SAG Awards: Everything Everywhere All At Once dominates

Everything Everywhere All At Once has cemented its presumption arsenic the Oscars frontrunner aft respective large wins astatine the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

The multiverse escapade won champion movie formed astatine the ceremony, portion respective of its stars were individually recognised.

Michelle Yeoh was named champion actress, beating frontrunner Cate Blanchett.

"This is not conscionable for me, it's for each small miss who looks similar me," Yeoh said successful her affectional acceptance speech.

Her co-star Ke Huy Quan became the archetypal Asian victor of champion supporting actor, portion determination was a daze triumph for his co-star Jamie Lee Curtis successful the supporting histrion category.

Everything Everywhere All At Once follows a laundrette proprietor - played by Yeoh - who indispensable pat into antithetic versions of herself from the multiverse successful bid to prevention the world.

The sci-fi adventure's triumph gives it important momentum up of the Oscars connected 12 March, and bespeak it is the steadfast frontrunner to triumph champion picture.

There was lone 1 victor successful the movie acting categories who was not from Everything Everywhere All At Once - Brendan Fraser was named champion histrion for his show successful The Whale.

In her speech, Yeoh told the assemblage - which was mostly made up of chap actors - that "we're present due to the fact that we emotion what we do, we volition ne'er halt doing what we do".

"Thank you for giving maine a spot astatine the table, due to the fact that truthful galore of america request this, we privation to beryllium seen, we privation to beryllium heard, and contiguous you person shown america that it is possible," she added.

The prize for champion movie formed is seen arsenic the apical honour astatine the SAG Awards successful the lack of a champion representation category. Winners astatine the ceremonial are voted for by chap actors.

Veteran histrion James Hong, 94, who plays Yeoh's begetter successful the film, gave a comical acceptance code arsenic Everything Everywhere won the apical prize, successful which helium vowed to instrumentality to the ceremonial erstwhile helium was 100 years old.

"I got my archetypal SAG paper 70 years ago. Back successful those days... producers said the Asians were not bully capable and they are not container bureau - but look astatine america now," helium said to cheers from the audience.

In her ain acceptance speech, Curtis said: "I emotion acting, I emotion the occupation we get to do, I emotion being a portion of a crew, portion of a cast, I emotion what we bash with each other, it's specified a beauteous job... what a dream."

Curtis, who is the girl of 2 actors, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, besides made airy of the caller "nepo baby" online debate astir stars who arguably had an vantage successful their careers due to the fact that they person celebrated parents.

"I cognize you look astatine maine and deliberation 'well, nepo baby, that's wherefore she's there', and I get it," Curtis said. "But the information of the substance is, I'm 64 years aged and this is conscionable amazing."

Her victory, unneurotic with that of Kerry Condon astatine past week's Baftas, casts important uncertainty implicit the supporting histrion class up of the Oscars. Wakanda Forever's Angela Bassett had antecedently been considered the astir apt winner.

"When I heard that, I rapidly realised that this infinitesimal nary longer belongs to conscionable me. It besides belongs to everyone who has asked for change," Quan said arsenic helium collected his trophy. "This is simply a truly affectional infinitesimal for me."

Quan roseate to fame arsenic a kid prima successful films specified arsenic Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but helium took a interruption from acting aboriginal successful his vocation until returning with Everything Everywhere All At Once.

"When I stepped distant from acting, it's due to the fact that determination were truthful fewer opportunities," helium said. "And yet present we are tonight, the scenery looks truthful antithetic present than before. Thank you to everyone who contributed to these changes."

Elsewhere, Fraser was named champion histrion for his show successful The Whale, beating Austin Butler, the young histrion who has triumphed astatine respective different precursor ceremonies for his show arsenic Elvis Presley successful Baz Luhrmann's biopic.

"I volition treasure this but ne'er much than what I utilized to support successful my wallet, which was my SAG card, that I earned successful 1991," helium recalled, becoming visibly emotional. "It made maine consciousness similar I belonged. If you told that feline backmost then, that I'd beryllium lasting present close now, I would not person believed you."

He described the relation of Charlie, the morbidly obese prof helium portrays successful The Whale, arsenic "the relation of my life".

Fraser's triumph continues a hugely palmy comeback for the actor, who was a container bureau prima astatine the crook of the millennium with films specified arsenic The Mummy and George of the Jungle.

But the 54-year-old past spent respective years retired of the spotlight, taking connected smaller roles arsenic helium struggled to recapture his earlier success, until helium was formed arsenic the pb successful Darren Aronofsky's film.

"I conscionable privation you to know, each the actors retired determination who person gone done that oregon are going done that, I cognize however you feel, but judge me, if you conscionable enactment successful determination and enactment 1 ft successful beforehand of the other, you'll get to wherever you request to go," Fraser said.

In the TV categories, acting winners included Jessica Chastain (for George & Tammy), Jason Bateman (Ozark), Sam Elliott (1883) and Jean Smart (Hacks).

The apical 2 TV prizes - champion play bid and champion drama bid - were won by wealthiness satire The White Lotus and school-based sitcom Abbott Elementary respectively.

The White Lotus prima Jennifer Coolidge, who won champion histrion successful a play series, utilized her acceptance code to recount the communicative of erstwhile her usually rule-abiding begetter fto her skip schoolhouse to be the Charlie Chaplin movie festival.

"He got maine retired of my archetypal people people to bash it," she said, "and seeing Charlie Chaplin for the archetypal clip and having that experience, my emotion of film, my emotion of actors, each of that came from my archetypal grade."

Andrew Garfield presented the beingness accomplishment grant to Sally Field, who told the crowd: "In each of these astir 60 years determination is not a time that I don't consciousness softly thrilled to telephone myself an actor."

Famous faces including Robbie Coltrane, Ray Liotta, James Caan, Dame Olivia Newton John, Irene Cara, Annie Wersching and Dame Angela Lansbury besides featured successful the show's In Memoriam segment.

The SAG Awards and the Bafta Film Awards are some seen arsenic Oscar indicators - but this year, nary of the large winners overlapped. Last week's Baftas were alternatively dominated by The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet On The Western Front.