After months of preparation, and hours of getting ready, the A list celebrities were glamorous. On February 23, 2025, these prestigious household names rolled into the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG).They were televised for the 31st time on Netflix in Los Angeles, California. The SAG awards affect the Oscar race and show who the big winners will most likely be. There are 13 total awards for television and films, unlike the Oscars which have more awards for costume design and best song. The awards were founded in 1995, honoring outstanding performances in movies and television. The awards were hosted by actress Kristen Bell. During the night, Bell reunited with her previous co-star Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl to seemingly pass the torch to a future Gossip girl by doing what they do best, gossiping! When opening the show, Bell also sang a Frozen-inspired song called “Do you want to be an actor?” as a parody to her famous song “Do you want to build a snowman?” in the 2013 original film.
Television Awards
The TV show Shogun took home their SAG award for Ensemble in a drama series. The Tv show is about a courageous English sailor named Jack Blackhorne, who lands in a shipwreck, and a powerful daimyo (great lord) who has many political rivals, named Lord Toranaga. The show is set in Japan in the year 1600. Lord Toranga is fighting for his own safety when a ship from Europe appears in the harbour of a fishing village. The comedy series Only Murders in the Building was awarded one of their very first awards for Ensemble in a comedy series. The show follows three very different neighbors living in an apartment building who share a commonality of listening to a podcast about murders and then discover a murder has occurred in their own apartment building.
Hiroyuki Sanada won the award for Actor in a drama series for his work in Shogun as Lord Toranaga. Sanada’s co-star in Shogun, Anna Sawai won the award for Actress in a drama series. Sawai had a very emotional acceptance speech explaining that this last season may have been one of the final times she would get to work with the cast due to her character being killed off. Martin Short took home another SAG award in the category Actor in a comedy series for his work as Oliver Putnam. In turn, the award of Actress in a comedy series went to Jean Smart for her role as Deborah Vance, a Las Vegas comedy diva, in the tv show Hacks. Colin Farrel, who played Oz Cobb or “The Penguin”, a crime fighting persona like Batman, took home the award of Actor in a Limited Series in the series The Penguin. Conversely, Jessica Gunning won the Actress in a Limited Series award for her work as Martha Scott, a very obsessed stalker in the TV show Baby Reindeer. These are the winners for the categories targeting TV shows. With countless efforts, and long hours by entertainment performers, the best came out on top and won their awards.
Film
The film Conclave is a movie where a man named Cardinal Lawrence leads a few other cardinals to elect a new pope, but in the process uncovers a few deep secrets that could ruin the Roman Catholic church. The film won the award for outstanding cast. Timothee Chalamet won the award for Actor in a lead role for his work in A Complete Unknown, where he stars as the music legend Bob Dylan. Demi Moore, who has had a lot of wins this award season for her role of Elisabeth Sparkle, in the Substance, a movie about an older actress who discovers a cure for obscurity, won the award for Actress in a lead role. Next, Kieran Culkin who also has been picking up a lot of wins for his work in A Real Pain won the award for Outstanding performance by an actor in a supporting role. Kieran Culkin plays Benji Kaplan, a young man, who tours Poland to honor his grandmother with cousin David. Finally, Zoe Saldana won the award for Actress in a supporting role for her work with Rita Mora Castro in “Emilia Perez.”
These were the winners of the 2025 SAG award winners. After a night filled with drama, competition, and impeccable fashion we saw the recent trends of the winning movies and TV shows keep up their streaks. The big winners of the night were Conclave on the movie side and Shogun on the television side, both of which have been taking home a lot of awards during this season.
