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January 21, 2018
by Carla Hay
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
With three awards, the crime drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” was the top winner of the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. The ceremony took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on January 21, 2018. TBS and TNT had the live U.S. telecast of the show (at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT), which was hosted by Kristen Bell. It was the first time that the SAG Awards had a host.
“Three Billboards” won the prizes for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture; Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (for Frances McDormand); and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (for Sam Rockwell).
TV shows that won two awards each were “This Is Us,” “Big Little Lies” and “Veep.” Morgan Freeman received the Life Achievement Award at the show. He received the award from his former “Electric Company” co-star Rita Moreno, who was presented the same award by Freeman in 2014.
For the first time in SAG Awards history, all of the presenters who handed out the awards at the show were female. However, men weren’t left completely out, since individual cast members of both sexes from SAG-nominated movie introduced their films. Presenters at the award show included Halle Berry, Mandy Moore, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Brie Larson, Niecy Nash, Olivia Munn, Rosanna Arquette, Gabrielle Carteris, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, Dakota Fanning, Lupita Nyong’o, Gina Rodriguez, Emma Stone, Laura Linney, Marisa Tomei, Connie Britton, Megan Mullally, Leslie Mann, Sarah Silverman, Kelly Marie Tran.
From SAG-nominated movie casts, the presenters were McDormand, Rockwell and Woody Harrelson from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf from “Lady Bird”; Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams from “Get Out”; Mary J. Blige and Jason Clarke from “Mudbound”; and Kumail Nanjiani, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano from “The Big Sick.”
Prior to the televised ceremony, the honorees for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced during the SAG Awards Red Carpet Pre-Show webcast.
Two nominating panels—one for television and one for film—each composed of 2,500 randomly selected SAG-AFTRA union members from across the United States chose this year’s nominees.
The SAG Awards and Golden Globe Awards are considered the best predictors of who and what will get nominated for Oscars and Emmys. Both award shows tend to have many of the same nominees, especially in the movie categories. However, the SAG Awards (which are voted for by SAG-AFTRA members) and Golden Globe Awards (which are voted for the by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) can still have enough differences in their respective nominations to set them apart from each other.
Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2018 SAG Awards:
*=winner
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“The Big Sick”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“Mudbound”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”*
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”*
Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Judi Dench, “Victoria & Abdul”
Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”*
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Steve Carell, “Battle of the Sexes”
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Woody Harrelson,”Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”*
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
Hong Chau, “Downsizing”
Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”*
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
TELEVISION
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
“The Crown”
“Game of Thrones”
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
“Stranger Things”
“This Is Us”*
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us”*
Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
David Harbour, “Stranger Things”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Millie Bobby Brown, “Stranger Things”
Claire Foy, “The Crown”*
Laura Linney, “Ozark”
Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
“Black-ish”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“GLOW”
“Orange Is the New Black”
“Veep”*
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
Aziz Ansari, “Master of None”
Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
Sean Hayes, “Will & Grace”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”*
Marc Maron, “GLOW”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Uzo Aduba, “Orange Is the New Black”
Alison Brie, “GLOW”
Jane Fonda, “Grace and Frankie”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”*
Lily Tomlin, “Grace and Frankie”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Benedict Cumberbatch, “Sherlock”
Jeff Daniels, “Godless”
Robert De Niro, “The Wizard of Lies”
Geoffrey Rush, “Genius”
Alexander Skarsgard, “Big Little Lies”*
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Laura Dern, “Big Little Lies”
Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies”*
Jessica Lange, “Feud: Bette & Joan”
Susan Sarandon, “Feud: Bette & Joan”
Reese Witherspoon, “Big Little Lies”
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series
“Game of Thrones”*
“GLOW”
“Homeland”
“Stranger Things”
“The Walking Dead”
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
“Baby Driver”
“Dunkirk”
“Logan”
“War for The Planet of the Apes”
“Wonder Woman”*