31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Winners Update: Last night, February 23, the guild had their awards ceremony and the best part of the TV shows were the clips collages as not often seen are clips with favorite films and favorite TV shows together flowing seamlessly; also, these clips show the many film actors that have done and are doing what long ago was called TV shows and now is called streaming shows, bingeable shows (my very fav long-movies) and/or online shows. That's how the industry has changed and will continue to change in the future. Great!

As a matter of fact the SAG show is broadcasted live to the world via Netflix which honestly is a lot better (even if they had serious sound troubles) than using less prepared services like Vimeo, Youtube or their own video platform. I just hope film festivals and awards shows learn the advantages of going global and not only local and nowadays is not only Netflix that can do it as there are other platforms that already did it for the Olympic Games or have many live broadcast channels.

Anyway the major surprises are Chalamet winning best actor as opens the Oscar game into consider him as a front runner, remember this guild is the largests Oscar voter and as such influences the general vote. Also Conclave becomes an important Oscar player and most interesting is the lack of recognition The Brutalist and Anora got, making them film critics and independent awards favorites but seems not so much among Oscar voters.

Still believe that in some categories the Oscar race is open but seems that Kieran Culking, Zoe Saldaña and Demi Moore have an Oscar in their near future.

Winners are below in *BLUE. If you wish to check winners in all categories go official site here.

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January 9, 2024
Yesterday, January 8th, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced the nominations for the current edition of their annual awards that honor outstanding stunt, individual, cast and ensemble performances for the past year.

Voted on by SAG-AFTRA's membership of 122,000+ performers, the SAG Awards has the largest voting body on the awards circuit and a large number of them are also Academy voting members, therefore is a big crowd of Academy Awards voters that usually profile Oscar nominations and winner.

Wicked leads with 5 nominations followed by A Complete Unknown with 4 and Emilia Pérez and Anora with 3 nominations each.

Since 1995, when the ensemble cast category was introduced, only 4 films have won best picture at the Oscar without earning a SAG cast nomination. All five nominees are Oscar frontrunners but there is one frontrunner missing, The Brutalist; we assume will get an Oscar nomination -remember there could be up to 10 nominations in best picture category- but wonder if chances to get top award are diminished by the lack of support from this guild.

Angelina Jolie nor Nicole Kidman earned a nomination giving the spots to Pamela Anderson and Cynthia Erivo as Gascón, Madison and Moore were expected names. In the supporting role category the omissions call more the attention than those who are nominated as none other than Selena Gomez (also out of TV Comedy category but it's named in TV cast) is out while Zoe Saldaña is in suggesting her Oscar nomination may be reality for one and not for the other; still, the biggest surprise is Jamie Lee Curtis nomination and equally surprising is Margaret Quallye's snub.

Believe the male performance category is the most boring as all those nominated were expected to be nominated making possible that the two Oscar frontrunners still are Adrien Brody and Colman Domingo. Same happens with male supporting role as we all know Kieran Culkin has to and will win his first Oscar.

The awards show will stream live globally on Netflix Sunday, February 23 at 8:00 pm ET from the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall.

The Nominations

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Monica Barbaro, Norbert Leo Butz, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Dan Fogler, Will Harrison, Eriko Hatsune, Boyd Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Big Bill Morganfield, and Edward Norton in  A Complete Unknown

Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison, Aleksey Serebryakov, and Vache Tovmasyan in Anora

*Sergio Castellitto, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Isabella Rossellini, and Stanley Tucci in Conclave - WINNER

Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez

Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, and Michelle Yeoh in Wicked

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Mikey Madison in Anora
Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez
Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl
*Demi Moore in The Substance - WINNER
Cynthia Erivo in Wicked

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro in A Complete Unknown
*Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez - WINNER
Jamie Lee Curtis in The Last Showgirl
Danielle Deadwyler in The Piano Lesson
Ariana Grande in Wicked

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
*Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown - WINNER
Adrien Brody in The Brutalist
Ralph Fiennes in Conclave
Daniel Craig in Queer
Colman Domingo in Sing Sing

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Edward Norton in A Complete Unknown
Yura Borisov in Anora
*Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain - WINNER
Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice
Jonathan Bailey in Wicked

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Deadpool and Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
*The Fall Guy - WINNER
Wicked

To check the nominations at official site to check all categories go here and if wish to read press release go here.