‘Everything’ dominates at SAG Awards
The unlikely awards season juggernaut “Everything Everywhere All at Once” marched on Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and even gathered steam with wins for best ensemble, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Curtis’ win for best supporting female actor was one of the most surprising of the night, coming over the longtime favorite, Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), who had seemed to be on a clear path to becoming the first actor to win an Oscar for a performance in a Marvel movie. Quan won for best supporting male actor, the first Asian actor to win that SAG Award category.
The actors guild lent some clarity to the lead categories in the Oscar races. Though some have seen best actress as a toss up between Yeoh and Cate Blanchett (“Tar”), Yeoh took home the SAG Award for best female lead performance. Best actor has been one of the hardest Oscar races to call. Austin Butler (“Elvis”), Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) and Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) have all been seen as possible winners. But it was Fraser who went home with the SAG Award for his performance in “The Whale.”
The SAG Awards are considered one of the most reliable Oscar bellwethers as actors make up the biggest percentage of the film academy, so their choices have the largest sway.
“Abbott Elementary” took home the SAG award for best ensemble in a comedy series, while “The White Lotus” won best ensemble in a drama series.
Over at the producers’ awards:
Tom Cruise was honored for his nearly
three decades of work as a producer, and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” took the top prize — best theatrical motion picture — at Saturday’s Producers Guild of America Awards.
Cruise’s producing career beginning in 1996 with “Mission: Impossible” earned him the David O. Selznick Award at the PGAs, a lifetime achievement honor.
The PGA also honored “Navalny” for best documentary feature and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” for best animated film. “Till” won the Stanley Kramer Award honoring a production or producer who illuminates and raises awareness of important social issues.
In the TV categories, “The Bear” won for best comedy; “The White Lotus,” for best drama; “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls,” for best reality or competition series; “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” for nonfiction series; “The Dropout,” for best limited series; and “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” for best TV movie.
Mindy Kaling received the Norman Lear
Achievement Award in Television for her work producing shows.
Meanwhile at the NAACP Image Awards:
Angela Bassett won entertainer of the year at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards on a night that also saw her take home an acting trophy for the series “9-1-1.”
Bassett’s Marvel sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” won best motion picture at the ceremony honoring entertainers, athletes and writers of color. Viola Davis won outstanding actress for the action epic “The Woman King,” and Will Smith won best actor for the slavery drama “Emancipation.” “Abbott Elementary” won for outstanding comedy series.
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