SAG Awards 2025 shake up Oscar race — and Wicked…
Award season could also be very long, however Sunday evening’s Screen Actors Guild Awards have been mercifully short.
Two fast hours, in and out. Other interminable Hollywood occasions, please take observe.
The ceremony honoring performers on the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is the final main step on the street to the Oscars, and a pitstop on the cul-de-sac to the Emmys.
The SAGs, an embarrassingly glitchy broadcast on Netflix, are a helpful bellwether for the Academy Awards. A major quantity of Oscar voters are actors. So, a couple March 2 contests have been just about sewn up Sunday evening.
Kieran Culkin is now the favourite to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Kieran Culkin, who received best supporting actor for his tender and humorous flip in “A Real Pain,” can begin training his Oscar speech. But he’s not the preparation sort, as evidenced by his wacky improv set on Sunday.
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You can wager that Culkin will certainly get to do his stand-up routine again on the Dolby Theater subsequent week.
And, regardless of the controversy surrounding “Emilia Perez” lead Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana took home one other best supporting actress trophy for her emotional efficiency within the bizarre Spanish-language musical. That’s all wrapped up.
But SAG stated, “Thank you, next” to Ariana Grande, who has but to win a lot as a sticker for enjoying Glinda in “Wicked.” Her second probability will come subsequent 12 months for the second half of the “Wizard of Oz” riff.
“Wicked” bought an awakening as impolite as having a home dropped on you — it went home completely empty-handed. Not so in style, it seems.
But a number of races have been turbo-charged.
“Conclave” received best ensemble — setting up a sizzling Oscar race with “Anora.” Getty Images
“Conclave,” the drama about a scandalous election of a new pope (speak about unlucky timing) unexpectedly received best ensemble, SAG’s best image equal. That’s recent off a victory on the BAFTAs in London.
The Comeback Catholic beat “Anora,” the New York-set stripper Cinderella story that had momentum after taking the Producers Guild, Directors Guild, Writers Guild and Critics Choice Awards.
I feel the five-boroughs comedy nonetheless comes out on high. The different guilds adore it. But the class will, for a refreshing change, be a nailbiter.
Timothée Chalamet beat Adrien Brody to take best actor for “A Complete Unknown.” Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
And Adrien Brody, who has picked up prize after prize for “The Brutalist,” fell to Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.”
Twenty-nine-year-old Timmy shocked the gang when he straightforwardly declared, “I wanna be one of the greats!” It was good to see a Hollywood star not faux to be humble.
Chalamet hasn’t heard his identify referred to as out a lot this season, however there may be a lot of well-deserved love for him and his biopic. Brody most likely takes the stage on the Oscars, however Chalamet might barrel in like a rolling stone.
Demi Moore received best actress on the SAG Awards. REUTERS
And Demi Moore, who received the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for “The Substance,” roared back after dropping the BAFTA final week to “Anora’s” Mikey Madison.
Madison, 25, is spectacular. But G.I. Jane stays the feel-good choose and will seemingly take home her first Oscar at 62.
Although the show was fortunately abbreviated, to call it entertaining could be like calling TBS culturally related.
Jane Fonda’s lifetime achievement speech was — spoiler alert — political.
And who precisely wished “Nobody Wants This” actress Kristen Bell to host? She’s a likable star, sure, and she did it in 2018. But I don’t know how Bell ever wound up emceeing award exhibits — a tall order even for knowledgeable skilled comedians. Most of her bits have been groaners that despatched up her own profession.
Kristen Bell hosted the 2025 SAG Awards. REUTERS
Her parody of the “Frozen” music “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?,” “Do You Want to Be an Actor?” was pressured and awkward, as was her time-filling quest to seek out her favourite co-star.
There was a barstool reunion with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor Jason Segel, and an encounter with “Good Place” solid members Ted Danson and William Jackson Harper.
At the top, when Bell stated, “You all know who my favorite co-star is,” I yelled, “Who cares?!”
Speaking of “Who cares?!,” “Shogun” received ensemble in a drama collection, and “Only Murders in the Building” nabbed ensemble in a comedy collection.
Lucky Jean Smart and Martin Short didn’t even trouble displaying up to just accept their trophies.
Next Sunday are the Oscars. Finally.
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