Ke Huy Quan, center, and ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ cast receive best cast award (Portal)
Awards Season Favorite Rare”Everything everywhere at once(“Everything Everywhere Simultaneously”) made strong strides on Sunday SAG Awards and not only took home the trophy for best cast and acting awards for Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, but also a statuette for Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Screen Actors Guild of America SAG Awards are usually a good indicator of the Oscars and Sunday’s ceremony took some unexpected turns in the Oscar race. Jamie Lee Curtis surprised by winning the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, beating out favorite Angela Bassett. Brendan Fraser won the best actor award for “The Whale”
Bassett, star of the Marvel film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, was the top contender in the category for weeks if not months. But Curtis, nominated for her first SAG award, was surprise winner at the gala, which was streamed live on Netflix’s YouTube page. Clearly emotional, Curtis said she’s wearing the wedding ring her father, Tony Curtis, gave to her mother, Janet Leigh.
“Look at me, I’m a ‘Nepo baby,'” she said, referring to the term used for the children of celebrities who benefit from nepotism. “But the reality is I’m 64 years old and that’s incredible.”
The week before the SAGs, “Everything” also became the winner of the Directors and Producers Guild Awards, two of the awards most accurately predicting Oscar winners. In the SAGs, Yeoh took the lead.
“This isn’t just for me,” Yeoh said. “It’s for every little girl that looks like me.”
Quan, who was an actor as a child and gave up the profession for years due to a lack of auditions, found that he is the first Asian to win the Supporting Actor category at the SAGs. “When I retired from acting, it was because there were so few options,” Quan said. “Now tonight we celebrate James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Hong Chau and Harry Shum Jr. The landscape looks very different now.”
The SAGs provided some clarity on the main acting categories. The best actor award was one of the most difficult to define. Austin Butler from “Elvis”, Fraser from “The Whale” and Colin Farrell from “The Banshees of Inisherin” were all considered potential winners at different times, but It was Fraser who took the SAG home for the role that puts him back in the spotlight.
“Trust me, if you stay there and put one foot in front of the other, you’ll get where you need to go,” Fraser said.
Brendan Fraser accepts the Best Actor award for “The Whale” at the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on February 26, 2023 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Abbott Elementary’s Qinta Brunson and Janelle James opened the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Although they didn’t host, Brunson and James officially kicked off the awards show and broke the ice with a few jokes, including one that implied that Viola Davis has transcended her EGOT status, or an artist who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony won.
Brunson returned to the stage shortly thereafter with the cast of Abbott Elementary to receive the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast in a Comedy Series. Brunson, the sitcom’s creator and one of its producers, told her colleagues, “These people keep me grounded.”
“The White Lotus“ also prevailed by winning the prize for Best Cast in a Drama Series and give another award Jennifer Coolidge, which also won Emmys and Golden Globes for the series. With tears in her eyes, Coolidge recalled how her love of acting began when she was a freshman in elementary school when her father took her to see Charlie Chaplin . He also thanked his companion for the ceremony, his actor friend Tim Bagley.
“You were a great escort tonight,” Coolidge said. “I can’t wait for us to go home.”
The first prize of the ceremony went to a winner from last year: Jessica Chastain. A year after winning the lead role in the film The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Chastain again won the SAG Awards, this time for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie, for the series Showtime “. about a country music power couple “George & Tammy”. Chastain flew in for the awards from previews of the upcoming Broadway revival of A Doll’s House.
Sunday’s streamed gala had a slightly less elaborate feel. Since no time limit was imposed on them by a broadcaster, the winners were not led off the stage to music. Very formal and slow sam elliott, winner of the award for Best Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie for “1883,” read his thanks in a much longer time than the allotted time. But the award ceremony quickly took off due to the early winners, including awards Jean Smart (“hacks”), Jeremy Allen White (“Bear”) and Jason Bateman (“Ozarks”).
Another effect of streaming is this there was no censorship. Yeoh cursed as she thanked her for her Best Actress award.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” started the night with five nominations each as the most nominated. The two films competed for best cast with Babylon, The Fabelmans (Los Fabelmans) and Women Talking (Ellas hablan).
An award was announced ahead of the red carpet gala: “Top Gun: Maverick” won the award for Best Stunt Cast in the film categories.
The SAG Awards are taken into account one of the most reliable references of the Oscars. The actors make up the largest percentage of the film academy, so their decisions have the most impact. Last year, “CODA” (CODA: Signs of the Heart) triumphed at the SAGs before winning the Best Picture Oscar, while Puerto Rican actresses Ariana DeBose, Will Smith, Jessica Chastain and Troy Kotsur previously won SAG Award won an Oscar.
(With information from AP)