The 27th edition of the
SAG Awards
was held last night on April 4 at a telematics gala in which the late Chadwick Boseman
(Black Panther)
won the award for best leading actor for his role in
The Mother of the Blues.
With that award, he becomes the main favorite at the Oscar to the detriment of Anthony Hopkins
(The father).
As best actress, Viola Davis, also thanks to
The mother of the blues,
won her fifth award given by the Screen Actors Guild, and greatly opens the career of the Oscars (which will be delivered on April 25) in that category: Davis has only one (as a secondary for
Fences),
Frances McDormand (candidate for
Nomadland
) and Carey Mulligan
(A promising young woman)
are losing strength and the possibility of Andra Day, protagonist of
The United States against Billie Holiday,
also opens up
.
Sacha Baron Cohen, Danny Flaherty, Eddie Redmayne, Jeremy Strong and Mark Rylance, in 'The Chicago 7 Trial'.
In the video, trailer of the film.
The Screen Actors Guild awarded the award for best film cast to
Aaron Sorkin's
The Trial of the 7 Chicago,
which boosts his Oscar career, even though he is still behind
Nomadland
in the betting
.
Last year this cast award went to
Bong Joon-ho's
Parasites
, and it was a wake-up call to the clear possibility, later confirmed, that it would win the Oscar for best picture.
The Chicago 7
and
Nomadland trial
are tied to six Oscar nominations behind
Mank
, who achieved 10. In secondary performances, the winners have been Daniel Kaluuya
(Judas and the black messiah)
and Youn Yu-jung, the Veteran actress who plays
Minari's
grandmother
.
To end the cinema, the best action cast has been for
Wonder Woman 1984.
In the last decade on five occasions the film that won the award for best cast has subsequently won the main award at the Oscars.
This year at the Golden Globes she won
Nomadland
and at the Writers Guild
Awards
for the screen she won
A Promising Girl.
Last year the four performers who won at the SAG repeated at the Oscars.
In 2019, by contrast, Regina King won the Oscar for supporting actress with
The Beale Street Blues
without ever being a SAG nominee.
Gillian Anderson, as Margaret Thatcher.
In the video, trailer of the fourth season
On television there were no big surprises.
The award for best cast in a drama series went to
The Crown
and the trophy in comedy went to
Schitt's Creek.
In acting in a comedy, the best television actor was Jason Sudeikis for
Ted Lasso
and the best actress, Catherine O'Hara for
Schitt's Creek,
accolades that have already been won at the Golden Globes. In drama, the winners were Jason Bateman for
Orzak
and Gillian Anderson, for her Margaret Thatcher from
The Crown.
In the miniseries or telefilm section, the actors who took the SAGs were Mark Ruffalo
(The Undeniable Truth)
and Anya Taylor-Joy
(Lady's Gambit).
The best cast of action went to
The Mandalorian.