Awards Season 2025: Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards, and Directors Guild Awards (DGA) Nominations

It's a two-for-one kind of day when it comes to movie awards, so let's not beat around the bush; let's get right down to it!

SCREEN ACTORS' GUILD (SAG) AWARDS

This afternoon (Wednesday 8th January), the nominations for the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were announced. Due to the fast-moving wildfires currently raging around the Los Angeles area, the in-person event which would have usually seen the nominations announced was cancelled (our of "an abundance of caution" and rightly so) and instead the nominees were confirmed via a press release. 

Below is the list of film nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Anora

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)

Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)

Daniel Craig (Queer)

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)

Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl)

Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)

Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)

Mikey Madison (Anora)

Demi Moore (The Substance)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)

Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl)

Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)

Ariana Grande-Butera (Wicked)

Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Jonathan Bailey (Wicked)

Yura Borisov (Anora)

Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown)

Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

The Fall Guy

Gladiator II

Wicked

Wicked leads the pack with a whopping five nominations, with Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown in second place with four. Emilia Pérez and Anora both have three apiece. 

There's a couple of interesting curveballs in the SAG choices; this is the first awards recognition for Monica Barbaro (who plays musician Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown), Jamie Lee Curtis (who plays the best friend to Pamela Anderson's character in The Last Showgirl) and Jonathan Bailey (who plays Fiyero in Wicked). I think it's safe to say that the Best Actor Oscar category is pretty much locked. In fact, I'd say there's a strong core to each of the acting categories, but still room for some surprises. 

The SAG Awards will be handed out on Sunday 23rd February 2025, with the ceremony streaming on Netflix. Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Veronica Mars, Frozen) will be taking on host duties.  

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DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS (DGA)

Wednesday also saw the announcement of the nominees for the 77th Directors' Guild Awards. The film nominees are as follows:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film

Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)

Sean Baker (Anora)

Edward Berger (Conclave)

Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)

James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)

Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film

Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine As Light)

Megan Park (My Old Ass)

RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (Armand)

Sean Wang (Didi)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary 

(previously announced)

Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev (Porcelain War)

Julian Brave Noisecat and Emily Kassie (Sugarcane) 

Johan Grimonprez (Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat)

Ibrahim Nash’at (Hollywoodgate)

Natalie Rae and Angela Patton (Daughters)

Interesting that the DGA have gone with James Mangold over Coralie Fargeat (The Substance). Will the Academy follow suit? We have to wait until next Friday to find that out. 

The DGA Awards will be give out on 8th February 2025.

Congratulations to all nominees!

There'll be a short post this coming Friday (10th January) when the Producers' Guild Awards (PGA) nominees will be announced.