Tonight’s the night…the actors have spoken!
Unlike the award shows that have come before them, and the ones that will happen next, the Screen Actors Guild Awards is allabout the actors.
We know that all awards shows are about the celebrities or the talent, but the SAG Awards are awarded by the actors themselves to their peers, so there’s a whole different level of prestige when winning one of these trophies.
The Screen Actors Guild Awards winners can diverge from other awards season kudos due to the sheer size of the org’s voting body. That often means using them as a bellwether for Oscar or Emmy glory can be difficult. Boasting around 160,000 members from across the country, voters frequently give the ensemble awards in TV and film to nominees with the largest, most accomplished casts, and have been known to gravitate toward crowd pleasers over critical acclaim.
But it’s still a good sign of what actors, who represent a large chunk of the Academy voting body, are thinking mid-way through the awards calendar. This will be the latest chance for Oscar contenders like “A Star is Born” (which leads all SAG nominations with four nods), “BlacKkKlansman” and “The Favourite” to earn some momentum on the film side. And in TV, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Ozark” lead all challengers, with four noms each.
Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, this year’s SAG Awards take place at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 27, and are the first major awards to be announced since Tuesday’s Academy Award nominations.
Later this evening, actors from both film and television will arrive at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles to celebrate one another at the 2019 SAG Awards (airing on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) and it’s going to be a big show.
This year marks the second year that the show will have a host with Megan Mullally taking over hosting duties from 2018’s leader Kristen Bell.
While we don’t know who will win just yet, we do know that director Alan Alda has beennamed the 55th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award.
Plus, Crazy Rich Asians star Harry Shum Jr. was dubbed the award show’s ambassador.
All the entertainment news outlets have their predictions you can find online.
We thought it would be interesting to get a sports site’s predictions that using predictive analysis from all the trades predictions. Check out from Goldderby.com their predictions at Winner predictions ranked in all 15 categories at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
The SAG Awards begin at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on Sunday, Jan. 27. Awards in 6 film and 9 TV categories will be handed out at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during a two-hour ceremon that airs live nationwide on TNT and TBS .
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