by Nathaniel R
Taylour Paige and Dusan Brown aren't included in "Ma Rainey's" nomination
Each year when the SAG nominations for Outstanding Cast is named, we bemoan the rules which cause unneccessary exclusions. To be an official nominee you need to have your own title card. Having your own title card generally requires that you either already have a degree of fame, a strong agent if you don't, or a large role... so sometimes it excludes really crucial contributions to a movie. Everyone who doesn't get their own title card gets a certificate but they aren't officially "nominees" based on SAG's rules. This year, only Trial of the Chicago 7 (which has a giant cast) and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (which has a very intimate cast) have really unfortunate exclusions...
DA 5 BLOODS
15 Cast Members: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser, Jasper Pääkkonen, Johnny Trí Nguyên, Lê Y Lan, Nguyên Ngõc Lâm, Sandy Hu'o'ng Pham, "with" Jean Reno, "and" Chadwick Boseman, Van Veronica Ngo
Who was excluded: No key players are missing given the generous amount of title cards. Just several soldiers in flashbacks and in present time, plus workers like street vendors and hotel personnel and family members without dialogue in flash forwards.
Fun trivia: Veronica Ngo who plays "Hanoi Hannah" who wee see on the mic a few times and da Bloods tour guide all throughout the movie Jonny Nguyen as "Vinh Tran" are both famous stars in Vietnam and used to be a couple!
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
6 Cast Members: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, and Johnny Coyne.
Jeremy Shamos as "Irvin"
Who was excluded: The shared title cards went to the other four speaking roles. Taylour Paige as "Dussie Mae" and Jeremy Shamos as "Irvin" share a title card and so do Dusan Brown as "Sylvester" and Joshua Harto as "Policeman". It's a pity they were all excluded, particular Taylour Paige with her Ma & Levee rousing sauciness (we nominated her here in "Breakthrough of the Year") and Shamos with his memorable middle management flop sweat.
MINARI
7 Cast Members: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Scott Haze "with" Youn Yuh-Jung, "and" Will Patton.
Who was excluded: This is a fairly inclusive list given the intimacy of the movie, though the most obvious missing actor is little Jacob Wade who plays Johnnie, David's friend at church, even though you get his dad (Scott Haze). But no other actors other than the 7 listed even get a shared title card. They're playing the townspeople, doctors, groceery store owners and the like. They're all relegated to the end credits crawl.
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
10 Cast Members: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr, Joaquina Kalukango, Nicolette Robinson, Michael Imperioli, Lawrence Gilliard Jr, "with" Beau Bridges "and" Lance Reddick.
Who was excluded: Another semi-inclusive credits listing given how intimate the movie actually feels. You even get the family members who are barely in the movie. That said, there are a three omissions with a shared title card: Christian Magby, who plays Jamaal (the young excitable security man), Jeremy Pope (as Jackie Wilson) and a cameo from Christopher Gorham (as Johnny Carson).
TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
10 Cast Members: (alpha order in credits) Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon -Levit, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong
Who was excluded: Eleven actors with ample dialogue are missing with shared title cards going to Noah Robbins and Danny Flaherty (the only titular characters missing from the main cast nomination). The other people missing are a combo of policemen, FBI agents, government officials, and legal team members. They are Ben Shenkham (legal team), Kelvin Harrison Jr (Fred Hampton from the Black Panthers), Caitlin Fitzgerald (Agent Daphne O'Connor, the plant) and Alice Kremelberg (Bernardine, who works in the legal office), JC Mackenzie (Thomas Foran), and John Doman (John Mitchell), Wayne Duvall (Detective Deluca), Damian Young (Howard Ackerman), and CJ Wilson (Sergeant Scott Scibelli).