Depp Pulls SAG Upset; Theron, 'King' Win Big

"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" star Johnny Depp pulled a stunning upset with a Outstanding Male Actor award at the 10th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night in Los Angeles.

Charlize Theron also won for Outstanding Female Actor for "Monster" and "The Lord of the Rings" was voted Outstanding Ensemble Cast.

Depp's win for playing the scheming scallywag Capt. Jack Sparrow in "Pirates" was his first major trophy for this awards season. His fellow SAG nominees, "Mystic River's" Sean Penn and "Lost in Translation's" Bill Murray, have won the majority of the industry and critic awards handed out this year.

Depp, who was not at the SAG ceremonies to accept his award, is up for the Best Actor Oscar next Sunday against Penn, Murray, Ben Kingsley for "House of Sand and Fog" and Jude Law for "Cold Mountain."

Theron, who, like Penn and Murray has won several top honors this awards season, was not denied the SAG trophy. Theron -- who won for playing real-life prostitute turned serial wrapped up her acceptance speech with an emotional tribute to her mother.

The 28-year-old of South Africa native thanked her mother for being "her angel and her date" for the awards ceremony, "who put me on a plane with a one-way ticket to Hollywood when I was 19 years old."

"Thank you for being so brave and letting me go to make my dreams come true," Theron tearfully concluded.

Several actors from "The Lord of Rings: The Return of the King" took the microphone for the film's Outstanding Ensemble win.

"The ensemble qualities of this award goes way beyond the cast -- I think everyone here realizes it," said Bernard Hill, who plays King Theoden in the fantasy epic. "We sit on top of a kind of pyramid of talent, we actors, because we can't do what we do without the whole structure beneath us."

Sean Astin (Sam), meanwhile, addressed union labor issues with the SAG crowd; Bob Shaye, chief of "Rings" studio New Line Cinema, said, "I'm a member of SAG but a terrible actor" and Billy Boyd (Pippin) -- dressed in a Scottish kilt -- appeared just happy to be there.

"A few years ago I was working in a factory in Glasgow and now I'm in a room with Clint Eastwood and Al Pacino," Boyd said.

Tim Robbins won the first award of the night with a Best Supporting Male Actor win for playing a man scarred by childhood abuse in the crime drama "Mystic River."

"Susan's got one of these," said Robbins in reference to partner Susan Sarandon SAG award for "Dead Man Walking." "I'm going to get them alone in a dark room and see what happens."

An ecstatic Robbins also used his acceptance speech as an opportunity to put forth a rallying cry to the union.

"There are so many supporting actors that make their living -- day players and people my age and a little bit older -- in SAG that have taken a hit the past few years because of a lot of runaway productions," Robbins said. "I'd like to encourage all the power that's in this room to try to bring back some of those productions into the United States of America."

Zellweger, who won last year's Outstanding Female Actor award for "Chicago," captured the Outstanding Supporting Female award for playing Nicole Kidman's tough-as-nails farmhand in the Civil War romance-drama "Cold Mountain."

"I got a great group of people that I get to work with who have integrity and who teach me every day that 'Yeah, good guys can do alright in Hollywood," Zellweger said.

The annual awards honor actors in both feature film and television.

Other winners included Keifer Sutherland and Frances Conroy for Outstanding Male Female in a Television Drama Series for "24" and "Six Feet Under," respectively, while "Six Feet Under" also nabbed the SAG Award for Outstanding Acting Ensemble for a Television Drama.

"Sex and the City" won the Outstanding Acting Ensemble for a Television Comedy on the very night it concluded its series run.

"You guys have been unbelievably generous during the course of our show," said Kristin Davis, who accepted the award along with fellow stars Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall. "It means so much to us and Sarah Jessica (Parker) that you have embraced us."

Also winning in the television comedy category were Megan Mullally for "Will and Grace" and Tony Shalhoub for "Monk." In the television movie category, "Angels in America's" Meryl Streep and Al Pacino won the Outstanding Female and Male Actor awards, respectively.

Former Academy of Motion Pictures Sciences president and Oscar-winning screen veteran Karl Malden was honored by his "Streets of San Francisco" co-star Michael Douglas.

"Let me say I'm thankful for this moment in my career," said the 91-year-old Malden. "And if I may say so, I'm thankful to you, this life of mine -- this is the peak for me."