SAG Awards: Big Night for ‘CODA’ Makes the Oscar Race More Confusing
thewrap.comAt first, Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards were all about the landmarks. By the end, they were all about throwing the Oscar race into turmoil.The first award of the night went to the SAG Awards’ first deaf winner (Troy Kotsur for “CODA”) and the second to its first Latina winner (Ariana DeBose for “West Side Story”).
Half an hour later came the first TV winner for a non-English performance (Lee Jung-Jae for “Squid Game”), followed immediately by the second TV winner for a non-English performance (Jung Ho-Yeon for “Squid Game”).But that was just an overture to a night that created a string of unsettling moments for “The Power of the Dog,” the Jane Campion movie that led all films in Oscar nominations with 12 and also went into the show with more individual SAG nominations, three, than any other movie.
If “The Power of the Dog” ends up not winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards could well be seen as the moment when fortunes turned for Jane Campion’s slow-burn Western.
The film came into the show without a nomination in the ensemble-cast category, but the last few years have shown that’s no longer essential.
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