Will Smith, Squid Game and CODA were among the winners at the 2022 SAG Awards in Santa Monica last night.
Indie drama CODA was the biggest winner of last night’s Screen Actors Guild awards as it picked up best ensemble in a movie and best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur, who became the first-ever deaf actor to win an individual SAG award.
CODA is an Apple drama about a deaf family living in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and has also been nominated for three Academy Awards at the end of March.
“This validates the fact that we deaf actors can work like anyone else,” CODA star Marlee Matlin said. “We look forward to more opportunities for deaf actors.”
Kotsur managed to see off stiff competition from Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper and Jared Leto to win the best supporting male actor category.
Using a sign language interpreter, he said: “Now I feel I’m finally part of the family, I know you all are artists, and I know you all know what it’s like to be a starving actor. Back then I used to sleep in my car, I slept in my dressing room backstage, I couch-surfed and all of that. You feel me, right? So thank you so much.”
In a night that saw Hollywood’s elite go all out on the red carpet, Squid Game’s Jung Ho-Yeon accepted her award for best female actor in a drama series donning a lavish black Louis Vuitton dress.
Her co-star Lee Jung-Jae won best male actor in a drama series as the South Korean Netflix phenomenon became the first foreign language series to win a Screen Actors Guild award in the TV categories. IT missed out on the best ensemble in a drama series though, which went to Succession.
Michael Keaton then won best male actor in a TV movie or limited series award for his role in Dopesick. The 70-year-old was nowhere to be seen when Salma Hayek announced his name, but he finally appeared and apologised to the audience for his “quick trip to the bathroom”.
Will Smith took home his first Screen Actors Guild award – best male actor in a leading role for his depiction of Richard Williams in the tennis drama King Richard.
Meanwhile, Jessica Chastain took home best lead female actor in a movie for televangelist biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, while Ariana DeBose won the award for best supporting actress for West Side Story, telling the audience that it’s “taken a long time to call myself an actor,” referring to her dancing and Broadway roots.
A full list of the evening’s winners can be found below:
Movies
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role
Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”
Andrew Garfield, “Tick, Tick . . . Boom!”
*Will Smith, “King Richard”
Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role
*Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”
Lady Gaga, “House of Gucci”
Jennifer Hudson, “Respect”
Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role
Caitriona Balfe, “Belfast”
Cate Blanchett, “Nightmare Alley”
*Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”
Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog”
Ruth Negga, “Passing”
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role
Ben Affleck, “The Tender Bar”
Bradley Cooper, “Licorice Pizza”
*Troy Kotsur, “CODA”
Jared Leto, “House of Gucci”
Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”
Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture
“Belfast”
*“CODA”
“Don’t Look Up”
“House of Gucci”
“King Richard”
Television
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a miniseries or television movie
Murray Bartlett “The White Lotus”
Oscar Isaac, “Scenes From a Marriage”
*Michael Keaton, “Dopesick”
Ewan McGregor, “Halston”
Evan Peters, “Mare of Easttown”
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
“The Morning Show”
“Squid Game”
*“Succession”
“Yellowstone”
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series
Jennifer Aniston, “The Morning Show”
*Jung Ho-yeon, “Squid Game”
Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Sarah Snook, “Succession”
Reese Witherspoon, “The Morning Show”
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series
Brian Cox, “Succession”
Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
Kieran Culkin, “Succession”
Jeremy Strong, “Succession”
*Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game”
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series
“The Great”
“Hacks”
“The Kominsky Method”
“Only Murders in the Building”
*“Ted Lasso”
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series
Elle Fanning, “The Great”
Sandra Oh, “The Chair”
*Jean Smart, “Hacks”
Juno Temple, “Ted Lasso”
Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso”
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series
Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method”
Brett Goldstein, “Ted Lasso”
Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”
Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
*Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a miniseries or television movie
Jennifer Coolidge, “The White Lotus”
Cynthia Erivo, “Genius: Aretha”
Margaret Qualley, “Maid”
Jean Smart, “Mare of Easttown”
*Kate Winslet, “Mare of Easttown”