The cast of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic won Best Ensemble at the 30th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, with Oppenheimer actors Cillian Murphy (as J. Robert Oppenheimer) and Robert Downey Jr (as Lewis Strauss) also winning Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, respectively.
The female equivalents were won by Lily Gladstone, for her leading role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and by Da’Vine Joy Randolph for her take on Mary Lamb in Alexander Payne’s the Holdovers.
Members of Oppenheimer’s cast won three of the four categories they were nominated for, only missing out on best female actor. Barbie, meanwhile – the highest grossing film of 2023 – was nominated for the same number of awards, but missed out on every category at this year’s awards, which took place on Saturday, in Los Angeles.
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As for television, the satirical comedy Succession earned the most nominations (five, with one win), while the comedy-drama The Bear won the most awards (three).
Steven Yuen and Ali Wong won Best Male and Female Actor in a Comedy Series, respectively, for their roles in Lee Sung Jin’s Beef. Elizabeth Debicki won Best Female Actor in a Drama Series for portraying Princess Diana in the Crown, while Pedro Pascal won Best Male Actor in Drama Series for playing Joel in the Last of Us.
Founded in 1995, the SAG Awards recognise outstanding performances in movies and television – as determined by the the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, a US labour union that made headlines last year for carrying out an almost four-month-long strike.
