The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards heaped nominations on Oppenheimer, Barbie and American Fiction, while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male actor.
As they were at the Golden Globes, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were again the lead nominees on Wednesday.
Each film picked up 4 nods including best ensemble. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were nominated for their performances in Barbie, while Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt received nods for Oppenheimer. Barbenheimer continues to rule Hollywood’s awards season, just as it did the summer box office.
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction got the biggest momentum boost, landing 3 nods: best ensemble, Jeffrey Wright for best male actor and Sterling K Brown for supporting male actor.
Along with those three films, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Blitz Bazawule’s The Color Purple were nominated for best ensemble, the guild’s top award.
Poor Things, star, Emma Stone, was nominated for best female actor while Willem Dafoe (but not Mark Ruffalo) was nominated for best supporting male actor. But those were far from the only snubs in the nominations announced by Issa Rae, a co-star in both Barbie and American Fiction, and Kumail Nanjiani on Instagram Live.
Nominated for best actor were Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Murphy and Wright. DiCaprio had long been seen as a presumed nominee for his performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Lily Gladstone, who is poised to potentially make history at the Oscars, was among the best female actor nominees, while Robert De Niro was nominated for best supporting male actor.
The nominees for best female actor are Carey Mulligan (Maestro) and Annette Bening (Nyad). Jodie Foster, joined the supporting female actor category which also featured Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) and Penelope Cruz for Ferrari. The last two best-ensemble winners Everything Everywhere All at Once and CODA, went on to win best picture at the Oscars.
This year’s SAG Awards follow a gruelling 118-day strike by the actors guild SAG-AFTRA that put Hollywood in a months-long battle over its future. Pay in the streaming era and artificial intelligence were top issues.
In the television categories, the trio that nearly swept the Golden Globes , Succession,The Bear and Beef, were again among the lead nominees. Succession led all series with five nods while The Last of Us, Ted Lasso and The Bear all collected four nominations.
The SAG Awards will take place February 24 at the Shine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Netflix will live stream the ceremony for the first time. Barbra Streisand will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award. (PTI)
