Award season could also be very lengthy, however Sunday night time’s Display screen Actors Guild Awards had been mercifully brief.
Two fast hours, out and in. Different interminable Hollywood occasions, please take observe.
The ceremony honoring performers on the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is the final main step on the highway to the Oscars, and a pitstop on the cul-de-sac to the Emmys.
The SAGs, an embarrassingly glitchy broadcast on Netflix, are a helpful bellwether for the Academy Awards. A big variety of Oscar voters are actors. So, a pair March 2 contests had been just about sewn up Sunday night time.
Kieran Culkin, who gained Finest Supporting Actor for his tender and humorous flip in “A Real Pain,” can begin training his Oscar speech. However he’s not the preparation sort, as evidenced by his wacky improv set on Sunday.
You’ll be able to guess that Culkin will certainly get to do his stand-up routine once more on the Dolby Theater subsequent week.
And, regardless of the controversy surrounding “Emilia Perez” lead Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana took house one other Finest Supporting Actress trophy for her emotional efficiency within the bizarre Spanish-language musical. That’s all wrapped up.
However SAG stated, “Thank you, next” to Ariana Grande, who has but to win a lot as a sticker for enjoying Glinda in “Wicked.” Her second likelihood will come subsequent yr for the second a part of the “Wizard of Oz” riff.
“Wicked” obtained an awakening as impolite as having a home dropped on you — it went house completely empty-handed. Not so standard, it seems.
However a number of races had been turbo-charged.
“Conclave,” the drama a few scandalous election of a brand new pope (speak about unlucky timing) unexpectedly gained Finest Ensemble, SAG’s Finest Image equal. That’s contemporary off a victory on the BAFTAs in London.
The Comeback Catholic beat “Anora,” the New York-set stripper Cinderella story that had momentum after taking the Producers Guild, Administrators Guild, Writers Guild and Critics’ Selection Awards.
I feel the five-boroughs comedy nonetheless comes out on high. The opposite guilds adore it. However the class will, for a refreshing change, be a nailbiter.
And Adrien Brody, who has picked up prize after prize for “The Brutalist,” fell to Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.”
Twenty-nine-year-old Timmy shocked the group when he straightforwardly declared, “I wanna be one of the greats!” It was good to see a Hollywood star not fake to be humble.
Chalamet hasn’t heard his title known as out a lot this season, however there’s plenty of well-deserved love for him and his biopic. Brody in all probability takes the stage on the Oscars, however Chalamet may barrel in like a rolling stone.
And Demi Moore, who gained the Golden Globe and Critics’ Selection Award for “The Substance,” roared again after dropping the BAFTA final week to “Anora”’s Mikey Madison.
Madison, 25, is spectacular. However G.I. Jane stays the feel-good choose and can doubtless take house her first Oscar at 62.
Though the present was fortunately abbreviated, to name it entertaining could be like calling TBS culturally related.
Jane Fonda’s lifetime achievement speech was — spoiler alert — political.
And who precisely needed “Nobody Wants This” actress Kristen Bell to host? She’s a likable star, positive, and he or she did it in 2018. However I don’t know the way Bell ever wound up emceeing award reveals — a tall order even for skilled skilled comedians. Most of her bits had been groaners that despatched up her personal profession.
Her parody of the “Frozen” music “Do You Want To Build A Snowman?,” “Do You Want To Be An Actor?” was compelled and awkward, as was her time-filling quest to seek out her favourite co-star.
There was a barstool reunion with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor Jason Segel, and an encounter with “Good Place” forged members Ted Danson and William Jackson Harper.
On the finish, when Bell stated, “You all know who my favorite co-star is,” I yelled, “Who cares?!”
Talking of “Who cares?!,” “Shogun” gained Ensemble in a Drama Sequence, and “Only Murders in the Building” nabbed Ensemble in a Comedy Sequence.
Fortunate Jean Good and Martin Quick didn’t even hassle exhibiting as much as settle for their trophies.
Subsequent Sunday are the Oscars. Lastly.
