2024 SAG Awards recap: Winners, highlights, big moments
Cillian Murphy, Lily Gladstone, Robert Downey Jr. and Deviant Joy Randolph
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worldwide Oppenheimer It took home the top prize at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where it won Best Cast in a Motion Picture – while also taking home the Lead and Supporting Actor awards.
Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor award for his role as the scientist who led the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb. He thanked his cast mates — “Oppenhomies,” quoting actress Olivia Thirlby — and the larger acting community. “Twenty years ago, when I was trying to become an actor, I was a failed musician and felt very intrusive,” Murphy recalls. “But now, looking at all of you here today, I know I’m part of something really great.”
Lily Gladstone won Best Actress for Apple Moonflower KillersShe opened her acceptance speech by thanking her fellow SAG members for their solidarity during last year’s strike. “This has been a difficult year for all of us – for those in this room, and those who are not in this room. I am very proud that we have come here in solidarity with all our other unions,” Gladstone said, adding that representation is ultimately about storytelling. : “We bring compassion to a world that desperately needs it. It is very easy to distance ourselves. It’s so easy to shut down and stop feeling, and we all bravely continue to feel. “This humanizes people, brings them out of the shadows, and brings them visibility.”
Murphy Oppenheimer Co-star Robert Downey Jr. won Best Supporting Actor, his second career win at the SAG Awards after winning Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Ali McBeal In 2001. “Why me?” why now? Why do things seem to be going my way?” said Downey, who also won a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and a BAFTA for his role in the Christopher Nolan-directed world historical epic. “Unlike my fellow nominees, I will never tire of my voice.”
retained Da’Vine star Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress for Focus Features. “How lucky are we that we can do what we do? Really, in what other profession can people live so many lives and touch so many hearts? I wake up every day overwhelmed with gratitude to be a working actor,” she said. Receiving this award from my fellow artists is the greatest honor of my career. I also want to take a moment to say that every role I’ve ever played has been crafted thanks to those nearest and dearest to me – some of the most brilliant actors I know whose talents have yet to be properly recognized by the world. . For every actor still waiting for their chance, let me tell you: Your life can change in one day, and it’s not a question of if, but when. It keeps moving forward.”
HBO channels Succession He won Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series for its final season, his second win in the category after taking home the award in 2022. “One last hello,” Alan Ruck said. “Right now, you’re looking at some of the luckiest people on the planet and some of the most grateful people, because not only have we been able to work on one of the best TV shows probably ever, we’ve become lifelong friends.”
But in the acting categories Pedro Pascal won SuccessionAwards series, where he won the Best Actor award for HBO The last of us. Even the star seemed surprised by the win. “This is wrong for a number of reasons. I’m a little drunk,” Pascal said. “I thought I was… could Get drunk!”
Elizabeth Debicki won Best Actress in a Drama Series the crownThe sixth and final season, her second match with Princess Diana. Like Pascal, she also expressed her surprise at winning the award. “The women in my category, I watch in complete awe, and I learn how to practice my craft when I watch you,” she said.
foreign currency The bear It took first prize in the TV Comedy categories, and won Best Ensemble. The show also won individual awards for Actor and Actress in Comedy: Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, respectively, with White receiving her second consecutive SAG Award for the series. “I am honored to be in this community,” he said. “I’ve wanted to be a part of this community my whole life. I didn’t have a backup plan. I started at a very young age, and I’m so emotional that I’m standing before all of you today.”
“I look at this room of people whose work moves me and motivates me and makes me feel and laugh,” Edibiri said before announcing that she would recite a James Baldwin quote she had recently read. “The act of love is really just a reflection, and I believe that anything anyone sees in me that is worth anything is because of the people who love and support me, and that’s what made me who I am.”
meat Stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong won best actor and actress in a limited series. Wong thanked Netflix, noting that the company has supported her since her debut in 2016 Baby Cobra, while Yeun mentioned in his speech that he got his SAG card for jiggling a bowl of fake caramel while speed-wearing for a Milky Way commercial. “Honestly, I was as thrilled to get that card then as I am now to receive it here,” Yoon said.
In preview, HBO The last of us He won the TV stunt performance category, while Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 Winning the relevant film category.
Morning showJennifer Aniston presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbra Streisand, noting that the ceremony’s location – the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium – was the site of Streisand’s first major concert in 1963. Noting that the two-time Oscar winner is a pioneer in the music world. Aniston, a woman in the entertainment industry, said that Streisand “not only paved the way for us women, she demolished the space for us.” Bradley Cooper joined Aniston on stage, and also celebrated Streisand, saying, “One would think that an actor who becomes a director would have to learn to look at everything in a whole new way to see how everything fits together, to get that view at 10,000 feet.” . But this perspective was not new to Barbara; it was second nature to her.
“It’s a great award to get because you know in advance… you don’t have to sit there and worry and wonder if you’re going to get it,” said Streisand, who noted that she has been a SAG member for six decades. She also remembered that she had gone to see Guys and dolls When she was a teenager and fell in love with the star Marlon Brando, she realized that participating in films was her life’s calling. “This fantasy world was more fun than anything I had ever experienced,” Streisand added. “I didn’t like reality. I wanted to be in movies. Even though I knew I didn’t look like other women on screen, my mother said, ‘You’d better learn to write,’ but I didn’t listen. And somehow, it all became fact.”
Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, Hannah Waddingham and Idris Elba kicked off the show with the annual “I’m an Actor” featurette, sharing personal anecdotes of their biggest career accomplishments. Elba also introduced the awards show from the stage, noting that for the first time the ceremony is being streamed live on Netflix and swearing is allowed – within reason. “Here’s a good rule: Maybe don’t say anything you wouldn’t say in front of Oprah,” Elba said.
the to kidnap The star also took the opportunity to address the biggest elephant in the room: last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike. “It is particularly important that we are here together on this occasion after we have gone through a very difficult time with the strike,” Elba said. “I want to take this moment to honor and appreciate all of you here and at home who have stood for SAG-AFTRA in solidarity and support.”
Addressing A-list members of the audience, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher also spoke about the lessons learned from the 2023 strike. “I survived the longest strike in our union’s history with courage and conviction. It has been an arduous journey. It has come with great sacrifice and relentless pressure.” In it. It is your collective dignity and perseverance in standing up and saying we deserve better because we are better that led to a historic billion dollar deal.
Drescher added that their labor struggle inspired other workforces around the world. “Your solidarity has ignited workers around the world, leading to what will forever be remembered as the Hot Summer of Work,” she said. You have taken the hero’s journey and stood on the front lines. Strike leaders led the march on picket lines. And we all came to the parades because you understood what our tremendous contribution to this wonderful industry meant.
This story was originally published on February 24 at 5:44 p.m
