Sunday
Jan292017
SAG Winners List
Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 8:43PM 
Movies
Lead Actress Emma Stone, La La Land
Lead Actor Denzel Washington, Fences
Supporting Actress Viola Davis, Fences
Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Ensemble Hidden Figures
Lifetime Achievement
Lily Tomlin
TV
Leading Actress, Comedy Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Veep
Leading Actor, Comedy William H Macy, Shameless
Ensemble, Comedy Orange is the New Black
Actress, Limited Series/Movie Sarah Paulson, People vs OJ Simpson
Actor, Limited Series/Movie Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Leading Actor, Drama John Lithgow, The Crown
Leading Actress, Drama Claire Foy, The Crown
Ensemble, Drama Stranger Things
For commentary on the awards, check out "10 takeaways from SAG night" and "I am an actor"
Reader Comments (38)
Mahershala Ali has been the supporting actor frontrunner for the entire awards season, but I think he more than solidified his Oscar win with that heartfelt speech -- so relevant, personal, and touching.
A little over a week ago I put three bets on: Hacksaw for Stunt Ensemble, Denzel for Lead Actor, and Hidden Figures for Ensemble, and they've just paid off!
£400. Thank you SAG!
So many winners of color....this is what diversity looks like....i can't remember being so happy with the winners at an award show.... Dolly Parton kicked ass....so glad brie Larson didn't have to give an award to Casey again lol
So glad Washington is no longer SAG free. Disappointed for Moonlight since the ensemble of Hidden Figures is loaded with recognizable names.
Yeah to Washington, Stone & Ali!!! Much as I'm happy for Davis, she alr had 3 individual SAGs + 1 best cast.
It wld've been perfect if SAG have chosen Williams instead. Manchester is the biggest loser of the night, the same fate suffered by Brokeback Mount 11 yrs ago!! The fact is not lost on me tt Williams was nom for best supp actresses both times & lost!!)
Washington might have won SAG, but I still believe Casey will win the Oscar w the momentum he's building rite now.
Stone, Davis & Ali r gonna repeat their wins come Oscars nite!
@ /3rtful
I warned y'all about that yesterday...
Denzel now could be a third timer at Oscar. Yasss.
While Hidden Figures is a great choice, I'm sad Moonlight lost. I thought a win here would have helped it win Picture.
Best Picture was locked yesterday, but they threw away the key tonight.
Kudos to Taraji P. Henson for delivering a classy speech which certainly had political undertones, but didn't castigate half of the nation. Also, great to see some love come Denzel's way as I found his Fences role underappreciated this season.
Tonight was actually a good night for La La Land. First Emma Stone's win gave it a win and her speech was excellent. Also Moonlight was its biggest competition and it was poised to get Ensemble but instead Hidden Figures won it and dented Moonlight more than La La Land. Its other biggest competition, Manchester, walked home empty-handed.
Of course Hidden Figures gets a BIG boost but could it *really* win Picture with just 3 nominations and without an Acting win lock or Director/Editing nominations?
Quality of performance aside, I'm curious if Denzel won because he's the biggest star of the nominees OR if the Affleck backlash played into it at all... I'm assuming Casey Affleck is still the Oscar frontrunner, but this makes Denzel the next in line with a good argument in his favor.
La La Land (Best Picture), Emma Stone (Actress), Mahershala Ali (Supporting Actor) and Viola Davis (Supporting Actress) are locked up. Chazelle seems set for Director, but Jenkins is a spoiler if Oscar feels like spreading the wealth.
La La Land seems poised for a huge (but not FULL) sweep... And it seems like most everyone's attention is on current events (which ARE objectively more important than awards,) so there's not a lot of time or energy left to have a real discussion about film or come to a new consensus on many of the categories.... Campaign-wise, this is becoming one of the more predictable Oscar years in recent memory.
(More specifically about the SAG awards, I don't know what to make of some of those TV awards. I don't get the love for The Crown at all. William H Macy continues to be the weakest element of Shameless, a show on the decline, but he's a big respected star so...? The ensemble win for Orange makes a lot of sense, but Strange Things winning Drama ensemble (and the PGA award for Drama series) baffles me.)
Emma is locked for the Oscar now.
The Oscar is still Casey's imo. This is like Meryl winning for Doubt.
I AM SO HAPPY FOR JLD, The Crown actors and Stranger Things!!!
Veep should have won comedy cast.
Loving the Hidden Figures win. But this solidifies La La Land for Best Picture.
Winona's face during the cast acceptence speech was everything. Also Moane running from Hidden Figures to Moonligth and Hidden Figures back.
Don't mean to be racist but damn, I have trouble telling apart Sterling K Brown & Courtney B Vance. Are they twins or something?
Look I'm just gonna be real: I would MUCH rather see a bonfire movie star legend like Denzel join the three-time Oscar winner pantheon (the first black actor to achieve that) than watch a sexual assaulter win in a year where that kind of behavior has already been OVER rewarded in America.
GO DENZEL!
*bonafide
I am definitely getting 2001 vibes in regards to Denzel. Russell Crowe was winning every award in sight until scandal derailed his campaign. Sound familiar?
Fail.
Happy that Casey missed out. Sad that Moonlight missed out.
Hey Homie, who is trying not to be racist....
Not only they look nothing alike apart from Their dark skin, but There is a 16 year age gap between the two- which you would never miss were These two white men.
Emma gives great speech (even while nervous, she's charming, effortless, and very much herself)...I think she's going to win the Oscar.
YAWWWWNNN!!! Viola will become the 100th FALSE supporting actress Oscar winner, not her fault (and at least she's not as insignificant as last year "what's her name again, thank God will never hear from her again but when she show up in a netflix series only 'cause she as an Oscar" winner) but still infuriating...
Yes, Emma WILL win. For a poorly written, one-note, superficial, paper-thin character with bad dialogue. Yes, she sang (very mediocre) and danced (horribly), but The real reason she is winning is because she is white, skinny (emaciated at times), Under 30, harmless, non-threatening, cute and charming.
Can I just say two things...
1) The clips of each performance that they showed were, to me, quite lackluster.
2) Who came up with the idea of just showing the trailer for each nominated cast film? I wish they actually showed some of the acting. They did that for the TV nominees and it worked much better.
My girl Janelle Monáe has a nice parting gift for her wonderful contribution to film in 2016 and that makes me happy.
Love seeing Denzel getting some accolades for Fences, at last. Mahershala needed this one to stay in the race so I'm pleased there too.
I don't even know how they came up with the comedy tv winners. Macy? Lol ok. I love OITNB and all the 80 actresses on it but Blackish was easily the best comedy ensemble of last year.
Cool to see Stranger Things win (Winona has a SAG!) since those kids all had great natural chemistry with each other and there was good casting among the adults.
The Crown is an interesting curiosity but suddenly turning it into this awards magnet is not a good look. It's not THAT amazing. I'd say the same of Westworld, if it was picking up awards outside Thandie's performance.
All the political speeches were fantastic and rousing.
Ryder looked as if she were auditioning for a movie and they asked her to do different
Emotions... Very weird!!! More
I tweeted a few days ago that the Casey Affleck backlash is paving the way for a Denzel win, but I was shot down. I am feeling more and more confident as the days go by.
Ben, Washington was always a possibility to upset at SAG because he never won.
Ben, eff Twitter. ;-)
I might in the minority but even thought I'm predicting La La Land to take 8 Oscars...
... I've got the feeling Moonlight is likely to upset with Picture, Director, Supp. Actor, Supp. Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing and Score. Even Cinematography, even thought I think no one can take that one away from La La Land... the reason why, the growing backlash against the Awards bohemiath... Moonlight is a film you instantly know is important... La La Land is escapism, and does not have the gravitas it needs, to make it feel important. Hidden Figures, Hacksaw Ridge, Moonlight and Arrival, has it. La La Land, is pure Hollywood onanism and too obviously designed to be likeable rather than focusing on telling an original story, or that add gravitas in its themes... SPOILER the last 20 minutes of the film actually show how unimportant are the choices the characters take, given that both results would be eerly similar, therefore dragging out any gravitas or real importance from the choices forced themselves to make, which was stupid in the first place... she was going to move to Paris for a couple of months and her career would afterwards be stablished in LA, so ending the relationship was one of the stupid plot twists of 2016, and completely pointless. END SPOILER
@ Jesus Alonso
From your keyboard...
(But I'm skeptical.)
Graham: I actually love that it did. 2016-2017 Emmys, Drama Series? First, 3 notes:
1. At the very least, Downton Abbey is finished. 2. Game of Thrones is probably out after finally getting the second win most feel it deserved on a symbolic level, if not strictly for quality, for Season 6. 3. Better Call Saul was always a "filler" slot until something better came along.
Locks:
Mr. Robot Season 2
Orange is the New Black Season 4 (Huge improvement on Season 3, even as it proves that this Orange probably only has 2-3 more seasons of shelf life in it, max.)
The Americans Season 5
Probable:
Stranger Things Season 1
The Crown Season 1
Maybe:
Better Call Saul Season 3 (This getting in at all was amazingly lazy (still a tensionless prequel, where you know exactly who's going to die or not at all times), but I can't believe many really want this nominated 3 times. Still Emmy is lazy whenever they can be, so...)
Homeland Season 6 (The show was already 4-5 years out of date when it first aired. Another nomination for Season 6 seems...not impossible, but REALLY pushing it.)
5 Alternates, in order of likelihood:
Luke Cage Season 1
Iron Fist Season 1 (That director list looks FINE, and I'm suddenly a little more assuaged that they know what they're doing than I maybe should be. Though, it IS more likely that the olive branch Emmy will offer to Marvel Netflix is for that Defenders mini-series, its impossible to think that the momentum won't lend both productions an air of respect. Enough for BOTH to unseat Saul and Homeland? Unlikely, but I'd say still possible.)
House of Cards Season 5 (This, actually VERY dumb, modernized version of The Ford administration has to eventually miss, even if it can't be entirely dismissed either.)
UnREAL Season 2
Game of Thrones Season 7
Volvagia - Oh, I'm all for predictable TV races being shook up, I'm just not getting the awards love for The Crown and Stranger Things in particular. But it's all just opinion, I can see the appeal, they just wouldn't be my nominees. Stranger Things for anything acting related in particular.
Not to completely hijack the thread, but I'll play the Emmy Best Drama game... Don't forget that Game of Thrones won't air during the Emmy year (production was pushed so it won't air until the summer.)
- The Americans, Season 5 (It finally broke through last year, I see it sticking around, especially given the current political climate.)
- The Crown, Season 1 (Traditional prestige show, good replacement for Downton.)
- House of Cards, Season 5 (It won't premiere until the last day of Emmy eligibility so its hard to say, but it'll likely be the last show most Emmy voters watch before nomination ballots go out, so unless it's REALLY disappointing...)
- Mr. Robot, Season 2 (Divisive season, but it plays better as a binge watch which is how a lot of voters will see it.)
- Stranger Things, Season 1 (It doesn't feel like an Emmy show, but it's got mad love in the industry right now.)
- This is Us, Season 1 (Seems loved. It would also be the first commercial broadcast network nominee since "The Good Wife" in 2011.)
- Westworld, Season 1 (With GoT out, its HBO's biggest play this year.)
Alternates, in order of likelihood:
- Orange is the New Black, Season 4 (A huge improvement, but sometimes shows bounce back into the category and sometimes they don't. Plus Netflix being busy promoting so many other shows? It's hard to imagine Netflix having FOUR nominees in the category.)
- Better Call Saul, Season 3 (First two years were nominated and some big guest stars rumored for the coming year that will raise its buzz. But I agree that it feels off for this year, sight unseen.)
- Homeland, Season 6 (An Emmy fav, but no buzz this year...)
- The Handmaiden's Tale, Season 1 (Unsure if this is a traditional series or if it'll be pushed as a Limited Series. Buzz is very high, plus stars Elizabeth Moss who has gone 0 for 7 for her own Emmy. Doesn't premiere until April. Hulu hasn't had much Emmy luck, but this could be the show.)
- Sneaky Pete, Season 1 (Good reviews, seems well liked by those who've seen it. It's Amazon's first real play in this category.)
Thinking that Huppert could still beat Stone at Oscars.
Graham: If I were to guess my seven-long Drama Series ballot for the 2016-2017 season?
UnREAL Season 2
Luke Cage, Season 1 aka Marvel Netflix, Season 4
The Americans, Season 5
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1
Stranger Things, Season 1
Orange is the New Black, Season 4
And one of either Agents of SHIELD Season 4, Iron Fist, Season 1 aka Marvel Netflix, Season 5 or Star Trek: Discovery, Season 1. Beyond the performances, I don't quite get The Crown, House of Cards OR Game of Thrones, not sure I'd get why Mr. Robot being "accurate" hacking is so worth frothing over (Inaccurate but sympathetic to the desire to rebel (Hack the Planet! Hack the PLA-NET!) wins in my book over accurate but nihilistic over the same desire), the stuff Nat's brought up about Westworld (that it feels like, at minimum, a Season 2 or 3 without a Season 1) makes me question if I'd like that and This is Us sounds too melodramatic and I'd probably start gagging within 10 episodes.
Hopefully Davis insist on Lead Placement for this movie.
http://shadowandact.com/2017/01/30/viola-davis-julia-roberts-to-star-in-racially-charged-courtroom-drama-small-great-things-for-la-la-land-producer/