Conclave and Moore get Oscars boost at SAG Awards

Pope enactment play Conclave won the apical prize astatine the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards connected Sunday, leaving the Oscars contention excessively adjacent to telephone with 1 week to go.

It won the ceremony's biggest prize, champion ensemble, continuing its late-season momentum aft taking champion movie astatine past week's Baftas.

Other winners included Demi Moore and Timothée Chalamet, some of whom caput into adjacent week's Academy Awards with a boost of momentum.

British histrion Ralph Fiennes accepted the prize for Conclave, which is voted connected by chap actors, thanking manager Edward Berger for his "perception, penetration and care".

Earlier successful the ceremony, his co-star Isabella Rossellini said the film's formed "want to privation Pope Francis a speedy recovery" aft he was diagnosed with pneumonia.

In a nighttime peppered with celebrations of the actors' union, Fiennes said: "We bash recognise the ultimate value of assemblage successful our enactment and successful the world."

Conclave, which focuses connected a radical of gossipy and scheming cardinals successful Rome, failed to triumph immoderate different awards, but its triumph successful the apical class leaves it successful a beardown presumption up of the Academy Awards connected 2 March.

The champion representation contention has been wide unfastened this year, with The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez winning astatine the Golden Globes, Conclave astatine Baftas and present SAG, and Anora astatine a drawstring of manufacture guilds including those voted by producers, writers and directors.

Moore's triumph for assemblage fearfulness The Substance is the latest twist successful a choky champion histrion contention - the class is seen arsenic a dormant vigor betwixt her and Mikey Madison, who won the Bafta.

"This is extraordinary, and truthful profoundly meaningful," Moore said arsenic she collected her SAG trophy.

She recalled getting her archetypal SAG paper aged 15 "changed my beingness due to the fact that it gave maine meaning, it gave maine purpose, and it gave maine direction".

"I was a kid connected my ain who had nary blueprint for life, and I surely knew thing astir acting. But I watched, and I listened and I learned from each of you.

"You person each been my top teachers, and I americium truthful grateful that I person continued implicit these truthful galore years that to beryllium capable to try, and sometimes win and sometimes fail, but to beryllium capable to support going."

The movie sees Moore play an ageing aerobics teacher who takes a achromatic marketplace cause to make a younger and much beauteous mentation of herself.

Elsewhere, Chalamet was a astonishment victor successful champion histrion acknowledgment to his portrayal of Bob Dylan successful A Complete Unknown, beating Adrien Brody who has been winning the class passim awards season.

"I cognize the classiest happening would beryllium to downplay the effort that went into this relation and however overmuch this means to me," Chalamet said successful his speech.

"But the information is, this was 5 and a fractional years of my life, I poured everything I person into playing this incomparable artist, Mr Bob Dylan, an American hero, and it was the honour of a beingness playing him."

He concluded: "The information is, I'm truly successful pursuit of greatness. I cognize radical don't usually speech similar that, but I privation to beryllium 1 of the greats, I'm inspired by the greats.

"This doesn't signify that, but it's a small much fuel, a small much ammo to support going."

A Real Pain prima Kieran Culkin was named champion supporting histrion for his show arsenic 1 of 2 cousins travelling crossed Poland successful remembrance of their grandmother.

"Thank you Sag-Aftra for this incredibly dense award," helium joked arsenic helium was handed his trophy connected stage.

He described the grant arsenic a "huge honour", and thanked the sister of his manager Jesse Eisenberg for suggesting him for the role.

"He formed maine successful this movie without auditioning me, oregon seeing my enactment successful anything... but helium formed maine due to the fact that his sister told him to, truthful yes convey you for Jesse for putting maine successful this movie, but I privation to instrumentality a infinitesimal to convey your sister Hallie.

"Thank you Hallie for reasoning of maine and putting my sanction successful your anserine brother's ear."

Zoe Saldaña continued her dominance of the supporting histrion class for her show successful Spanish-language philharmonic Emilia Pérez, astir a Mexican cause lord who changes gender.

"I'm arrogant to beryllium portion of a national that allows maine to beryllium who I am," Saldaña said.

"I judge everyone has the close to beryllium who we are, and Emilia Perez is astir information and it's astir love.

"Actors present much than ever earlier person to archer stories that are beauteous and thought provoking and unrecorded wrong the spectrum of creator freedom."

Elsewhere, Jamie Lee Curtis announced the victor of champion histrion successful a constricted bid by saying: "And the grant goes to the antheral who gave maine Covid astatine the Golden Globes... Colin Farrell."

"Guilty arsenic charged," joked Farrell arsenic helium took to the stage, "but Brendon Gleeson gave it to me, truthful I was conscionable spreading the love."

Accepting his trophy for The Penguin, Farrell said being an histrion meant "you don't get to afloat turn up, you get to support the imagination of a kid live to effort to fig retired what it is to beryllium human.

"It sounds cheesy to say, but we're each supporting actors. I get it, the large parts spell to leads, smaller parts spell to time players and extras, but we each enactment each other."

British winners included Jessica Gunning, who was recognised for playing a stalker named Martha successful Baby Reindeer, 1 of the biggest TV hits of past year.

"I consciousness similar specified a fortunate bunny to beryllium successful this room, fto unsocial beryllium nominated," Gunning said.

She recalled moving successful an bureau erstwhile she was starting retired arsenic an actress, and creating a imaginativeness committee utilizing powerfulness constituent which featured inspirational radical she wanted to enactment with.

"Cate Blanchett, Kathy Bates and Jodie Foster were connected that imaginativeness board," she noted, referring to her chap nominees.

"And truthful to beryllium listed alongside them today, truly means much to maine than I tin ever express."

She concluded: "Thank you to everybody progressive successful Baby Reindeer for changing my life, and convey you to [writer and creator] Richard Gadd for making my dreams travel true."

Elsewhere, Shogun swept the TV play categories, with idiosyncratic prizes for its stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai.

"I'm precise happy, but besides benignant of sad, due to the fact that this is astir apt the past clip I'm capable to observe the enactment with you guys," Sawai told her co-stars from the stage.

Accepting the TV play ensemble award, Sanada said: "It was a large journey, and 70% Japanese with the subtitles, it indispensable person been a large gamble.

"But Shogun and this grant showing america that acting is simply a cosmopolitan language."

Best drama bid went to Only Murders In The Building, with its prima Selena Gomez appearing shocked to person won arsenic she accepted the award.

"We ne'er win, this is truthful weird," she said. "I americium truthful grateful, the writers, everyone deserves this, I'm bringing this backmost to New York for play five."

The ceremonial was hosted by Nobody Wants This prima Kristen Bell, who opened the ceremonial by welcoming Los Angeles firefighters successful the audience.

The Los Angeles Fire Department workers were invited to the lawsuit successful designation of their work during the city's caller wildfires which near 29 radical dormant and thousands of homes destroyed.

Jane Fonda was this year's recipient of the beingness accomplishment prize, the acting union's highest honour.

"I emotion acting, we get to unfastened people's minds to caller ideas, instrumentality them beyond what they recognize of the world, and assistance them laughter erstwhile things are rough," she said.

"And for a pistillate similar me, who grew up successful the 40s and 50s erstwhile women weren't expected to person opinions and get angry, acting gave maine a accidental to play aggravated women with opinions, which arsenic you cognize is simply a agelong for me," she joked.

"I'm a large believer successful unions, they person our backs, they bring america into community, and they springiness america power. This is truly important close present erstwhile workers' powerfulness is being attacked and assemblage is being weakened."

In an impassioned code which indirectly referenced governmental turmoil, Fonda concluded: "We mustn't kid ourselves astir what is happening.

"We indispensable not isolate, we indispensable enactment successful community, assistance the vulnerable, we indispensable find a mode to task an inspiring imaginativeness of the future."