Timothée Chalamet attends Searchlight Pictures’ ‘A Complete Unknown’ World Premiere on Dec 10, 2024 in Los Angeles.
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Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold may re-team for a new movie.
They’re considering new MotoGP heist pic ‘High Side’.
It’s based on an unpublished short story that has studios ready to bid.
If there’s one thing Hollywood loves, it’s discovering a new story –– especially if it’s yet to be published –– and leaping on it as potential source material for a movie.
Per Deadline, Writer Jamie Oliveira’s new short story ‘High Side’ is generating plenty of buzz –– and also attention from a star and director.
By way of update, it is coming together quickly –– Deadline reports that Paramount has snapped up the project with Chalamet and Mangold attached and Oliveira adapting his story.
Oliveira’s story focuses on Billy, a former MotoGP racer, who is haunted by a career-ending crash and a family legacy of abandonment but is drawn back into the world of high-speed risks and extreme danger.
He’s blindsided when his estranged older brother Cole resurfaces — just after their father’s death — with a proposition: use Billy’s talents for something bigger: robbing banks. Cole assembles a mismatched crew, including a woman who becomes Billy’s lover, and they begin knocking over small-town desert banks with speed and precision.
But as the stakes rise, Lennox, an FBI agent who has a complicated history with Cole, closes in as the crew preps its biggest score: a bank job timed with a big motorcycle parade…
Chalamet, who was among the Oscar nominees for ‘A Complete Unknown’ is careful when he picks his projects.
Next up in terms of release is ‘Marty Supreme’, a table tennis comedy drama directed by Josh Safdie, which will be in theaters on December 25th.
And he’s currently back filming the third outing for what is probably his best known role –– Chalamet is at work once again playing Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune: Part Three’, which continues his sprawling space opera drawn from Frank Herbert’s work.
Even with a deal in place , this one will need some time to come to fruition. But with Chalamet and Mangold seemingly excited about it, there’s a good chance for forward movement.
Timothée Chalamet attends Searchlight Pictures’ ‘A Complete Unknown’ World Premiere on Dec 10, 2024 in Los Angeles.
‘The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody took home Best Actor while ‘Anora’s Mikey Madison was named Best Actress.
Conan O’Brien was the ceremony’s host.
So that, then, was the 97th Academy Awards. Hosted by comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien, the 2025 Oscars ended with ‘Anora’ taking home Best Picture.
The indie film from A24 had been picking up other awards, but began to dominate the ceremony with Sean Baker taking Director, Editing and Original Screenplay and star Mikey Madison winning Best Actress in what was a surprise, since the “Demi Moore rebirth” narrative had seemed to be dominating.
And Baker’s four personal awards made Oscar history –– no-one has nabbed so many trophies in one night before. Also making the record books? ‘Wicked’ costume designed Paul Tazewell, who becomes the first black man to win his category and getting to celebrate that very fact in his speech.
In fact, outside of ‘Anora’s big shocker, it was a largely democratic Oscars, spreading the love around a few titles, including ‘The Brutalist’ (Cinematography, Score and Adrien Brody as Best Actor) ‘Wicked’ (which took the aforementioned Costume Design prize alongside Production Design), ‘Dune: Part Two’ (Sound and Visual Effects) and ‘Emilia Pérez,’ which saw Zoe Saldaña score yet another trophy on her triumphant awards season march.
‘Flow’ made waves as Best Animated Feature, seeing off the bigger studio likes of ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Inside Out 2,’ while in the Entirely Unsurprising section, Kieran Culkin took the stage for his latest Best Supporting Actor win for ‘A Real Pain.’
Conan O’Brien made for a snarky, witty host, and proved he’s got the goods for this particular gig. There were the political statements, emotional moments and, of course, a sprinkling of cross-promotional opportunities (such as having Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot of the forthcoming live-action ‘Snow White’ team up to hand out an award.
But the show also ran to three hours and 45 minutes, and even a funny musical bit by O’Brien at the start (featuring a ‘Dune’ sandworm on piano and a dancing Deadpool) about not wasting time couldn’t quite make up for that.
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There was also criticism of an overlong and weird Bond music tribute, while the choice of tune (“Ease on Down the Road” from ‘The Wiz’) to salute music legend Quincy Jones was also questionable.
Kieran Culkin accepts the Oscar® for Actor in a Supporting Role during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Zoe Saldaña accepts the Oscar® for Actress in a Supporting Role during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Peter Straughan accepts the Oscar® for Adapted Screenplay during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
‘A Complete Unknown,’ Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
‘Conclave,’ Screenplay by Peter Straughan – WINNER
‘Emilia Pérez,’ Screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
‘Nickel Boys,’ Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sean Baker accepts the Oscar® for Original Screenplay during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Clément Ducol, Jacques Audiard and Camille Dalmais accept the Oscar® for Original Song during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Lily-Rose Depp and Elle Fanning present the Oscar® for Costume Design to Paul Tazewell during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Richard King, Gareth John, and Ron Bartlett accept the Oscar® for Sound during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
‘A Complete Unknown,’ Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco
Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and Hamdan Ballal accepts the Oscar® for Documentary Feature Film during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Molly O’Brien and Lisa Remington accept the Oscar® for Documentary Short Film during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Walter Salles accepts the Oscar® for International Feature Film during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Gregory Zalcman accepts the Oscar® for Animated Feature Film during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales accept the Oscar® for Production Design during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
‘The Brutalist,’ Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia
‘Conclave,’ Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter
‘Nosferatu,’ Production Design: Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová
‘Wicked,’ Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales – WINNER
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Sean Baker accepts the Oscar® for Film Editing during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
With early frontrunners for Best Picture like ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Perez’ suffering major controversies, the award is now completely up for grabs with recent BAFTA and SAG winner ‘Conclave’ and PGA winner ‘Anora’ taking the lead.
Below are our predictions for who will win Oscars on Sunday at the 97th Academy Awards. We are only breaking down our predictions for the six major categories, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.
Let’s Begin!
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(L to R) Mikey Madison as Ani and Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan in ‘Anora’. Photo: Courtesy of NEON.
Without a doubt, this has been one of the strangest award seasons of all time.
‘Wicked’ began the season as a possible frontrunner, but after losing the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy to ‘Emilia Perez’, quickly saw its chances fade away. ‘Perez’ and ‘The Brutalist’, after its Golden Globe win for Best Morion Picture – Drama, seemed to be the two films that would battle it out for Oscar gold, but both movies have since suffered controversies that have affected their campaigns.
‘The Brutalist’ was revealed to have used AI to adjust some of the audio performances of the cast, while ‘Emilia Perez’ has suffered from recently discovered problematic social media posts from star Karla Sofía Gascón, which has basically ended her Oscar campaign. While both films will likely still take home some Oscars, Best Picture now seems a long shot for both.
At this point, ‘Conclave’ and ‘Anora’ seem to now be the frontrunners for Best Picture. ‘Conclave’ won the BAFTA for Best Picture, as well as the Outstanding Performance by a Cast from the SAG Awards. But ‘Anora’ has won the all important Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures award from the Producers Guild, putting both films in a race for the Oscars.
But it is worth mentioning that the Academy uses a preferential ballot for Best Picture, meaning that it is not the film with the most #1 votes that wins, but instead the movie with the most #1 and #2 votes combined. So the question really isn’t who people will vote for in the top spot, but more, who will get the most #2’s, # 3’s and #4’s. With the PGA win, and Sean Baker likely taking Best Director (more on that below), I’m putting my money on ‘Anora’ to win the gold when its all said and done.
(L to R) Sean Baker and DP Drew Daniels on the set of ‘Anora’. Photo: Courtesy of NEON.
Early in the season it looked like Brady Corbet for ‘The Brutalist’ or Jacques Audiard for ‘Emilia Pérez’ would be the frontrunners, that quickly changed after their films’ respective controversies.
‘Wicked’s Jon M. Chu won Best Director at the Critics Choice Awards, but unfortunately, he was not nominated in this category.
But after winning both Best Director at the Independent Spirit Awards and the all important Outstanding Directing – Feature Film from the Directors Guild, it now looks like Sean Baker is the frontrunner for Best Director.
Winning almost every major award this season, Adrien Brody is still the frontrunner to take home his second Oscar for ‘The Brutalist’.
However, while the AI controversy hasn’t completely destroyed his chances of winning, it has definitely hurt his otherwise perfect run, having recently lost Best Actor at the SAG Awards to Timothée Chalamet for ‘A Complete Unknown’. Also, keep in mind that the Oscars will be the first awards this season where the final votes will be tallied after ‘The Brutalist’s controversy took place.
Chalamet gave my favorite performance last year, and while I really hope he wins, I think Brody will still pull it out. Chalamet has only won SAG, and with Brody’s Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics Choice wins, he’s definitely still the one to beat.
Demi Moore has won every important award this season including Best Actress form the Golden Globes, Critics Choice and SAG, which firmly puts her in the frontrunner position.
However, Mikey Madison has won Best Actress from BAFTA and the Independent Spirit Awards, so she is hot on Moore’s heals.
But its also important to note that the Oscar ceremony will be the first time all season that ‘I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres will be competing in the same category has Moore and Madison, and Torres did win Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes.
However, much like Karla Sofía Gascón, Torres has also had her fair share of controversy from questionable actions in her past, that could affect her chances of winning.
That said, I still think nostalgia for Moore’s overall career will give her the win on Sunday.
This is the easiest category to predict. Kieran Culkin has dominated this category all season winning every Best Supporting Actor award along his way including the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, BAFTA and SAG, so I see no reason that his winning streak won’t continue all the way to the Oscar stage,
Zoe Saldaña as Emilia Pérez in ‘Emilia Pérez’. Photo: Netflix.
In another locked category, the ‘Emilia Pérez’ controversies do not seem to be affecting Zoe Saldaña’s chances of winning Best Supporting Actress. Saldaña has won every major award including Golden Globes, Critics Choice, BAFTA and SAG, and I think sh’e most likely to win again on Oscar night.
However, if ‘Conclave’ goes big and wins best picture, don’t count out a nostalgia win for veteran actress Isabella Rossellini … and we know the Oscars love to surprise us.
The 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards will air Sunday, February 23rd on Netflix. Photo: Netflix.
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Movie actors Timothée Chalamet and Kieran Culkin won at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
On the TV front, ‘Shogun’ did well, taking three awards.
The event was held on Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium.
This year’s movie awards season is careening towards its conclusion with next weekend’s Oscars, but this Sunday was the turn of the actors, with the Screen Actors Guild Awards, broadcast for the second time on Netflix and hosted once again by Kristen Bell.
With the focus, a little like the Critics Choice before it, on Los Angeles and the incredible impact of the wildfires on the city and its environs this year, there was time for a tribute to the first responders who fought the flames and provided aid.
But actors being actors, this was mostly a chance to celebrate, well, acting, as Bell launched into a monologue –– parodying a song from ‘Frozen,’ which we suppose she’s one of the few people who can still get away with that after this many years –– to look at various actors’ early jobs.
The 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards will air Sunday, February 23rd on Netflix. Photo: Netflix.
Otherwise, it was award show business as usual –– trophies were handed out, speeches read and jokes attempted.
The main movies up for ensemble had their casts out “presenting” each title, and those seemed particularly awkward, with little evidence of rehearsal or prep.
Other presenter duos seemed like they’d been imbibing or were simply nervous, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson stumbling through their spiel and even the steps in presenting an award. For reference, it goes read nominees, wait for nominee intro list, read winner.
As for those who claimed awards, there were the predictable ones: Kieran Culkin accepted yet another trophy for ‘A Real Pain’ and if there’s a nailed-on prospect for an Oscar, he’s surely at the top of the list. His rambling speech also began one of the night’s running gags, with several winners (and at least one presenter) referring to how heavy the “actor” award statuette is. Zoe Saldaña added more hardware for her trophy cabinet for ‘Emilia Pérez’, while cast members of ‘Shōgun,’ ‘Baby Reindeer’ and ‘The Penguin’ won more awards.
The 78th British Academy Film Awards will take place on February 16, 2025. Photo: BAFTA.
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‘Conclave,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’ won big at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards
‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘A Real Pain’ also did well.
The awards were handed out on February 16th in London.
The BAFTA Film Awards have been handed out this evening at a ceremony held at the Royal Festival Hall in London, hosted once more by former ‘Doctor Who’ actor David Tennant.
Dropping references to the current political climate and less pointed jokes at the expense of stars in the audience (he warned the assembled crowd that there would be no intermission as with ‘The Brutalist’ and to keep their speeches the opposite of their movies –– short.
‘Conclave,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’ won multiple awards, the former nabbing Best Original Screenplay, British film and the big trophy, Best Film, while the latter scored Best Director, Leading Actor (for Adrien Brody) Score and more. ‘Anora,’ meanwhile, saw lead Mikey Madison took the stage for ‘Anora.’
The likes of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Dune: Part Two’ mostly made do with technical awards, including Production Design, Costume, Sound and Visual Effects.
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As for Supporting Actor, that might as well be renamed The Kieran Culkin award given how many trophies the ‘A Real Pain’ actor has won this season. If there is a lock for an Oscar, he’s surely it.
And despite the recent social media controversy surrounding lead Karla Sofía Gascón, ‘Emilia Pérez’ went home with several awards, including Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldana and Film Not in the English Language.
There was brief confusion for fellow ‘Pérez’ actors Saldana and Selena Gomez, who stumbled over who had won the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, Producer, ultimately given to ‘Kneecap’ filmmaker Rich Peppiatt.
The Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Chelsea Handler, will broadcast LIVE on E! on Friday, February 7, 2025 (7:00 – 10:00pm ET/PT) from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The show will also be available to stream the next day on Peacock.
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The winners of the 30th Annual Critics Choice Film Awards include ‘Anora’ and ‘Wicked’
‘Emilia Perez’ and ‘The Substance’ also did well.
The ceremony was hosted by Chelsea Handler.
If you had to use a metaphor to describe the 2025 edition of the Critics Choice Awards, it would be Oprah Winfrey during her big giveaway days on her talk show, but with kudos instead of cars: you get a trophy! You get a trophy! You all get a trophy!
Yes, while ‘Anora’ missed out on all of its other categories, Sean Baker’s film about an exotic dancer who falls for –– and marries –– the spoiled spawn of a Russian oligarch took home Best Picture.
This year’s awards, hosted for the third time by Chelsea Handler (whose monologue proved to be both funny and pointed in places, even touching on the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni legal PR chaos) at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, was a typically jolly affair.
Yet it was tempered by plenty of references to the wildfires that have devastated chunks of the city’s hilly surroundings, and first responders were invited and saluted during the opening and in more than one speech.
Despite being snubbed by the Oscar nominations, it was ‘Wicked’ filmmaker Jon M. Chu who won Best Director, comically shouting out his shut-out by the Academy, quipping, “I’m gonna win that Oscar!”
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His film took three awards in total, including Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.
Also scoring a trio of trophies? ‘The Substance,’ for which Demi Moore won yet another Best Actress trophy along with Best Original Screenplay and the Hair and Make-Up award. And the controversy-hit ‘Emilia Pérez,’ which nabbed a Best Supporting Actress gong for Zoe Saldaña Best Song for “El Mal,” collected by the movie’s co-composer Camille and Best Foreign Language Film.
A few of the winners were entirely unsurprising; Kieran Culkin, who has been collecting hardware left, right and center, notched up another Best Supporting Actor award (though he wasn’t present at the show) for ‘A Real Pain’ and Adrien Brody won Best Actor for ‘The Brutalist.’
Actually a surprise? The seemingly forgotten ‘Challengers’ nabbing two, Best Editing and Best Score.
Here’s the full list of winners…
Critics Choice 2025: Film Nominees
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Mikey Madison as Ani in ‘Anora’. Photo: Courtesy of NEON.
The 97th Oscars will air live on March 2nd on ABC and Hulu.
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‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ are in contention for Oscars.
‘Wicked’ made the cut for Best Picture and other categories, though Jon M. Chu missed out on a directing nod.
The ceremony happens on March 2nd.
The 97th Academy Awards will be upon us before we know it, and actors Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott announced the Oscar nominees for the various categories Thursday morning.
As a result of the wildfires that have plagued Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, the Academy has extended its voting period, though it’s notable that more decisions still have to be made about final producer credits than in other years.
And the show’s producers have also recently said that the ceremony will honor Los Angeles, which faces an ongoing fire danger situation, while doing away with having the original songs performed live, raising eyebrows since Ryan Gosling and the “I’m Just Ken” team from ‘Barbie’ was one of the showstoppers last year.
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On the whole, the nominations are much as expected –– a lot of love for ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘A Complete Unknown’ and ‘Wicked,’ even if the latter missed out on some key categories, including director and adapted screenplay.
‘Emilia Pérez’ is this year’s Academy darling, with 13 nominations (an all-time record for a movie not in the English language), followed by ‘The Brutalist’ (seemingly unaffected by the recent batch of headlines about AI use to tweak some of the movie’s dialogue) and ‘Wicked’ with 10 apiece.
The Best Director list as usual skewed male, with just ‘The Substance’s Coralie Fargeat making the cut in her category.
Animated charmer ‘Flow,’ meanwhile, scored in its own category and made the International Film list.
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Now that the Golden Globes are over, the official Oscar race is about to begin!
It will start on January 23rd when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce the Oscar nominees, with the 97th Oscars Ceremony scheduled for March 2nd.
At this point, with no real frontrunner in the Best Picture race yet, it seems to be a competition between ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Conclave‘, ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘Wicked‘.
The Best Actor and Best Actress races seem to have four actors locked in each category, with several possible nominees battling it out for that last coveted spot. And while Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña are locks for nominations in the Supporting categories, the rest of the nominees are pretty much up for grabs.
Moviefone is making its Oscar nomination predictions for the major categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, ahead of the nominee announcements on January 23rd.
‘Conclave’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ are leading the BAFTA nomination pack.
‘The Brutalist’ and ‘A Complete Unknown’ also nabbed nominations.
The awards will be handed out on February 16th in London.
As the tragic wildfires continue to wreak havoc across Hollywood award bodies, with nomination announcements and ceremonies delayed or cancelled, the UK’s British Academy of Film and Television Arts is pushing ahead with their own annual celebration.
The nominations for this year’s BAFTA film awards have been announced, and it’s a good year for ‘Conclave’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ in particular, which were nominated for 12 and 11 awards respectively.
Beyond the big two, there was also good news for movies such as ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Anora,’ ‘Wicked’ and ‘A Complete Unknown,’ which have cropped up on a variety of other lists so far and are all expected to scoop various trophies once awards season can truly progress.
And this being the UK, there are naturally some categories that don’t crop up elsewhere, spotlighting British talent (which explains why Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz,’ which hasn’t exactly been grabbing up nominations, saw more love here.
What are the snubs and surprises of this year’s ‘BAFTA’ Film Awards?
Denzel Washington plays Macrinus in ‘Gladiator II’ from Paramount Pictures.
While ‘Gladiator II’ has had a hard time cracking nomination lists, we were surprised to see Denzel Washington shut out of the Supporting Actor line-up.
‘Paddington in Peru,’ meanwhile, the third film in the beloved bear franchise, had the biggest opening for a British film since 2021 and has made a whopping $43M in the UK, but reviews weren’t as favorable as the first two films in the series and the movie couldn’t secure a BAFTA nom even despite the new kids and family category this year.
Both previous ‘Paddington‘ movies received multiple BAFTA nominations.
The BAFTA Awards this year will be held at the Royal Festival Hall in London on February 16th, hosted once more by former ‘Doctor Who’ actor David Tennant.
The nominations for the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were announced on the morning of Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Initial plans to stream the nominations live with hosts Joey King and Cooper Koch were canceled due to the horrific fires that are ravaging the greater Los Angeles area, with the list of nominees posted online instead.
The nominees on the motion picture side provided a further twist to the impending Oscar race, as ‘Emilia Perez’ – which walked away with four prizes at last Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony – continued to rack up multiple nominations, including Best Ensemble, Best Female Lead Performance for Karla Sofía Garcón, and Best Female Supporting Performance for Zoe Saldaña.
But while the Globes’ other big winner, ‘The Brutalist,’ was represented here by a sole nomination for Adrien Brody in Best Male Lead Performance, the musical fantasy ‘Wicked’ was a SAG favorite, with nominations for Best Ensemble, Best Female Lead Performance for Cynthia Erivo, Best Female Supporting Performance for Ariana Grande, and Best Male Supporting Performance for Jonathan Bailey.
Also a surprise: while Jeremy Strong got the nod in the Best Male Supporting Performance category for his malevolent turn as Roy Cohn in ‘The Apprentice,’ star Sebastian Stan did not land a nomination for either his star turn in that or ‘A Different Man,’ for which he won the Golden Globe on Sunday.
On the television side, ‘Shōgun’ followed its Emmys and Golden Globes winning streak with four nominations, including Best Ensemble in a Drama Series, two Best Male Actor nods, and a Best Female Actor nom. Additional multiple nominees in both the ensemble and individual acting categories included ‘The Bear,’ ‘The Diplomat,’ and ‘Hacks.’
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The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will stream live globally on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.
