As awards season lastly wraps up, a deal with was on supply within the second to final weekend of occasions. This 12 months, the Display screen Actors Guild Awards fell after closing Oscar voting had ended, which means that attendees at Sunday evening’s present seemingly felt a lot freer to debate who and what they assume will win on the Academy Awards on March 2.
Given the momentum constructed off of its wins on the PGA Awards, DGA Awards, Critics Selection Awards, Impartial Spirit Awards, and a Greatest Actress win for star Mikey Madison on the BAFTA Awards, there was sturdy notion that not solely was “Anora” the favourite for Greatest Ensemble, however that the movie’s younger star was set to beat “The Substance” actress Demi Moore for Feminine Actor in a Main Function in a Movement Image in an upset.
In fact, that didn’t occur, with the ceremony as soon as once more reminding everybody to anticipate the sudden this awards season. Not solely did Moore triumph (virtually a given looking back contemplating what her efficiency within the physique horror movie has to say about growing older as an actress,) however “A Full Unknown” star Timothée Chalamet lastly received one win over “The Brutalist” star Adrien Brody, making a second Greatest Actor Oscar for the latter turn out to be much less of a certain factor.
And to cap all of it off, “Conclave” gained the SAG Award for Greatest Ensemble proper on the heels of its Greatest Movie on the BAFTAs 2025. A late stage surge for the papal election drama has confirmed to be particularly enjoyable, given how a lot it represents life imitating artwork.
Very like how Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and firm see completely different candidates for pope being taken down one after the other till an sudden contender pulls by on the finish, at the least half of the Greatest Image Oscar nominees have confronted some degree of public scrutiny, resulting in this rollercoaster trip that noticed the favored Focus Options launch go from being counted out to now arguably turning into the frontrunner.
However a few of these notorious whisper campaigns haven’t stopped simply because voting is over. On the cocktail reception contained in the Shrine Auditorium, held earlier than the SAG Awards have been handed out, there was already discuss of which star doesn’t truly get together with their director, and hypothesis over which A-list actor was the one who “The Apprentice” director Ali Abbasi was reportedly inappropriate with at CAA’s Golden Globes after-party in January.
Curiously sufficient, a earlier version of that annual occasion was introduced up on the present, when Jamie Lee Curtis talked about catching COVID from Colin Farrell as she gave him his SAG Award for Male Actor in a Tv Film or Restricted Collection for “The Penguin.” Although she referred to the Globes extra broadly, it was reported that the 2023 CAA Golden Globes afterparty was the wrongdoer for them. (Keep in mind: Brendan Gleeson and Michelle Pfeiffer needed to drop out of attending the Critics Selection Awards that 12 months as a result of all of them caught COVID.)
Selena Gomez was additionally the one one of many important “Solely Murders within the Constructing” trio current on the SAG Awards, the place the present received shock wins for Greatest Ensemble in a Comedy Collection and Greatest Male Actor in a Comedy Collection for Martin Quick as a result of, as “Weekend Replace” host Colin Jost prophesied, a number of “SNL 50” attendees caught COVID on the occasion, based on the additionally ailing Steve Martin.
For many who may attend the SAG Awards, the occasion was in the end one of many extra enjoyable reveals of the season. The advantage of the most important Oscar races being so shut is that lots of the gamers had such a protracted streak of barely successful something that an Academy Award now would really feel extra like a welcome shock than anybody movie’s Greatest Image Oscar to lose — even when the winner is “Conclave.”