Along with the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild awards are often seen as a barometer for potential Oscar successes - and the overlap between the winners of both ceremonies suggest a few sure-fire hits at this year’s Academy Awards.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - a darkly humorous drama about a bereaved mother taking on a small-town police department - won the SAG award for best movie ensemble cast, weeks after being named best drama at the Golden Globes.
The film’s star, Frances McDormand, was named best female actor, and co-star Sam Rockwell took the award for best male supporting actor - both having already won Golden Globes for their performances.
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The sense of Golden Globes deja vu continued, with Gary Oldman named best male actor awards for his starring role in Winston Churchill biopic, Darkest Hour, and Allison Janney picking up her third SAG Award for a supporting role in ice skating biopic I, Tonya.
Claire Foy was honoured as best female actor in a drama series for her role as a young Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix series The Crown, but Big Little Lies and This Is Us dominated the other small screen awards.
Big Little Lies star Nicole Kidman’s award for best female actor in a miniseries was the Australian’s first win after ten SAG nominations, The Guardian reports.
"I'm so grateful today that our careers can go beyond 40 years old… I just beg that the industry stays behind us because our stories are finally being told,” she said as she accepted the statuette.
Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus made SAG Award history, winning a record-breaking ninth gong for best female actor in a comedy series
The 57-year-old, who is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer, did not attend last night’s ceremony. Instead, she tweeted congratulations to her co-stars for their award for Best Comedy Series Ensemble, saying she was watching in her pyjamas.
The Golden Globes were dominated by the legacy of #MeToo, with many attendees dressing in black and wearing pins in support of the Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment - but last night the signs of protest were few and far between.
“Compared to the Globes, the SAGs were a business-as-usual affair,” says USA Today, although the ceremony paid a subtle nod to the theme of female empowerment with an all-female host list. A notable departure came when Marisa Tomei and Rosanna Arquette named some of the women who braved the Hollywood wall of silence to expose Harvey Weinstein.
The emotional tribute to the “silence breakers” was low-key but powerful, says ABC News: “not every show can have barn burning Oprah Winfrey moment, but sometimes a trace of genuine emotion is just enough.”
