Screen Actors Guild (SAG) film nominations: ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ Ma Rainey,’ ‘Minari,’ ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ lead; Chadwick Boseman makes history

Erik Anderson February 4, 2021

The nominations for the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Motion Picture were announced this morning with some eerily similar and some drastically different choices than yesterday’s Golden Globe shockers.

Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Minari and The Trial of the Chicago 7 led the film nominees on Thursday morning with three nominations each, including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. One Night in Miami also earned a nomination there, along with Leslie Odom, Jr. for Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

While Da 5 Bloods earned three nominations – the other two were for Chadwick Boseman and for the film’s stunt team – but missing once again was big critics’ winner Delroy Lindo. The nominees for Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture were Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal, Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Anthony Hopkins for The Father, Gary Oldman for Mank and Steven Yeun for Minari.

Speaking of Chadwick Boseman, the late actor made SAG history this morning earning four Screen Actors Guild nominations all in the film categories, two individual and two as a part of the casts of Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He is the first actor to be nominated for four SAG awards in a single year in a single field.

Three of the biggest surprises at the Golden Globes found themselves repeating here at SAG today. Young German star Helena Zengel was nominated for Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her largely wordless role in News of the World. Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) overcame tough competition like Ellen Burstyn (Pieces of a Woman), after her lead nomination at the Globes yesterday and previous SAG and Oscar winner Jared Leto was nominated for Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his creepy could be serial killer in the very late breaking The Little Things. In earning those nominations they shut out the likes of Amanda Seyfried in Mank and Paul Raci in Sound of Metal.

Other big misses included Sophia Loren (The Life Ahead) and Andra Day (The United States vs Billie Holiday), missing out on a lead nomination to Amy Adams in Hillbilly Elegy.

Here is the full list of motion picture nominations for the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which were announced on the SAG Awards Instagram live this morning by Daveed Diggs and Lily Collins. The SAG Awards will be presented on Sunday, April 4 and simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, April 4, 2021, at 9pm (ET) / 6pm (PT).

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Da 5 Bloods

CHADWICK BOSEMAN / Stormin’ Norman
PAUL WALTER HAUSER / Simon
NGUYEN NGOC LAM / Quan
LE Y LAN / Tien Luu
NORM LEWIS / Eddie
DELROY LINDO / Paul
JONATHAN MAJORS / David
VAN VERONICA NGO / Hanoi Hannah
JOHNNY TRI NGUYEN / Vinh Tran
JASPER PAAKKONEN / Seppo
CLARKE PETERS / Otis
SANDY HUONG PHAM / Michon
JEAN RENO / Desroche
MELANIE THIERRY / Hedy
ISIAH WHITLOCK JR. / Melvin

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

CHADWICK BOSEMAN / Levee
JONNY COYNE / Sturdyvant
VIOLA DAVIS / Ma Rainey
COLMAN DOMINGO / Cutler
MICHAEL POTTS / Slow Drag
GLYNN TURMAN / Toledo

Minari

NOEL KATE CHO / Anne
YERI HAN / Monica
SCOTT HAZE / Billy
ALAN KIM / David
WILL PATTON / Paul
STEVEN YEUN / Jacob
YUH-JUNG YOUN / Soonja

One Night in Miami

KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR / Malcolm X
BEAU BRIDGES / Mr. Carlton
LAWRENCE GILLIARD JR. / Drew “Bundini” Brown
ELI GOREE / Cassius Clay
ALDIS HODGE / Jim Brown
MICHAEL IMPERIOLI / Angelo Dundee
JOAQUINA KALUKANGO / Betty X
LESLIE ODOM JR. / Sam Cooke
LANCE REDDICK / Kareem X
NICOLETTE ROBINSON / Barbara Cooke

The Trial of the Chicago 7

YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II / Bobby Seale
SACHA BARON COHEN / Abbie Hoffman
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT / Richard Schultz
MICHAEL KEATON / Ramsey Clark
FRANK LANGELLA / Judge Julius Hoffman
JOHN CARROLL LYNCH / David Dellinger
EDDIE REDMAYNE / Tom Hayden
MARK RYLANCE / William Kunstler
ALEX SHARP / Rennie Davis
JEREMY STRONG / Jerry Rubin

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Minari

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture

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

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Jared Leto – The Little Things
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

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 by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Da 5 Bloods
Mulan
News of the World
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Wonder Woman 1984

Image credit: David Lee/NETFLIX

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.