32nd SAG Actor Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘The Pitt,’ ‘ The Studio’ Take Top Honors
Sinners took home the top film prize at the 32nd SAG Actor Awards. The Ryan Coogler-directed film won Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture with its star, Michael B. Jordan, winning Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role.
Sinners, which had five nominations, entered the SAG Awards as the favorite in the top category despite its main competition, One Battle After Another, entering tonight with DGA and PGA wins, as well as Golden Globe and Critics Choice. Coogler’s vampire epic opened last spring to huge box office numbers on its way to a worldwide haul of $370M, making it one of the highest grossing original films in a decade. This marked Coogler’s second film to win SAG’s top prize after 2018’s Black Panther, making him the only Black director to achieve that feat.
Jordan’s win over Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) stopped the chance for SAG history to be made as no one has ever won back to back awards in the same category from one year to the next. It also presents an interesting bit of potential history as no Best Actor winner has ever won the Oscar with SAG as their only precursor.
Jessie Buckley won Female Actor in a Leading Role for Hamnet, making her the sole acting contender to sweep all precursors this season, having won Critics Choice, Golden Globe and BAFTA prizes before tonight.
The supporting races started to take some shape after each had been split among three performers up to this point. In supporting actor, Sean Penn won for One Battle After Another, following his BAFTA win last week. Critics Choice had gone for Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein while the Golden Globes gave their win to Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value, a performance not nominated by SAG.
Amy Madigan (Weapons) began her precursor run at Critics Choice then lost the Globe to Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another) and was snubbed at BAFTA, where Sinners‘ Wumni Mosaku triumphed. It remains a tougher Oscar prospect for Madigan as the sole nominee for her film opposed to Taylor and Mosaku in the top two films of the season.
In television, this is the last stop for last September’s big Emmy winners Adolescence, The Pitt and The Studio, all of which won PGA Awards the evening prior, continued their wins tonight. At 16, Owen Cooper (Adolescence) became the youngest actor ever to win an individual SAG award, beating out his co-star Stephen Graham. At the Emmys, Graham won in lead while Cooper won supporting but as SAG has no supporting categories for television, all performers compete against each other.
The Studio swept comedy with wins for ensemble, Seth Rogen in lead actor and a posthumous win for Catherine O’Hara in lead actress, making her the first posthumous television winner since Jerry Orbach in 2005 for Law & Order. Rogen accepted the award for O’Hara, who passed away in January.
“I’ve just been marveling over the last few weeks [at] her ability to be generous and kind and gracious, while never ever minimizing her own talents and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing,” he said. “She knew she could destroy, and she wanted to destroy every day on set.”
The Pitt won drama ensemble and lead actor for star Noah Wyle, who made television history as the only male actor ever to win the Emmy, Critics Choice, Golden Globe, Television Critics Association and SAG in a single season.
The awards are voted on by the approximately 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, the largest guild and voting body in the film and television industry.
Legendary actor Harrison Ford is set to receive the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award, presented by Woody Harrelson. The actor, whose career has spanned six decades in television and films that have grossed more than $10B at the box office, gave a quietly passionate and moving speech about his early beginnings as an actor
“I struggled for about 15 years, going from acting job, then carpentry and back to acting, until I finally got a part in a wildly successful film. None of this happened on my own,” he said, mentioning his Star Wars director George Lucas and Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg, as well as the late casting director Fred Roos and Patricia McQueeney, his longtime manager as instrumental in his early career. “They were both incredibly persistent, who supported me at a time when I really needed it. I would not be here without them.”
As emotional as he got, as did the audience, Ford didn’t let the opportunity pass for a bit of levity as well.
“I feel incredibly grateful for this kind attention, but to be clear, I’m also quite humbled. I’m in a room of actors, many of whom are here because they’ve been nominated to receive a prize for their amazing work,” he said. “Well, I’m here to receive a prize for being alive. It’s a little weird to be getting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the half point of my career. It’s a little early isn’t it? I’m still a working actor.”
The night was hosted by Kristen Bell for the second time and once again held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and featured a live band for the first time, led by music director Rickey Minor. Sinners star Miles Caton performed a version of “This Little Light of Mine” post-In Memoriam.
With limited commercial breaks on Netflix, with four montage packages, about medical dialogue, physical comedy, troublemaker characters and the art of the romcom, featured clips and talking heads. In an unusual move, the showrunners split the television and film awards in half, with TV at the top and film closing, rather than both interspersed.
The signature “I’m an Actor” opening this year included Kristen Wiig, Delroy Lindo, Michael J. Fox, Teyana Taylor and Kate Hudson.
Here are the winners of the 32nd SAG Actor Awards.
MOTION PICTURE
Cast in a Motion Picture: Sinners
Nominees: Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another
Male Actor in a Leading Role: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Nominees: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme; Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another; Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon; Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
Female Actor in a Leading Role: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Nominees: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue; Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another; Emma Stone, Bugonia
Male Actor in a Supporting Role: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Nominees: Miles Caton, Sinners; Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another; Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein; Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Amy Madigan, Weapons
Other nominees: Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme; Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good; Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners; Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (see full list of recipients below)
Other nominees: F1, Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Sinners
TELEVISION
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series: The Pitt (HBO Max)
Other nominees: The Diplomat (Netflix); Landman (Paramount+) ; Severance (AppleTV); The White Lotus (HBO)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series: Noah Wyle, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Other nominees: Sterling K. Brown, Paradise (Hulu); Billy Crudup, The Morning Show (AppleTV); Walton Goggins, The White Lotus (HBO); Gary Oldman, Slow Horses (AppleTV)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series: Keri Russell, The Diplomat (Netflix)
Other nominees: Britt Lower, Severance (AppleTV); Parker Posey, The White Lotus (HBO Max); Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus (AppleTV); Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus (HBO Max)
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series: The Studio (AppleTV)
Other nominees: Abbott Elementary (ABC); The Bear (FX); Hacks (HBO Max); Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series: Seth Rogen, The Studio (AppleTV)
Other nominees: Ike Barinholtz, The Studio (AppleTV); Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This (Netflix); Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside (Netflix); Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series: Catherine O’Hara, The Studio (AppleTV)
Other nominees: Kathryn Hahn, The Studio (AppleTV); Jenna Ortega, Wednesday (Netflix); Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max) ; Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale (AppleTV)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series: Owen Cooper, Adolescence (Netflix)
Other nominees: Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit (Netflix); Stephen Graham, Adolescence (Netflix) ; Charlie Hunnam, Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix); Matthew Rhys, The Beast in Me (Netflix)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series: Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex (FX)
Other nominees: Claire Danes, The Beast in Me (Netflix); Erin Doherty, Adolescence (Netflix); Sarah Snook, All Her Fault (Peacock); Christine Tremarco, Adolescence (Netflix)
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series: The Last of Us (HBO)
Other nominees: Andor (Disney+); Landman (Paramount+); Squid Game (Netflix); Stranger Things (Netflix)
Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning stunt ensemble winners:
Joel Adrian
Izaiah Aduhene
Ray Armstrong
Scott Armstrong
Oliver Bailey
Russell Balogh
Marco Bianco
Tamiko Brownlee
Kabelo Chalatsane
Lee Charles
David Cheung
Paul Clark
Jonathan Cohen
Lucy Cork
Campbell Dalziel
Sanda Damba
Wade Eastwood
Matthew Fraser-Dawson
Kyle Freemantle
Luke Gomes
Martin Gordon
Allan Hewitt
Theo Hill
Nick Homewood
Jack Jagodka
Igor Karpovich
Joe Kennard
Bogdan Kumshatsky
Mike Li
John Macdonald
Kai Martin
Stefan Mihalache
Alexis Naughton
Cali Nelle
Haruka Oshima
Tomas Paredes
Stevie Parker
Tilly Powell
Ralph Ridge
Tom Rodgers
Luke Scott
Jon Slayer
Mike Snow
Leos Stransky
Malachi Templeton
James Unsworth
Matthew Van Leeve
David Van Zeyl
Ruda Vrba
Martin Wilde
Jahgo Williams
The Last of Us stunt ensemble winners:
Kelsey Andries
Marshall Bingham
Leanne Buchanan
Adam Chase
Jennifer Clarke
Cassandra Ebner
Denton Edge
Marny Eng
Rebecca Ferguson
Jessica Firman
Naomi Frenette
Evelyn Gonda
Adrian Hein
Taylor Henrich
Louise Hradsky
Kailey Hyman
Matt Kennedy
Jack Kingsley
Mark Krysko
Anthony Moyer
Matt Mylrea
Gerald Paetz
Jared Payne
Mackenzie Payton
Shawn Robidoux
Andrea Ross
Ian Rozylo
Jeff Sanca
Quentin Schneider
Jonathan Vellner
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