Oppenheimer won the marquee Cast in a Motion Picture prize as the 30th annual SAG Awards were presented Saturday, and its star Cillian Murphy might have wrestled Oscar front-runner status away from Paul Giamatti by taking Male Actor in a Leading Role win.
Lily Gladstone was cemented as the favorite for the Best Actress Oscar, winning Female Actor in a Leading Role for Killers of the Flower Moon at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Robert Downey Jr won the Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Oppenheimer in a mini-upset. But the evening’s first film award wasn’t much of a surprise as Da’vine Joy Randolph continued her awards-season dominance with a Supporting win for The Holdovers.
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The top TV prize of Ensemble in a Drama Series went to HBO’s now-wrapped Succession, surprising few. But none of its actors took individual awards.
Elizabeth Debicki surprised with a win for playing Princess Diana in The Crown, beating Succession awards kingpin Sarah Snook and others. Earlier, Pedro Pascal pulled off something of an upset by taking Male Actor in a Drama Series for HBO’s The Last of Us over Kieran Culkin and other Succession stars.
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The Bear and Beef continued their Emmy-laden awards-season runs tonight with the FX series winning Ensemble in a Comedy Series and stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri taking Male Actor and Female Actor in a Comedy. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun continued the big awards year for Netflix’s Beef and its stars by taking Female Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series.
The Stunt Ensemble prizes were presented during the pre-show ceremony, with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 and The Last of Us taking the respective film and TV hardware.
Oppenheimer and The Bear finished the night with a leading three SAG Awards each, with Beef and The Last of Us being the only other multiple winners, taking two each.
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The In Memoriam segment reminded of the screen giants and lesser-known actors we lost during the past year. Among them were Richard Roundtree, Glynis Johns, David Soul, Angus Cloud, David McCallum, Ray Stevenson, Jim Brown and Dick Butkus, Julian Sands, Burt Young, Adan Canto, Ron Cephas Jones, Maurice Hines, Chita Rivera, Tom Smothers, Suzanne Somers, Richard Moll, Treat Williams, Michael Gambon, Tina Turner, Paul Reubens, Lance Reddick, Lee Sun-kyun, Piper Laurie, Tom Sizemore, Joyce Randolph, Ryan O’Neal, Glenda Jackson, Andre Braugher, Alan Arkin, Carl Weathers, Matthew Perry and Harry Belafonte.
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Vying for the marquee Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture prize tonight are American Fiction, Barbie, The Color Purple, Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer. The category is SAG’s version of Best Picture and, as often as not, has produced some interesting upsets that sent movies such as Parasite, CODA and others on to Best Picture Oscar glory. All of SAG’s Ensemble nominees except Color Purple also are up for the top Academy Award.
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Spanning 15 categories in motion pictures and television, including stunt actors, the SAG Awards had no host but plenty of A-list talent nominated and presenting. The latter lineup included Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Aniston and a Devil Wears Prada reunion of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt.
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And there was a special career honoree tonight: EGOT winner Barbra Streisand received SAG’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Such a wonderful award to get because you know you’re gonna get it. … You all know what I mean,” she said in accepting. Streisand went on to recall her earliest roles and the influence of “her first crush” Marlon Brando and others from “that make-believe world. I didn’t like reality — I wanted to be in movies. … Somehow, some way, it all came true.”
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She added: “I want to thank SAG-AFTRA and to say to my fellow actors and directors. I love working with you.
Earlier, stunt honors were awarded on tonight’s red carpet, with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One winning for film and The Last of Us winning for TV.
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Here are all the winners so far at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards, followed by the remaining nominees:
Winners
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureOppenheimerCasey Affleck as Boris PashEmily Blunt as Kitty OppenheimerKenneth Branagh as Niels BohrMatt Damon as Leslie GrovesRobert Downey Jr. as Lewis StraussJosh Hartnett as Ernest LawrenceRami Malek as David HillCillian Murphy as J. Robert OppenheimerFlorence Pugh as Jean Tatlock
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading RoleLily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart – “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleCillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer – “Oppenheimer”
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama SeriesSuccessionNicholas Braun as Greg HirschJuliana Canfield as Jess JordanBrian Cox as Logan RoyKieran Culkin as Roman RoyDagmara Dominczyk as Karolina NovotneyPeter Friedman as Frank VernonJustine Lupe as WillaMatthew Macfadyen as Tom WambsgansArian Moayed as Stewy HosseiniScott Nicholson as Colin StilesDavid Rasche as Karl MullerAlan Ruck as Connor RoyAlexander Skarsgård as Lukas MatssonJ. Smith-Cameron as Gerri KellmanSarah Snook as Shiv RoyFisher Stevens as Hugo BakerJeremy Strong as Kendall RoyZoë Winters as Kerry Castellabate
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama SeriesElizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana – “The Crown”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting RoleRobert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss – “Oppenheimer”
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesThe BearLionel Boyce as MarcusJose Cervantes Jr. Sydney AdamuAbby Elliott Natalie BerzattoRichard Esteras Manny Edwin Lee Gibson Ebraheim Molly Gordon Claire Corey Hendrix SweepsMatty Matheson Neil FakEbon Moss-Bachrach Richard “Richie” Jerimovich Oliver Platt Jimmy “Cicero” KalinowskiJeremy Allen White as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited SeriesSteven Yeun as Danny Cho – “Beef”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting RoleDa’vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb – “The Holdovers”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesPedro Pascal as Joel – “The Last of Us”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy SeriesAyo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu – “The Bear”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited SeriesAli Wong as Amy Lau – “Beef”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy SeriesJeremy Allen White as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto – “The Bear”
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion PictureMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television SeriesThe Last of Us
