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Wednesday 12 January 2022

Awards Season 2022: Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards Nominations


This afternoon (Wednesday 12th January), the nominations for the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were announced, with Vanessa Hudgens (tick, tick... BOOM!, High School Musical, Spring Breakers) and Rosario Dawson (Daredevil, Sin City, Rent) doing the honours via Instagram Live. 

Last year's SAG Awards were also announced this way and, just like last year, there were a few technical issues to start, with no sound on Rosario Dawson's feed. This was soon rectified, though, and the nominees were announced.

Below is the list of film nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Belfast
CODA
Don't Look Up
House Of Gucci
King Richard

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power Of The Dog)
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… Boom!)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy Of Macbeth)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Lady Gaga (House Of Gucci)
Jennifer Hudson (Respect)
Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)
Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Jared Leto (House Of Gucci)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power Of The Dog)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)
Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power Of The Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Black Widow
Dune
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings


House Of Gucci and The Power Of The Dog both have three nods apiece. 

A couple of surprises here (for me, the main one is that neither Jamie Dornan or Ciaran Hinds got a nod in Supporting Actor for Belfast). This is the first major awards love for Jennifer Hudson, Bradley Cooper, and Cate Blanchett this season, so it'll be interesting to see if this continues. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of the same names cropping up again, so it's looking like (in the acting categories at least) there's a strong core of 3-4 consistent names, with some variation then in the remaining 1-2. 

Also, as previously announced, the living legend that is Helen Mirren will be given this year's SAG Life Achievement Award. 

The SAG Awards will be handed out on Sunday February 27th 2022.

Congratulations to all nominees!

For those of you with absolutely no interest in this utter trivia, you'll be glad to know you've got a good two weeks' respite from this as the next awards announcements aren't until Thursday 27th January, when all three of the major Guilds- Producers', Writers' and Directors'- will announce their nominations. A three-for-one deal. How exciting!

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