Actors Honor Roberts, Del Toro

March 11 -- Steven Soderbergh may have lost out at the Directors Guild Awards Saturday night (despite — or because of — a double nomination), but his stars — Erin Brockovich's Julia Roberts and Albert Finney, and the entire cast of Traffic — shone at the 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday.

Nearly all the actors we spoke with before the SAG Awards offered up the same name for their favorite performance of the year: Benicio Del Toro in Traffic.

That collective thumbs-up translated into a best actor prize for Del Toro, who won a Golden Globe Award and is nominated for an Oscar in the supporting actor category. Del Toro collected another SAG Actor statuette as part of the large ensemble cast of Traffic.

Nineteen of Traffic's 100-plus actors received the SAG ensemble award — of those, 12 were on hand to accept their prize, including Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, and Luis Guzman.

Peers Crown Julia Roberts If SAG is a big high school and the awards ceremony a prom, as best actress award winner Julia Roberts joked in her teary, rambling acceptance speech, then her acting peers truly named her the prom queen.

In the most emotional acceptance speech we've seen since Gwyneth Paltrow's Oscar-fueled breakdown, a seemingly insecure Roberts said, "Now I feel so much better about my level of talent than I did this afternoon. I'm a fraud to stand here alone." She thanked the "invisible people … who make me look like I know what I'm doing."

The actress, who is favored to win the same prize March 25 at the Oscars, called director Soderbergh "my own personal God," and also thanked "Benjamin, honey," a k a her boyfriend, Benjamin Bratt.

Bratt also picked up his first SAG award, as part of the Traffic ensemble. As a beaming Roberts joked backstage, "Come to our house, we're happy all the time."

Experience Before BeautyIn the supporting actor and actress in a motion picture categories, SAG members chose experience over It status, favoring Finney over Gladiator's Joaquin Phoenix and Chocolat's Judi Dench over Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson (Almost Famous). Since he had a small role in Traffic, Finney also received two awards this evening. His individual win was made easier by the promotion of Oscar rival Del Toro to the lead actor category in this awards race. Neither Finney nor Dench were on hand to accept their awards in person.