SAG Awards: Troy Kotsur, Ariana DeBose Nab Supporting Actor Honors

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Screen Actors Guild Awards kicked off Sunday against a backdrop of geopolitical conflict and a pandemic that has upended the way that movies and television shows are produced and distributed. “Ted Lasso” star and creator Jason Sudekis won his second consecutive SAG Award for best actor in a TV comedy for his work as an optimistic soccer coach in the hit Apple TV show, and Jean Smart earned her first SAG for best actress in a TV comedy after four previous nominations for her role as a caustic standup in “Hacks.” “Actors, nobody gets us,” Smart exclaimed. “Seriously what we do is valuable.

I mean, we are the tribes’ storytellers, since man crawled out of the cave. It’s important. We actually are the world’s oldest profession.” Troy Kotsur earned one of the night’s first awards, picking up best supporting actor for his work as a deaf father in “CODA,” while Ariana DeBose nabbed best supporting actress for her role as the passionate Anita in Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story.”Kotsur used his time at the podium to thank the film’s producers for “…believing in us deaf actors and casting us authentically as actors who happen to be deaf.” DeBose said she felt her prize should be shared by the company of “West Side Story.” “I really do believe that when you recognize one of us, you recognize all of us in a way,” she said.

The awards show returned live and (mostly) in-person after SAG dramatically overhauled the previous show as a concession to COVID.

A few performers, such as Sudekis, accepted their awards via Zoom. Last year, a shortened one-hour version of the gathering was broadcast — winners were informed of their victories a few days before the telecast and their acceptance speeches were taped in advance.