{"id":199626,"date":"2019-01-28T03:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T08:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199626"},"modified":"2019-01-28T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T08:09:45","slug":"black-panther-star-is-born-up-for-sag-awards-top-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/28\/black-panther-star-is-born-up-for-sag-awards-top-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Black Panther,’ ‘Star Is Born’ up for SAG Awards’ top honour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cBlack Panther\u201d took the award for best ensemble of stunt performers, one that \u201cGLOW,\u201d the Netflix series about professional women wrestlers, won on the television side. (File Photo<\/a>: @blackpanther\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d are among the films vying for the top prize at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ryan Coogler’s superhero hit started with a win before the telecast was to begin at 8 p.m. EST on TNT and TBS. \u201cBlack Panther\u201d took the award for best ensemble of stunt performers, one that \u201cGLOW,\u201d the Netflix series about professional women wrestlers, won on the television side.<\/p>\n

The SAG Awards are one of the most reliable bellwethers of the Academy Awards, but several of this year’s top Oscar contenders failed to land a best ensemble nomination.<\/p>\n

The two leading Oscar nominees \u2014 \u201cRoma\u201d and \u201cThe Favourite\u201d \u2014 were bypassed by the actors guild for a field that also includes \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d and \u201cA Star Is Born,\u201d which led all films with four nominations. \u201cThe Favourite\u201d still earned nods for its three lead actresses \u2014 Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz \u2014 but \u201cRoma\u201d was shut out entirely. Both films landed 10 Oscar nods Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The SAG Awards also have something the Oscars don’t: a host. Megan Mullally will emcee the show from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Tom Hanks will present Alan Alda, who in July revealed that he had been living with Parkinson’s disease, with the Life Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

The best picture winner at the Academy Awards has always first been nominated for best ensemble by the SAG Awards except in 1996, when \u201cBraveheart\u201d won best picture, and last year, when Guillermo del Toro’s \u201cThe Shape of Water\u201d overcame the SAG omission to win best picture. The actors guild instead awarded \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\u201d its top prize.<\/p>\n

Actors easily make up the largest percentage of the academy, so their preferences can have an especially large impact on the Oscar race.<\/p>\n

This year’s picks, chosen by the 2,500 nominating members of SAG-AFTRA, included a few head scratchers. If the guild liked the cast of \u201cThe Favourite\u201d well enough to nominate three of its stars, why did it prefer the ensemble of \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d a film widely seen as Rami Malek’s one-man show?<\/p>\n

In television categories, \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d and \u201cOzark\u201d led with four nominations each. \u201cBarry,\u201d \u201cGLOW,\u201d \u201cThe Handmaid’s Tale\u201d and \u201cThe Kominsky Method\u201d trailed close behind with three nominations each.<\/p>\n

Up for best ensemble in comedy are \u201cAtlanta,\u201d \u201cBarry,\u201d \u201cGLOW,\u201d \u201cThe Kominsky Method\u201d and \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.\u201d The drama series ensemble nominees are: \u201cThe Americans,\u201d \u201cBetter Call Saul,\u201d \u201cThe Handmaid’s Tale,\u201d \u201cOzark\u201d and \u201cThis Is Us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of this year’s show, the Screen Actors Guild also took the unusual step of publicly criticizing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for pressuring stars to appear only on the Oscars. The film academy has declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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