SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS: ANOTHER OSCAR RE-SHUFFLE?
The Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out late Saturday night for both film and television work. Tom McCarthy's Spotlight won the Best Ensemble Award besting The Big Short and possibly indicating a continuing tight battle for the Best Picture Oscar. The Big Short was perceived by many Oscar experts as having pulled into a slight lead owing to its Producers Guild Award from last weekend. A SAG win last for ensemble would have likely strengthened that view but the win for Spotlight has caused some re-evaluation yet again.
Add to all of this that the Directors Guild announces their award this coming weekend and it could very easily award neither McCarthy or The Big Short's Adam McKay. Plausible cases can be made that any of the other DGA nominees might pick up the trophy: Inarritu/The Reverent, Miller/Mad Max: Fury Road or Scott/The Martian. So, the DGA could provide a sign of clarity if either McKay or McCarthy should win, or confusion should any of those other three take the award. Perhaps a Miller or Inarittu win get their films back near the top on the Best Picture speculation. It'll be fun reading those tea leaves next Monday.
Meanwhile, in addition to Spotlight, other TFF #42 alumni picked up SAG Awards Saturday night as Brie Larson won Best Actress for Room and Idris Elba won Best Supporting Actor for Beasts of No Nation.
Non-TFF #42 winners were Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor for The Revenant and Alicia Vikander for Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl. Mad Max:Fury Road picked up the award for Stunt Ensemble as it should have.
Honestly, for what's its worth, I still semi-believe Spotlight is going to win Best Picture on Oscar night.
I have linked complete coverage and analysis of The SAG results here from The Hollywood Reporter, The Film Stage, The Playlist and Deadline:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/sag-awards-spotlight-victory-confirms-860909
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2016-sag-winners-complete-list-856945/item/outstanding-performance-by-a-female-846007
http://thefilmstage.com/news/spotlight-leonardo-dicaprio-and-brie-larson-lead-2016-sag-award-winners/
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/sag-award-winners-spotlight-wins-best-ensemble-leonardo-dicaprio-idris-elba-brie-larson-are-also-winners-20160130
http://deadline.com/2016/01/sag-awards-analysis-a-big-night-for-netflix-diversity-repeat-winners-and-oscar-front-runners-hammond-1201693646/
ROONEY MARA TALKS CAROL
Best Supporting Actress nominee Rooney Mara talks about Carol in this half hour YouTube video proffered by The Weinstein Company last week. Enjoy!
Rooney Mara on Carol via YouTube
FEINBERG'S LATEST FORECAST
The Hollywood Reporter's Oscar expert, Scott Feinberg posted his latest Oscar prognostications late last week and they came prior to Saturday night's SAG results.
Feinberg's analysis suggests that TFF #42 films are positioned thusly:
Best Pic: Spotlight trailing The Big Short and Room is in his #5 spot.
Director: McCarthy/Spotlight is #4 and Abrahamson/Room is #5
Actor: Fassbender/Steve Jobs is #5
Actress: Larson/Room at #1 and Rampling/45 Years at #3 and Blanchett/Carol at #4
Supporting Actor: Ruffalo/Spotlight at #2
Supporting Actress: Mara/Carol #3, McAdams/Spotlight at #4 and Winslet/Steve Jobs at #5
Adapted Screenplay: Room at #3, Carol at #5
Original Screenplay: Spotlight at #1
Animated Feature: Anomalisa is at #2Documentary Feature: The Look of Silence is #4 and Winter on Fire is at #5
Foreign Language Film: Son of Saul at #1
Cinematography: Carol at #4
Costumes: Carol at #1
Film Editing: Spotlight at #5
Original Score: Carol at #4
If Scott is right TFF #42 films pick up four Oscars on Feb. 28.
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