With tight races for Lead Actor and Lead Actress, suspense ran excessive earlier than Netflix‘s two-hour no-longer ad-free thirty first annual Display screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday evening, the place swearing was allowed. The SAG Awards 2025 was hosted by Kristen Bell (additionally a nominee this 12 months for her present “No person Desires This”), streamed reside globally from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Corridor.
As a rule, SAG winners repeat on the Oscars. Of the highest 5 SAG prizes (Ensemble Forged, Main Actress, Main Actor, Supporting Actor) 4 of final 12 months’s winners additionally went on to win the Academy Award. Eventual Finest Image winner “Oppenheimer” led the sector with wins for Finest Forged, Male Actor in a Main Position (Cillian Murphy) and Male Actor in a Supporting Position (Robert Downey Jr.), which repeated on the Oscars.
However Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), who made historical past as the primary Indigenous SAG winner for Finest Actress, went on to lose the Oscar to Emma Stone (“Poor Issues”).
This 12 months the SAG Awards unfold the love. The shock of the evening among the many movement image winners was Timothée Chalamet’s Main Actor win for “A Full Unknown.” Chalamet thanked his mom, and stated that over 5 1/2 years “he poured every little thing I had into taking part in this incomparable artist Bob Dylan…I’m in pursuit of greatness, I need to be one of many greats.”
This marks Chalamet’s first win for “A Full Unknown.” Earlier than this, “The Brutalist” star Adrien Brody took the Drama Golden Globe, the Critics Selection, and the BAFTA, beating “Conclave” star Ralph Fiennes on his house turf. “The Brutalist” and “Depraved” gained nothing on the Spirits or SAG. However Brody and director Brady Corbet might nonetheless win on March 2, and each movies will gather some craft wins, together with “Conclave.”
We won’t know the winners till the Oscar present on ABC March 2.
At SAG, “Conclave” gained Forged in a Movement Image, which can correlate to sturdy help from the actors department. Whereas the SAG Awards are extra mainstream than the Oscars, “Conclave” additionally gained Finest Movie on the BAFTAs, which reveals sturdy worldwide help, in addition to Tailored Screenplay on the USC Scripters. Director Edward Berger didn’t obtain a Directing Oscar nomination.
On the Oscars, “Conclave” goes face to face with “Anora,” which gained the Critics Selection award and Indie Spirits in addition to guild prizes on the WGA, DGA, and PGA. These wins are indicative of a possible Oscar Finest Image victory.
The Finest Actress Oscar race can also be nonetheless aggressive. Demi Moore gained the Golden Globe, CCAs and gave one other sturdy speech at SAG, however “Anora” star Mikey Madison gained each the BAFTAs and Spirits: each teams have appreciable overlap with Oscar voters.
In her speech, Moore recalled getting her actor’s fairness card in 1978. “It gave me which means and objective and course. I used to be alone, no blueprint for all times. I knew nothing about performing, watched and listened…Don’t lose sight of the human connections. That’s the work we do.”
Supporting Actor and Actress SAG wins went to the frontrunners who’re sweeping the awards teams, Zoe Saldaña for “Emilia Pérez” and Kieran Culkin for “A Actual Ache.” “I’m proud to be a part of a union that enables me to be who I’m,” stated Saldaña. “I imagine all people has the precise to be who they’re.”
Their wins on Oscar evening appear inevitable.
