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Thursday 4 February 2021

Awards Season 2021: Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards Nominations


Today (Thursday 4th February), the nominations for the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were announced. 

Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror, Mank) and Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Soul) announced the nominations via Instagram Live. How modern! Despite a few (ahem) early technical issues, the nominees were announced pretty smoothly. 

This is generally considered to be a bit of a bellwether award, as the voting body for SAG overlaps quite substantially with the actors' branch of the Academy. 

Below is the list of film nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Minari
One Night In Miami
The Trial Of The Chicago 7

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Riz Ahmed (Sound Of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Gary Oldman (Mank)
Steven Yeun (Minari)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
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)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Sacha Baron Cohen (The 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…)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Youn Yuh-Jung (Minari)
Helena Zengel (News Of The World)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Da 5 Bloods
Mulan
News Of The World
The Trial Of The Chicago 7
Wonder Woman 1984

Quite a few of the same names coming out already, with several actors and actresses looking ever more likely for the Oscar nod (Riz Ahmed, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Viola Davis, Frances McDormand, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya, Leslie Odom Jr., and Olivia Colman especially; I think Chadwick Boseman is in a strong position for at least one posthumous nod, and maybe two). 

Nice to see a couple of the cast of Minari being recognised here, building on the love of the Independent Spirit Awards. Despite high critical praise, still no awards love as yet for Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) or Ellen Burstyn (Pieces Of A Woman) but there's still time. And the Academy have been known in the past to chuck a couple of curveballs in their nominations (Laura Dern for Wild, for instance). 

The winners of this year's SAG Awards will be announced on Sunday 4th April (moved from its previously announced date of Sunday 14th March to avoid clashing with the similarly-moved Grammys). 

Congratulations to all nominees!

There's a couple of days of a breather from awards stuff, but this coming Sunday (7th February) will see this year's Critics' Choice Awards nominations announced. 

Enjoy this brief respite!

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