For all those who have complained about the excessively long awards and technical failures of pandemic era ceremonies, rest assured that the Screen Actors Guild Awards are doing things differently.
The 27th annual SAG Awards began on Sunday night with the express purpose of combating the swelling of the longest-running award season in recent memory with a one-hour pre-recorded case.
The ceremony, which is the only award show voted entirely by actors, is giving up all of the traditional traps – no red carpet, no host, no stage and definitely no afterparties – for a simplified and secure COVID celebration of cinema performances and television over the past year.
Although the actual prizes were awarded in Zoom-style sessions with the nominees days before the broadcast – the actors honored in the 13 categories were required to sign confidentiality agreements before the recordings – the rest of us were unable to find out who won until the acceptance speech broadcast on Sunday night.
But that does not make this year’s field less competitive. “Minari”, which tells the story of a first generation Korean-American family starting again in the rural south; “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, featuring performances by the late Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis; and Spike Lee’s drama about soldiers, “Da 5 Bloods”, lead the group with three nominations each.
Since the Oscar winner for Best Picture, “Nomadland”, didn’t win the night’s top prize – Chloe Zhao’s film set is predominantly non-professional actors — the highlight cast’s trophy is anyone’s game. Films led by critically acclaimed blacks, including “Da 5 Bloods”, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “One Night in Miami”, which were excluded from the race for Best Picture at the Oscars, are competing for the prize, alongside “Minari ”And“ The Trial of the Chicago 7 ”by Aaron Sorkin.
Meanwhile, Netflix’s “The Crown” and “Schitt’s Creek”, taking a final victory lap after showing off their much-praised closing season, lead the nominations among television honorees.
In addition to the winners’ announcements, the show will also feature its unique stories “I am an actor” with “intimate interviews inspired by documentaries” woven throughout the broadcast.
Check out the list of nominations below.
Excellent performance of a set in a film
“Da 5 Bloods”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Minari”
“One Night in Miami”
“The Chicago 7 Trial”
Remarkable performance by an actress in a leading role in a film
Amy Adams, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
Carey Mulligan, “Promising young woman”
Remarkable performance by a male actor in a leading role in a film
Riz Ahmed, “The Sounds of Metal”
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
Steven Yeun, “Minari”
Remarkable performance of a supporting actress in a film
Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Olivia Colman, “The Father”
Youn Yuh-Jung, “Minari”
Helena Zengel, “News of the World”
Outstanding performance of a male actor in a supporting role in a film
Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods”
Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Jared Leto, “The Little Things”
Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami”
Excellent performance by a set in a dramatic series
“The crown”
Exceptional performance by a set in a comedy series
“Dead to me”
“The flight attendant”
“The big”
“Schitt’s Creek”
“Ted Lasso”
Outstanding performance of an actress in a dramatic series
Gillian Anderson, “The Crown”
Olivia Colman, “The Crown”
Emma Corrin, “The Crown”
Julia Garner, “Ozark”
Laura Linney, “Ozark”
Excellent performance by a male actor in a dramatic series
Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
Sterling K. Brown, “This is Us”
Josh O’Connor, “The Crown”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Regé-Jean Page, “Bridgerton”
Outstanding performance of an actress in a comedy series
Christina Applegate, “Dead To Me”
Linda Cardellini, “Dead To Me”
Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”
Annie Murphy, “Schitt’s Creek”
Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek”
Outstanding performance of a male actor in a comedy series
Nicholas Hoult, “The Great”
Dan Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”
Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”
Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”
Ramy Youssef, “Ramy”
Outstanding performance of an actress in a television movie or limited series
Cate Blanchett, “Mrs. America”
Michaela Coel, “I May Destroy You”
Nicole Kidman, “The Undoing”
Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Queen’s Gambit”
Kerry Washington, “Little Fires Everywhere”
Outstanding performance of a male actor in a television movie or limited series
Bill Camp, “The Queen’s Gambit”
Daveed Diggs, “Hamilton”
Hugh Grant, “The Undoing”
Ethan Hawke, “The Good Lord Bird”
Mark Ruffalo, “I Know This Much Is True”
Excellent action performance by a set of stuntmen in a film
“World News”
WINNER: “Wonder Woman 1984”
“Mulan”
“Da 5 Bloods”
“The Chicago 7 Trial”
Excellent action performance for a set of stunts in a comedy or drama series
“The Boys”
“Cobra Kai”
“Lovecraft Country”
WINNER: “The Mandalorian”
“Westworld”
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