Awards Season 2019: Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards Winners

Last night (27th January), the Screen Actors' Guild Awards were announced. Here are the film winners:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: 

Black Panther

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role: 

Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: 

Glenn Close (The Wife)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role: 

Mahershala Ali (Green Book)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role: 

Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Film:

Black Panther

A couple of interesting results from the night. No surprises in Mahershala Ali and Glenn Close's wins. I do however find it interesting that SAG went for Rami Malek for Best Actor. That, and the Golden Globe win, must put him ahead in the Oscars race. Also, I was pleased to see Emily Blunt named Best Supporting Actress. She's an actress that I like and enjoy watching and it's also good to see A Quiet Place get a bit of recognition. 

Before anyone starts shitposting that the End is Nigh because Black Panther did so well, I want to point something out. The other nominees in the Outstanding Cast category (equivalent to their Best Picture) were A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Crazy Rich Asians. Green Book, and Roma- two films with very good chances of taking the Best Picture Oscar- were not nominated for that particular SAG award. As good as a film as I think Black Panther is, I would argue that it's the least likely of the eight Oscar nominees to win. 

Our next stop on Awards Season is the Directors' Guild (DGA) Awards this coming Saturday (2nd February).

Awards Season 2019: Producers' Guild Awards (PGA) Nominations

And we are back to Awards Season today (4th January) with the announcement of this year's PGA Awards nominees. The film nominees are as follows:

PRODUCERS' GUILD OF AMERICA (PGA) AWARDS NOMINATIONS

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Black Panther

BlackKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

Crazy Rich Asians

The Favourite

Green Book

A Quiet Place

Roma

A Star Is Born

Vice

A lot of names present and correct. In the past few years, the PGA have included genre/comic-book movies in their lists (Wonder Woman last year, Deadpool in 2017) but they've been an exception, not the rule. This definitely strengthens Black Panther's chances of a Best Picture nod. Interesting to see A Quiet Place nominated in place of some other awards favourites (such as If Beale Street Could Talk or Mary Poppins Returns), but- as noted above- the PGA will often march to the beat of its own drum. I think we'll see 8 of the above in the Oscar Best Picture category.

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Dr Seuss' The Grinch

Incredibles 2

Isle Of Dogs

Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Not really much to say on this, apart from I'm really pleased to see Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse included (and I hope the Academy see fit to follow suit on January 22nd). 

Documentary Film (previously announced)

The Dawn Wall

Free Solo

Hal

Into The Okavango

RBG

Three Identical Strangers

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

A strong year for documentary films, with four on the list I'd like to see (Free Solo, RBG, Three Identical Strangers, and Won't You Be My Neighbor?). I would like to see three of those featuring on the Academy's list. 


The PGA Awards will be handed out on 19th January. Congratulations to all nominees!


Just to give advance warning, next week is a bit heavy with the awards season stuff with the Golden Globe results, more Guild Award nominees, and the BAFTA Film nominations all to come, plus the Critics' Choice results. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say...

The Watchers Review of 2018

Our annual review of the year is here!

In this bumper-sized podcast, we discuss what we liked in the year... and what we didn't. 

In addition to Matt's usual round-up of the best horror films of 2018, Rhys discusses some of his favourite sci-fi and fantasy films of this year, whilst Tez looks back at his best films of the 2018 awards season.

We also look forward to the films of 2019.

So, sit back and enjoy!