Crowning Glory...
Gillian leads royal gong grab as hit drama rules US awards show
ITWAS the night MargaretThatcher stole the vote from the Queen – but the cast of The Crown still reigned supreme at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Gillian Anderson, 52, took the best female actor in a drama series accolade for her role as the prime minister in the Netflix hit.
The American pipped co-stars Olivia Colman, who plays the Queen, and Emma Corrin, who portrays Princess Diana.
Gillian told Sunday night’s virtual ceremony: “To Queenie Olivia, you have won every award under the sun and to Emma, you deserve this along with me for such a mature and accomplished performance.
“And to the entire The Crown ensemble, who in my eyes do not get enough attention for all the depth that you bring to every episode.”
The cast of The Crown also bagged the ensemble prize for the drama’s fourth series.
Olivia, 47, gave the acceptance speech via Zoom in the Los Angeles show alongside Emma, 25, and co-stars Josh O’Connor, 30, Tobias Menzies, 47, and Marion Bailey, 69.
She paid tribute to series creator Peter Morgan, saying: “Thank you for writing so many lovely parts, we all loved it. Let’s do it again.”
Another British success was Daniel Kaluuya, 32, who triumphed in the supporting actor category for playing a Black Panther leader in Judas And The Black Messiah.
Sacha Baron Cohen, 49, Mark Rylance, 61, and Eddie Redmayne, 39, won the outstanding cast in motion picture award for The Trial Of The Chicago 7.
The film, a true story about anti-Vietnam War protesters accused of trying to incite riots at the
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Boseman, 43, won the leading actor and actress awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, about a revered blues singer and a trumpeter. Chadwick’s wife Simone accepted the award in his memory and paid tribute to the film’s cast and crew. Schitt’s Creek star Catherine O’Hara won the gong for best female actor in a comedy series, but the Canadian show was denied a clean category sweep. Jason Sudeikis won the best male actor award for Ted Lasso. Following controversy over the hoodie he wore at the Golden Globes, a defiant Jason, 45, donned a jumper bearing the slogan My Body My Choice for his virtual acceptance speech. The actor plays an amateur US football coach put in charge of a Premier League team in Ted Lasso. Mark Ruffalo won the male actor in a television movie or miniseries award for playing identical twins in I Know This Much Is True.
Anya Taylor-Joy took home the actress equivalent for Netflix’s chess smash hit The Queen’s Gambit. British nominees who missed out on SAG awards included Vanessa Kirby, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed and Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Two SAG awards in the stunt categories were handed out before the televised broadcast. Superhero movie Wonder Woman 1984 won stunt ensemble in a motion picture while Disney+ series The Mandalorian took home the TV equivalent.
The ceremony was prerecorded for the first time in the awards’ 27-year history and the US TV broadcast was just an hour long. There may have been no real red carpet, but stars including Dame Helen Mirren, 75, Nicole Kidman, 53, and Lily Collins, 32, turned on the glamour in stunning gowns.