Depraved topped nominations to the thirty first Display Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday (Jan 8), touchdown a number one 5 nominations together with finest ensemble, and particular person nods for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey.
Out-of-control wildfires that swept throughout Los Angeles and Southern California on Tuesday night time compelled the Display Actors Guild to cancel its plans to announce the nominations reside Wednesday morning. The nominations have been as a substitute issued by press launch by SAG, which final yr started a multiyear cope with Netflix to stream the awards.
The smash hit musical Depraved noticed its Oscar probabilities rise with the nominations to the SAG Awards, probably the most predictive Academy Awards bellwethers. The film’s massive morning – it even scored a nod for stunt ensemble – got here after a celebratory night time, too. The movie was honoured by the Nationwide Board of Evaluate Awards in New York on Tuesday.
The opposite nominees for finest ensemble are Anora, Conclave, Emilia Perez and A Full Unknown.
It was an particularly robust displaying for the Bob Dylan drama A Full Unknown. It got here away with 4 nominations, together with Timothee Chalamet for finest male actor, and supporting nods for each Edward Norton and Monica Barbaro.
The perfect male lead nominees have been largely as anticipated: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Daniel Craig (“Queer”), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Chalamet.
Coming off her rousing victory on the Golden Globes, Demi Moore was among the many nominees for finest feminine actor in a number one position for The Substance. She was joined by Erivo, Emilia Perez’s breakout Karla Sofía Gascon, Mikey Madison of Anora and Pamela Anderson for The Final Showgirl.
SNUBBED STARS
That surprisingly neglected some massive names. Angelina Jolie (Maria) missed out, as did Nicole Kidman (Babygirl). A couple of of essentially the most acclaimed feminine actors of the yr, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Onerous Truths) and Globe winner Fernanda Torres (I’m Nonetheless Right here), additionally have been neglected.
The Final Showgirl had extra to have fun, too, with an sudden nomination for Jamie Lee Curtis in supporting feminine actor. Her fellow nominees are Barbaro, Grande, Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) and Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Perez).
Jeremy Sturdy was nominated for his supporting efficiency as Roy Cohn within the Donald Trump movie The Apprentice, however his co-star, Sebastian Stan, went unnominated for each The Apprentice and his Golden Globe-winning position in A Totally different Man. The opposite nominees for finest supporting male actor have been Bailey, Norton, Yura Borisov (Anora) and the class frontrunner, Kieran Culkin (A Actual Ache).
A couple of broadly forecast supporting performances have been snubbed there, too, together with Denzel Washington (Gladiator II) and Man Pearce (The Brutalist).
PREDICTIVE POWER OF THE SAGS
The SAG Awards are arguably essentially the most telling Oscar forecast there’s. Their picks don’t all the time align precisely with these of the movie academy, however they usually come very near mirroring them.
The final three finest ensemble winners – Oppenheimer, All the pieces In every single place All At As soon as and CODA – all went on to win finest image on the Academy Awards. All however one of many SAG appearing winners of the final three years has additionally gained on the Oscars. The only real exception was Lily Gladstone, who gained SAG’s award for feminine actor final yr for Killers Of The Flower Moon, however the Oscar trophy went to Emma Stone (Poor Issues).
In all probability, the Oscar area will look rather a lot just like the SAG nominees. Whereas some neglected performances would possibly nonetheless land an Oscar nomination, any eventual Academy Award winner, together with one of the best image recipient, is sort of certainly coming from these nominated Wednesday.
That is unhealthy information for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which triumphed on the Globes however missed out on a SAG ensemble nomination. Finest image contender Sing Sing additionally got here away with a single SAG nod.
In nominations additionally introduced Wednesday, the Administrators Guild favoured a lot of the similar movies. For excellent directorial achievement, it nominated Sean Baker (Anora), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Perez), Edward Berger (Conclave), James Mangold (A Full Unknown) and Corbet (The Brutalist). That neglected Depraved filmmaker Jon M Chu, in addition to Dune: Half Two director Denis Villeneuve. The guild additionally did not nominate a feminine filmmaker, like The Substance director Coralie Fargeat.
These nominations solely additional muddied the waters in a hard-to-predict finest image race. Hardly ever does a movie win the Academy Awards’ high prize with out a DGA nomination. The one exceptions in latest historical past are Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and CODA (2022). That signifies that in addition to Depraved did with the display screen actors, it nonetheless cannot be referred to as an Oscar favorite.
SHOGUN CONTINUES TO DOMINATE
Coming off sweeps on the Emmys and the Golden Globes, FX’s Shogun continued to run roughshod by way of the competitors, touchdown a number one 5 nominations Wednesday, together with finest ensemble and particular person nods for Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano.
Additionally faring nicely have been The Bear (nominations for Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Liza Colon-Zayas), Hacks (Jean Good) and The Diplomat (Keri Russell, Allison Janney).
The Display Actors Guild Awards will likely be held on Feb 23 on the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The ceremony, hosted by Kristen Bell, will likely be streamed reside on Netflix. Along with the aggressive awards, Jane Fonda will likely be offered with the guild’s Life Achievement Award.
