Nominations for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced this week by Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack (Will and Grace).

The Awards will be solely selected by the actors’ peers. Two randomly selected panels (one for TV and one for film), each made up of 2,100 Guild members will vote on the winners by secret mail ballots. The official winners will be announced during the live ceremony which be broadcasted on TNT and TBS on January 25, 2009 at at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT, and 6 p.m. MT from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

Doubt leads the way with five nominations, and Heath Ledger receives another nomination for his supporting role as the Joker in The Dark Knight. James Earl Jones has been chosen for the 45th Life Achievement Award.

The complete list of nominees:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:

Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role:

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role:

Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role:

Amy Adams - Doubt
Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture:

Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:

Ralph Fiennes - Bernard And Doris
Paul Giamatti - John Adams
Kevin Spacey - Recount
Kiefer Sutherland - 24: Redemption
Tom Wilkinson - John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries:

Laura Dern - Recount
Laura Linney - John Adams
Shirley MacLaine - Coco Chanel
Phylicia Rashad - A Raisin In The Sun
Susan Sarandon - Bernard And Doris

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series:

Michael C. Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House
William Shatner - Boston Legal
James Spader - Boston Legal

Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor in a Drama Series:

Sally Field - Brothers + Sisters
Mariska Hargitay - Law + Order: Special Victims Unit
Holly Hunter - Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss - Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series:

Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carell - The Office
David Duchovny - Californication
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Tony Shalhoub - Monk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series:

Christina Applegate - Samantha Who?
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds
Tracey Ullman - Tracey Ullman's State Of The Union

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series:

Boston Legal
Dexter
House
Mad Men
The Closer

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series:

30 Rock
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

Screen Actors Guild's 45th Life Achievement Award:

James Earl Jones

—Jessica Delli Santi