On Saturday night, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer took home three major awards at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, adding more industry awards to its formidable war chest.
Cast members including Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt took to the stage to accept the film’s highest honor, the SAG Award for Best Ensemble. Co-star Kenneth Branagh said the two were last together in July, when they walked out of the biopic’s premiere in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike.
“This is a full-circle moment for us,” Branagh said.
So far, “Oppenheimer” has won top honors at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Critics’ Choice Awards, and is considered a frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar. Last year’s Best Picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once” also scored its first SAG win, but of the past 10 winners in the ensemble category, only a few have gone on to Oscar glory. There are only 5 works.
The SAG Awards have a much better track record when it comes to delineating individual acting races, as each of the last two years’ winners have been perfectly aligned with the Oscars. In the Best Actor race, “Oppenheimer” star Murphy beat out Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”) and Bradley Cooper (“The Holdovers”) for his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project. Maestro”) won the match. Developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
And while Poor Things’ Emma Stone won the BAFTA for Best Actress last weekend, Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone won her husband (Leonardo DiCaprio). She won at SAG for her role as an Osage woman whose family was murdered by a gangster. and his uncle (Robert De Niro).
In the support race, SAG honored DaVine Joy Randolph for her role as a grieving school cook in “The Holdovers” and Downey for her performance as a political operative in “Oppenheimer.” Both stars have dominated the season and will almost certainly be on their way to victory on Oscar night.
“Why me, why now? Why do things seem to be going my way?” Downey joked in his latest acceptance speech, “Unlike the other nominees, I’m I never get tired of hearing his voice,” he added.
Randolph tried to inspire his fellow actors with his speech.
“How lucky are we to do what we do?” she said. “I say to all the actors out there waiting for their chance, your life can change in a day.”
Elsewhere at the ceremony, Barbra Streisand received a lifetime achievement award in what appeared to be a reference to current world affairs. Noting that Hollywood was built by studio chiefs like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. I dream of a world where the past is a thing of the past.”
But the actress, filmmaker, and singer primarily focused on her love of movies, and fondly recalled going to the movies at a theater near Brooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High School. “That make-believe world was so much more fun than anything I’d ever experienced,” she said, explaining that she didn’t like reality. She said, “I wanted to be in a movie.”
The actress, who went on to become an actress, recalled that her first film, Funny Girl (1968), set the course for her career, thanks to director William Wyler and cinematographer Harry Stradling. . “They had no problem with young women having opinions,” she added.
The complete list of SAG winners is below.
movie
excellent cast
“Oppenheimer”
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Leading actor
Cillian Murphy “Oppenheimer”
read interview.
Leading actress
Lily Gladstone “Killers of the Flower Moon”
read interview.
supporting actor
Robert Downey Jr. “Oppenheimer”
read interview.
supporting actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph “The Holdovers”
read interview.
movie stunt ensemble
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1”
tv set
drama series ensemble
“Inheritance”
comedy series ensemble
“bear”
actor in drama series
Pedro Pascal “The Last of Us”
drama series actress
Elizabeth Debicki “The Crown”
comedy series actors
Jeremy Allen White “The Bear”
comedy series actress
Ayo Edebiri “The Bear”
Actor in a TV movie or limited series
Steven Yeun “Beef”
actress in a television movie or limited series
Ali Wong “Beef”
TV Series Stunt Ensemble
“The Last of Us”
