Trial of the Chicago 7 takes top honours at SAG Awards
by Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 5, 2021 8:56 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 5, 2021 at 8:58 am EDT
In this video grab provided by the SAG Awards, Helen Mirren presents the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture during the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on April 4, 2021. (SAG Awards via AP)
The starry cast of Aaron Sorkin’s 1960s courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize Sunday at a virtual Screen Actors Guild Awards where actors of colour, for the first time, swept the individual film awards.
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(TL to BR) John Carroll Lynch, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alex Sharp, Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton, Mark Rylance, Frank Langella and Kevin Harrison Jr. accept the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ( The Trial of the Chicago 7 ) during this year SAG awards ceremony held virtually on April 4.
By Jake Coyle | April 5, 2021 | 5:58 a.m. ET.
The starry cast of Aaron Sorkin’s 1960s courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize Sunday at a virtual Screen Actors Guild Awards where actors of color, for the first time, swept the individual film awards.
The 27th SAG Awards, presented by the Hollywood actors’ guild SAG-Aftra, were a muted affair and not just because the red carpet-less ceremony was condensed to a pre-recorded, Zoom-heavy, one-hour broadcast on TBS and TNT. The perceived Academy Awards frontrunner Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” wasn’t nominated for best ensemble, making this year’s postponed SAG Awards less of an Oscar preview than it is most years.
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Four actors made Screen Actors Guild Awards history on Sunday after being the first people of color to sweep the top four categories in film acting.
The SAG Awards are a closely watched Oscar harbinger. Actors make up the largest branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and SAG winners often line up with Oscar ones.
Last year, Parasite went on to win best picture at the Academy Awards, and all of the individual SAG winners Renée Zellweger, Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix won at the Oscars, too.