Music-led films Wicked and A Complete Unknown and TV shows Shôgun and The Bear lead this year’s Screen Actors Guild nominations.
Irish actors Nicola Coughlan, Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott received TV acting nominations. Coughlan is nominated for best female actor in a drama series for her role in Bridgerton. Farrell and Scott are both nominated in the best male actor in a TV or limited series category for their performances in The Penguin and Ripley, respectively. Farrell won a Golden Globe on Sunday for the same role.
Blockbuster musical Wicked heads up the film side with five nominations including for actors Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, as well as the ensemble. It was also nominated for stunt ensemble. The film, based on the long-running Broadway hit, has made more than $680 million at the global box office.
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The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown was next with four nods, for actors Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton and Monica Barbaro, as well as the ensemble.
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The ensemble award, seen as the biggest of the night, will see the two films compete alongside Anora, Conclave and Emilia Pérez.
In the best actress category, Erivo will face The Last Showgirl’s Pamela Anderson, Anora’s Mikey Madison, The Substance’s Demi Moore and Emilia Pérez’s Karla Sofía Gascón. The category saw major snubs for Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
In the best actor category, Chalamet faces Queer’s Daniel Craig, Conclave’s Ralph Fiennes, Sing Sing’s Colman Domingo and The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody. Sebastian Stan failed to make the cut for either The Apprentice or A Different Man.
For supporting actress, Grande and Barbaro will compete alongside The Piano Lesson’s Danielle Deadwyler, The Last Showgirl’s Jamie Lee Curtis and Emilia Pérez’s Zoe Saldana. Notable absences in this category include Isabella Rossellini, Selena Gomez and Felicity Jones.
For supporting actor, Norton and Bailey face A Real Pain favourite Kieran Culkin, Anora’s Yura Borisov and The Apprentice’s Jeremy Strong. Gladiator II’s Denzel Washington and The Brutalist’s Guy Pearce were both snubbed.
The TV categories were led by acclaimed historical epic Shôgun, which scored five nominations, followed by The Bear, with four, and The Diplomat, with three.
The drama ensemble category will see Shôgun and The Diplomat face off against Slow Horses, Bridgerton and the first season of The Day of the Jackal. The comedy ensemble has The Bear competing with Hacks, Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building and Shrinking.
The lead actor in a drama series category is led by Shôgun favourite Hiroyuki Sanada, who has already won an Emmy and Golden Globe for his role, alongside his costar Tadanobu Asano, Slow Horses’ Gary Oldman, The Day of the Jackal’s Eddie Redmayne and The Old Man’s Jeff Bridges.
The lead actress in a drama category is led by another Shôgun favourite, Anna Sawai, a winner of both an Emmy and a Golden Globe, who will compete with The Diplomat’s Keri Russell and Allison Janney, Matlock’s Kathy Bates and Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan.
Bates has also scored a nomination in the lead actress in a TV movie or limited series category for The Great Lillian Hall, where she faces Cate Blanchett for Disclaimer, Jodie Foster for True Detective: Night Country, Lily Gladstone for Under the Bridge, Cristin Milioti for The Penguin and Jessica Gunning for Baby Reindeer.
Gunning’s costar Richard Gadd leads the lead actor in a TV movie or limited series line-up next to Disclaimer’s Kevin Kline, Ripley’s Andrew Scott, The Penguin’s Colin Farrell and Monsters’ Javier Bardem.
The category of lead actress in a comedy series is led by two stars of The Bear – Ayo Edebiri and Lisa Colón-Zayas – who face Hacks favourite Jean Smart, Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson and Kristen Bell for the first season of Netflix breakout Nobody Wants This.
Bell’s costar, Adam Brody, leads the male equivalent line-up alongside A Man on the Inside’s Ted Danson, Shrinking’s Harrison Ford, The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and, beating out his costar Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building’s Martin Short.
The ceremony will take place on 23 February with host, and nominee, Kristen Bell.
Wednesday’s planned in-person announcement, set to be led by actors Joey King and Cooper Koch, was cancelled in response to the California wildfires with a press release sent out instead. More than 30,000 people are now under an evacuation order and Hollywood has seen a number of film and TV premieres also cancelled.
The announcement comes just days after The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, Shôgun and Hacks picked up major awards at the Golden Globes with actors including Demi Moore, Adrien Brody, Jean Smart, Kieran Culkin and Colin Farrell among the winners.
Last year’s awards were led by major wins for Oppenheimer, Succession and The Bear. This year’s Oscar nominations will be unveiled on January 17th. – Guardian
