Netflix's The Trial Of The Chicago 7 takes top honours at Screen Actors Guild Awards
The starry cast of Aaron Sorkin's 1960s court drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 took the tiptop prize on Sunday (Apr 4) at a virtual Screen Actors Guild Awards where actors of colour, for the outset time, swept the individual film awards.
The 27th SAG Awards, presented by the Hollywood actors' guild SAG-Aftra, were a muted affair – and not merely because the cherry-red carpet-less anniversary was condensed to a pre-recorded, Zoom-heavy, 1-hour circulate on TBS and TNT. The perceived Academy Awards frontrunner – Chloe Zhao's Nomadland – wasn't nominated for best ensemble, making this year'southward postponed SAG Awards less of an Oscar preview than it is most years.
Notwithstanding, the win for Netflix's The Trial Of The Chicago 7 marked the first fourth dimension a moving-picture show from any streaming service won the society's ensemble award. Written and directed by Sorkin, The Trial Of The Chicago 7 had been set for theatrical release by Paramount Pictures before the pandemic hit, leading to its sale to Netflix. The streamer is still after its get-go best-film win at the Oscars.
Frank Langella, who plays the judge who presided over the 1969 prosecution of activists arrested during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, drew parallels between that era's unrest and today's while accepting the award on behalf of the cast.
"'God give the states leaders,' said the Rev Martin Luther King earlier he was shot downwards in cold blood on this very date in 1968 – a profound injustice," said Langella, citing events leading up to those dramatised in The Trial Of The Chicago 7. "The Rev King was correct. Nosotros need leaders to guide us toward hating each other less."
The win came over two other Netflix releases – Ma Rainey'southward Black Bottom and Da 5 Bloods – equally well equally Amazon'south One Night In Miami and A24's Minari. Had Lee Isaac Chung'southward Korean-American family drama Minari won, it would have been the second straight year a motion picture largely not in English won SAG'due south top award. Last year, the cast of Parasite triumphed, becoming the first cast from a not-English language linguistic communication film to do so.
The SAG Awards are a closely watched Oscar harbinger. Actors make up the largest co-operative of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and SAG winners often line upward with Oscar ones. Last year, Parasite went on to win all-time picture at the Academy Awards, and all of the individual SAG winners – Renee Zellweger, Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix – won at the Oscars, also.
Those awards this year went to a group entirely of actors of colour, potentially setting the phase for a historically various slate of Oscar winners: Chadwick Boseman, best male actor for Ma Rainey'due south Black Bottom; Viola Davis, best female thespian for Ma Rainey's Blackness Bottom; Youn Yuh-Jung, best female supporting actor for Minari; and Daniel Kaluuya, best male supporting actor for Judas And The Black Messiah.
Of those, Davis' win was the about surprising in a category that has often belonged to Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) or Frances McDormand (Nomadland). It's Davis' fifth private SAG award.
"Thank you, August, for leaving a legacy for actors of colour that we can relish the balance of our lives," said Davis, referring to playwright Baronial Wilson.
Every bit it has throughout the awards flavor, best male thespian again belonged to Boseman for his final performance. Boseman, who died concluding August at historic period 43, had already set a record for almost SAG film nominations – four – in a single year. He was also posthumously nominated for his supporting role in Da 5 Bloods and shared in the ensemble nominations for both Spike Lee'south film and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
It was the SAG Awards where Boseman gave one of his near memorable speeches. At the guild'southward 2022 awards, Boseman spoke on behalf of the Black Panther bandage when the film won the top honor. "We all know what it'due south like to be told that in that location is non a place for you to exist featured," Boseman said then. "Nonetheless y'all are young, gifted and blackness."
The Academy Awards frontrunner, Nomadland missed out on a best-ensemble nomination possibly because its bandage is composed of largely non-professional actors. Zhao's film previously won at the highly predictive Producers Order Awards, as well as at the Golden Globes. The Trial Of The Chicago 7, up for best picture at the Oscars and four other awards, could pose a challenge to the frontrunner.
In an interview following the pre-taping of the award for The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Langella called the virtual experience much more civilised. "I'm in my bedroom slippers," he said from New York's Hudson Valley. "I have no pants on," added his co-star Michael Keaton.
Eddie Redmayne, who plays Tom Hayden in the film, credited Sorkin and casting managing director Francine Maisler for assembling such a disparate grouping of actors – including Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance, Yahya Abdul-Mateen Two and Jeremy Potent – into an ensemble.
"It was like a disharmonism of unlike types of music, whether it was jazz or stone or classical - only all of that meeting under Aaron. He was the conductor, almost," said Redmayne. "It was a joy twenty-four hours and solar day out to lookout man these corking and different and varied actors slugging it out."
In television categories, the ensembles of Schitt's Creek (for comedy series) and The Crown (for drama series) added to their string of awards. Other winners included Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit), Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso), Jason Bateman (Ozark) and Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is Truthful).
The awards are typically the highest profile upshot for the Screen Actors Club, though the matrimony's faceoff earlier this yr with former President Donald Trump may have drawn more headlines. After the guild prepared to expel Trump (credits include The Apprentice, Home Alone ii) for his role in the Capitol anarchism, Trump resigned from SAG-Aftra.
(Source: AP)
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