Notes On The Season: A ‘CODA’ Upset At SAG?; Plus Past Oscar Producers Offer Support To Academy After Latest Controversy Heats Up
deadline.comA column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.This Sunday’s SAG awards mark the beginning of the final phase of this looooooong awards season as the Screen Actors Guild becomes the first of the all important peer group guild honors to make known their actual choices, and if the past is prologue here we should take heed of what they will be saying, even if the results aren’t always totally indicative of where Oscar might eventually land, especially since the merger with AFTRA that gives local weatherpersons the same power of the vote as say, Meryl Streep.
However SAG is usually good as a precursor in at least three of the individual acting categories, and sometimes even with their Outstanding Cast of a Motion Picture, which if nothing else can bring much needed momentum to the winner since the media loves to equate it with SAG’s version of Best Picture.
Recent history has been spotty, in the film categories at least where last year only supporting winners Daniel Kaluuya and Yuh Jung Youn repeated at the Oscars, giving SAG just a 2/5 score.
But last year was an abberation all around, wasn’t it? However the guild went 5 for 5 the year before and arguably sent historic Cast winner Parasite on its way to the Best Picture Oscar.
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