Hannah Montana star is the youngest star to ever compete. With two-time winning Julianne Hough as his partner, Linley could make the final cut.

Ted McGinley: The actor from Married With Children and Hope and Faith is notorious for being on shows right before they get cancelled, so here’s just hoping he doesn’t get DWTS cancelled.  

Warren Sapp: The former NFL star has the athlete DWTS winning streak increasing his odds. Plus, partner Kym Johnson, who helped Joey Fatone place second in Season 4, is a serious contender

Rocco DiSpirito: DWTS has had actors, athletes, singers and comedians, but DiSpirito is the first chef to compete. He’s good in the kitchen, but the dance floor… who knows?   

Jeffrey Ross: The comedian might not be laughing on the dance floor. Comedians generally have two left feet (see Adam Corolla and Steve Guttenberg). Plus, partner Edyta Sliwinska is the only professional dancer to compete in every season but is yet to win.

The truly talented Bernie Mac succumbed to pneumonia on Friday at a hospital in Chicago.  Mac, who battled lung disease for several years, became ill over the past week and was admitted to a hospital in Chicago. Though earlier sources reported he was responding well to treatment, Mac took a turn for the worse.

Mac conquered TV (the critically acclaimed Bernie Mac Show), film roles (Original Kings of Comedy, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve) and his comedic venues were to sellout crowds.

Mac is survived by his wife, Rhonda, and daughter, JeNiece, and many extended family and friends, many from the entertainment industry. The 50-year-old funny man, who often said what the rest of us feel regarding parenthood – will be very missed.

Kristen Aldridge: You’ve won an Oscar and two Golden Globes, you’ve done so many incredible films…what is it like to achieve such success as an actor?

Jon Voight: Well you know it’s an interesting thing. Every once in a while I look back and say, I haven’t done too badly, and then I say I did that, and that one too…not bad! But it’s my work and if you live long enough you accumulate a large body of work. I’m still very interested in what’s going on next in the world and how you make a contribution to it by my work in film.

Kristen Aldridge: You certainly know how to pick powerful projects, what do you look for in a script?

Jon Voight: It’s really a combination of many things, but for me, I like to do films that have some relevance, that maybe are needed. I read a script and I think, well this is a nice thing to say, or this is maybe important to say, or right now I think we need something like this. You always need laughter and you always need love, so those are 2 perrenials. In the drama area, you always think if there is something worth telling in this tale.