This award season is getting more volatile. With the announcement for the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations on Jan. 8,
Wicked is gaining ground with the most noms (five) after having won only one award (for Box Office Achievement, meaning making the most money) at Sunday night's Golden Globes. There were also major snubs in several categories with previous front-runners such as Nicole Kidman (
Babygirl), Angelina Jolie (
Maria), and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (
Hard Truths) not being mentioned. Golden Globe winners Fernanda Torres (
I'm Still Here) and Sebastian Stan (
A Different Man) also failed to make the cut. Comeback kids Demi Moore (GG winner for
The Substance) and Pamela Anderson (
The Last Showgirl) earned noms.
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| Demi Moore in The Substance. |
The SAG announcement was to have been made live by actors Cooper Koch and Joey King, but the information was disseminated by press release instead due to dangers posed by the Los Angeles wild fires. The Awards will be presented on Netflix on Feb. 23 and Kristin Bell will host for the second year in a row. F/X's
Shogun which did well at the GGs with four awards, led the SAG TV pack with five nods. I'm most upset that Jean-Baptiste is not nominated because it's not good news for her Oscar prospects even though she has won the three top critics awards (NY, LA and National Society of Film Critics). She will most probably get a BAFTA nom and even the award itself since she is a Brit, but she could miss making the Oscar list since Hollywood loves a comeback story and Moore and Anderson could knock her off.
The Directors Guild of America also announced their nominations today, and had their share of snubs. While Wicked triumphed at the SAGs, its auteur John M. Chu was left out of the DGAs as was Denis Villenueve for Dune Part 2. (Winners will be announced on Feb. 8.) The five motion picture nominees for the DGA (all first-time nominees) are
- Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez”
- Sean Baker for “Anora”
- Edward Berger for “Conclave”
- Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist”
- James Mangold for “A Complete Unknown”
A complete list of SAG nominees follows:
