SAG Awards 2024: ‘Oppenheimer’ Dominates the Night

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” scored three large wins on the thirtieth Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday evening, including much more trade prizes to its formidable warfare chest.

The movie’s prime honor, the SAG Award for finest ensemble, introduced solid members, together with Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt, to the stage. Their co-star Kenneth Branagh famous that they had been final collectively in July, after they walked out of the biopic’s premiere in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike.

“This is a full-circle moment for us,” Branagh stated.

Thus far, “Oppenheimer” has received prime prizes on the Golden Globes, BAFTA and Critics Choice Awards and is taken into account the front-runner for the perfect image Oscar. Last 12 months’s best-picture winner, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” additionally triumphed on the SAGs first, although solely 5 of the final 10 ensemble winners have gone on to Oscar glory.

The SAG Awards have a significantly better observe document in terms of clarifying the person performing races, since these winners have matched up precisely with the Oscars every of the final two years. In the aggressive finest actor race, “Oppenheimer” star Murphy triumphed over Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”) and Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), amongst others, for his efficiency because the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb throughout World War II.

And although “Poor Things” star Emma Stone received the BAFTA for finest actress final weekend, “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone triumphed at SAG for her flip as an Osage lady whose relations are murdered by her husband (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his uncle (Robert De Niro).

In the supporting races, SAG honored Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who performed a grieving faculty cook dinner in “The Holdovers,” and Downey, who delivered a seething efficiency as a political operative in “Oppenheimer.” Both stars have dominated the season and can nearly definitely cruise to Oscar-night victory.

“Why me, why now? Why do things seem to be going my way?” Downey joked in his newest acceptance speech, including, “Unlike my fellow nominees, I will never grow tired from the sound of my voice.”

In her personal speech, Randolph sought to encourage her fellow actors.

“How lucky are we to do what we do?” she stated. “For every actor out there waiting for their chance, let me tell you that your life can change in a day.”

Elsewhere on the ceremony, Barbra Streisand accepted a lifetime achievement award with what appeared like a reference to the present world scenario. Noting that Hollywood was constructed by studio chiefs like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer, males who fled antisemitism in Eastern Europe, she stated, “Now I dream of a world where such prejudice is a thing of the past.”

But the actress, filmmaker and singer centered totally on her love of movie, fondly recalling going to the flicks at a theater close to Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. “That make-believe world was much more pleasant than anything I experienced,” she stated, explaining that she didn’t like actuality. “I wanted to be in the movies.”

Later, as a working actress, she recalled, her first movie, “Funny Girl” (1968), set the tone for her profession, due to the director, William Wyler, and the cinematographer, Harry Stradling. “They had no problem with young women with opinions,” she added.

Here is the entire record of SAG winners.

Film

Outstanding Cast

“Oppenheimer”

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Actor in a Lead Role

Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”

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Actress in a Lead Role

Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

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Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”

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Actress in a Supporting Role

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”

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Stunt Ensemble in a Movie

“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One”

Television

Ensemble in a Drama Series

“Succession”

Ensemble in a Comedy Series

“The Bear”

Actor in a Drama Series

Pedro Pascal, “The Last of Us”

Actress in a Drama Series

Elizabeth Debicki, “The Crown”

Actor in a Comedy Series

Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”

Actress in a Comedy Series

Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”

Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series

Steven Yeun, “Beef”

Actress in a TV Movie or Limited Series

Ali Wong, “Beef”

Stunt Ensemble in a TV Series

“The Last of Us”