SAG Awards 2022: ‘Squid Game’ Wins Big , ‘CODA’ Shakes up the Oscar Race
The 28th edition of the SAG Awards took place Sunday night, and it had a lot of interesting details to dissect.
First of all, here is the complete list of winners:
Theatrical Motion Pictures
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Belfast
CODA — WINNER
Don’t Look Up
House of Gucci
King Richard
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) — WINNER
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) — WINNER
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Lada Gaga (House of Gucci)
Jennifer Hudson (Respect)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)
Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)
Troy Kotsur (CODA) — WINNER
Jared Leto (House of Gucci)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)
Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) — WINNER
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Black Widow
Dune
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die — WINNER
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Television
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
The Handmaid’s Tale
Morning Show
Squid Game
Succession — WINNER
Yellowstone
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
The Great
Hacks
The Kominsky Method
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso — WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Brian Cox (Succession)
Billy Crudup (Morning Show)
Kieren Culkin (Succession)
Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) — WINNER
Jeremy Strong (Succession)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston (Morning Show)
Jung Ho-Yeon (Squid Game) — WINNER
Elisabeth Moss (Handmaid’s Tale)
Sarah Snook (Succession)
Reese Witherspoon (Morning Show)
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) — WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Elle Fanning (The Great)
Sandra Oh (The Chair)
Jean Smart (Hacks) — WINNER
Juno Temple (Ted Lasso)
Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Murry Bartlett (The White Lotus)
Oscar Isaac (Scenes From a Marriage)
Michael Keaton (Dopesick) — WINNER
Ewan McGregor (Halston)
Evan Peters (Mare of Easttown)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
Cynthia Erivo (Genius: Aretha)
Margaret Qualley (Maid)
Jean Smart (Mare of Easttown)
Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown) — WINNER
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
Cobra Kai
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Loki
Mare of Easttown
Squid Game — WINNER
CODA winning definitely represents a big push for the movie as the Oscars approach. With DGA and PGA Awards winners still to be announced (March 12th), the Best Picture race now seems to be all about CODA vs. The Power of the Dog, the latter of which still has the advantage of scoring 12 nominations. Of course, this past decade is filled with counterexamples that would rule out this as a reason why The Power of the Dog could take the big prize at the end of March — going no further, in 2020, Joker had the most amount of nominations (11) and wasn’t even a contender for Best Picture. The one everyone thought would take the statue, 1917, with a total of 10 nominations, had to watch Parasite, with only four, bag it home.
La La Land, in 2017, scored a record of 14 nominations, and famously had to hand its Best Picture statue to Moonlight‘s producers. Since 2010, there have been a total of five movies that won the Best Ensemble category at the SAG Awards and then went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars. This is not the most relevant Guild Awards to predict Best Picture, but it does give us some hints. If The Power of the Dog had been nominated and lost to CODA, this would be a different conversation. However, Belfast is another big horse in the race for Best Picture, and today, it has lost some ground to CODA.
Another big upset on Sunday was Jessica Chastain winning Best Actress, which is currently one of the most unpredictable categories, especially after the Guild did not nominate the actress that was thought to be the frontrunner at the time: Kristen Stewart. She has now lost a lot of steam, and we could be looking at Nicole Kidman as this year’s winner of the Oscar. However, we must not rule out Chastain, who many people thought would not even be nominated.
And as far as Best Supporting Actress goes, this is Ariana DeBose’s award to lose at this point. She has no real competition, and she will most likely be the second actress in history to win an Oscar for playing Anita in West Side Story — both her and Rita Moreno will join the duos of Robert DeNiro/Marlon Brando and Joaquin Phoenix/Heath Ledger of actors winning an Oscar for playing the same role in two different movies.
Moving to the male side of things, Will Smith is another lock for the Oscars, with little to no competition to get the Best Actor award. The supporting actor category is more interesting now with Kotsur’s win, as it was previously leaning towards Kodi Smit-McPhee. This could already give us a hint during Oscar night of what to expect from Best Picture, as it will be another CODA vs. The Power of the Dog battle.
Finally, on the TV side, Succession a.k.a. the best show on television right now, took home the big prize of Best Ensemble, but that didn’t stop Squid Game from receiving lots of love from the actor’s guild, winning the two Best Actor/Actress awards plus the Best Stunt Ensemble trophy.
Leaving entertainment for a minute, the big presence of the night was the war in Ukraine, with actors like Michael Keaton, Jessica Chastain, or Brian Cox asking for everyone to join in solidarity towards the Eastern European country.
The Oscars will take place on March 27th. Stay tuned for more coverage on that front.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
