The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Legal drama wins top award
Netflix legal drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
For the first time in the 27-year history of the SAG Awards, the ceremony was pre-recorded and the TV broadcast was just an hour long.
There was no red carpet due to the pandemic and, while much about the show was different to previous years, the 2021 SAG Awards still honoured excellence in TV and film.
The Trial Of The Chicago 7, which tells the true story of a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters accused of attempting to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, won outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.
Members of Chicago 7’s ensemble cast – including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Keaton and Frank Langella – gathered virtually to accept the prize.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom co-stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman won the leading actor and actress awards.
Boseman died in August last year aged 43 following a battle with colon cancer.
A rare British victory at the virtual SAG Awards came in the form of Daniel Kaluuya’s triumph in the supporting actor category. He won for playing a Black Panther leader in Judas And The Black Messiah.
In the supporting female actor category, South Korea’s Youn Yuh-jung won for her portrayal of a wily grandmother in moving family drama Minari.
In the TV categories,
The Crown won the ensemble in a drama series prize while Schitt’s Creek was honoured with the comedy equivalent.
Gillian Anderson won in the female actress category for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher.
The male actor category went to Ozark’s Jason Bateman.
There was more success for Canadian show Schitt’s Creek when star Catherine O’Hara won female actor in a comedy series.
Ted Lasso’s Jason Sudeikis picked up the male actor in a comedy series gong.
Mark Ruffalo won male actor in a television movie or miniseries 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.