Adam Sandler and Ana de Armas Get a SAG Boost, But Oscar Voters Might Disagree
thewrap.comAdam Sandler nudged out Tom Cruise, Ana de Armas and Eddie Redmayne got in while “The Fabelmans” stars Michelle Williams and Judd Hirsh did not and “Babylon” and “Women Talking” were nominated as the year’s best ensemble even though neither film received a single individual acting nomination.
Such were the vagaries of the 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, which were announced on Wednesday morning in a ramshackle Instagram Live presentation by Ashley Park and Haley Lu Richardson.In most cases, the 2,000-plus randomly-selected SAG members who made up the film and television nominating committees stuck to the favorites: Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh in the lead categories, Brendan Gleeson, Ke Huy Quan, Angela Bassett, Kerry Condon, Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu in supporting and “Babylon,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans” and “Women Talking” in the ensemble category.If there were surprises in the film categories, they were that a pair of Netflix stars, Sandler and de Armas, crashed the top five.
Sandler was up against Cruise and the “Top Gun: Maverick” juggernaut, though that was hardly considered an actors’ movie, while de Armas gave a well-received performance as Marilyn Monroe in a movie, “Blonde,” that was widely panned.Then again, so was “Babylon,” which now has the look of a true awards contender after its ensemble nomination, its negative reviews notwithstanding.SAG is the first of the four major Hollywood guilds to chime in with its film nominations, with the Directors Guild due later on Wednesday, the Producers Guild coming on Thursday, Jan.
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