SAG Award nominations were announced this morning by Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Lily Collins (Mank). The late Chadwick Boseman made history with 4 nominations simultaneously (2 Cast, 1 Lead, 1 Supporting) and Minari, one of our three favourite pictures of the year, suprised by nabbing THREE nominations when none were at all certain. Trial of the Chicago 7 and Ma Rainey also snagged 3 nominations.
After the jump brief commentary on the surprises, snubs, and what it might mean (or doesn't mean) for Oscar. It's always worth reeminding that there is next to no overlap from group to group in terms of voting. SAG's nominating committee are a mix of random people from their close to 100,000 wide membership and the acting branch of the Academy is infinitely smaller and though they're also members of SAG, only a tiny percentage might actually end up on the SAG nominating committee in any given year...
BEST ACTRESS
- Amy Adams, Hillbilly Elegy
- Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
- Frances McDormand, Nomadland
- Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
We really wish we had done a prdiction post because we KNEW Amy Adams was going to happen and now we don't have the receipts to prove it. She's the new Streep in terms of default status. This is a tough break for all the women vying for that fifth slot not to have SAG's support. We think it's between Michelle Pfeiffer and Andra Day and Amy Adams for the fifth slot, and the non SAG nominees might be able to build last minute momentum with their films opening in February.
BEST ACTOR
- Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
- Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Anthony Hopkins, The Father
- Gary Oldman, Mank
- Steven Yeun, Minari
A minor but lovely surprise here with Steven Yeun landing a nomination. We still think the Oscar nomination might go to Delroy Lindo but after both Globe and SAG passed, it's an uphill climb.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
- Olivia Colman, The Father
- Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari
- Helena Zengel, News of the World
Shocked and thrilled to see Youn Yuh-Jung listed though it's a shock that Amanda Seyfried was passed over. We don't expect that she'll be left out of Oscar lineup so this list won't be exact. There also could be last minute rallying of the Academy's Ellen Burstyn fans or Judas and the Black Messiah's Dominique Fishback making headway in February. Jodie Foster was surely a Globes only thing. We do wonder why Candice Bergen never got any traction though, being an enduring former awards magnet celebrity.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
- Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
- Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
- Jared Leto, The Little Things
- Leslie Odom Jr, One Night in Miami
Two days in a row, a nomination for Jared Leto. 🤡 If he makes the transfer to Oscar it will be the worst nomination in that category since... Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones (2009). And they both played serial killers so maybe actors are always impressed with that? The other four are surely repeating at Oscar.
Since category fraud isn't quite as rampant this year we're trying to make peace with Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah. He's very good in the picture but he's playing Fred Hampton in the Fred Hampton biopic so it's egregiously false as a campaign. It's like calling Leonardo DiCaprio a supporting actor in The Great Gatsby. Yes, in both cases the story is told from someone else's perspective but the ENTIRE STORY is about him. (Sigh). As for actual supporting players left out, this might spell doom for Paul Raci's bid for Sound of Metal or Glynn Turman's bid for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Critical favor never guarantees Oscar viability for the lesser fame actors, especially those who are genuinely supporting and not leads or arguable leads (like Odom and Kaluuya and Bill Murray, who might still show up on Oscar nom morning).
STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
- Da 5 Bloods
- Mulan
- News of the World
- Trial of the Chicago 7
- Wonder Woman 1984
Trial of the Chicago 7 had stunts? I guess there was a police attack scene on the protesters.
BEST CAST OF A MOTION PICTURE
- Da 5 Bloods
- Minari
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- One Night in Miami
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
This is a solid lineup and congrats to all the nominees. Though, as per usual some fine actors were left out of this particular honor due to SAG "solo title card" rule. As for what might have been here that didn't make the cut we assume that Mank and Promising Young Woman were also in the mix though here at the Film Bitch Awards I'd have added in Babyteeth and True History of the Kelly Gang.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE SAG NOMINATIONS THIS YEAR?