This Year’s SAG Award Nominations Righted All the Golden Globes’ Wrongs

"Da 5 Bloods," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "I May Destroy You" finally get their due

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Viola Davis in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"
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Yesterday, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and they were extremely bad. In a year that saw a slew of excellent Black-led ensemble films, none were nominated in the Best Picture category, and Spike Lee’s highly lauded Da 5 Bloods failed to earn a single nomination in any category. On the TV side, Michaela Coel’s groundbreaking I May Destroy You was completely snubbed, while Netflix’s Emily in Paris — slammed by critics — earned two nods.

But today, the Screen Actors Guild announced the nominations for its annual awards, and fortunately, they’re much better. Coel is nominated for I May Destroy You, and four out of the five nominees for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture — the closest equivalent the SAG Awards, which are acting specific, have to a Best Picture — mostly consist of minority actors. Minari, which follows a Korean-American family and was relegated solely to the Globes’ Best Foreign Language Film category, earned a nod in that category as well as acting nominations for stars Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-Jung. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Da 5 Bloods, One Night in Miami and Judas and the Black Messiah all also earned recognition, and the late Chadwick Boseman made history as the first actor to be nominated for four SAG Awards in a single year. (Boseman is nominated for Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Best Supporting Actor for Da 5 Bloods and in the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture category for both films.)

You can check out the complete nominations below. The SAG Awards will air on TBS and TNT on Sunday, April 4.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

Bill Camp, The Queen’s Gambit

Daveed Diggs, Hamilton

Hugh Grant, The Undoing

Ethan Hawke, The Good Lord Bird

Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America

Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You

Nicole Kidman, The Undoing

Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit

Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Jason Bateman, Ozark

Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us

Josh O’Connor, The Crown

Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Regé-Jean Page, Bridgerton

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Gillian Anderson, The Crown

Olivia Colman, The Crown

Emma Corrin, The Crown

Julia Garner, Ozark

Laura Linney, Ozark

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Nicholas Hoult, The Great

Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek

Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek

Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso

Ramy Youssef, Ramy

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Christina Applegate, Dead to Me

Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me

Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant

Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek

Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Better Call Saul

Bridgerton

The Crown

Lovecraft Country

Ozark

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Dead to Me

The Flight Attendant

The Great

Schitt’s Creek

Ted Lasso

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series

The Boys

Cobra Kai

Lovecraft Country

The Mandalorian

Westworld

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Anthony Hopkins, The Father

Gary Oldman, Mank

Steven Yeun, Minari

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Amy Adams, Hillbilly Elegy

Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman

Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods

Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Jared Leto, The Little Things

Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy

Olivia Colman, The Father

Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Helena Zengel, News of the World

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Da 5 Bloods

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Minari

One Night in Miami

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Da 5 Bloods

Mulan

News of the World

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Wonder Woman 1984

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