With SAG Awards Next, Does ‘Nomadland’ Have the Oscars Wrapped Up Without Cast Ensemble?

Clayton Davis The cost of awards campaigning has reached an all-time high, even in a pandemic year.We’re not just talking in terms of dollars and cents. The long slog was extended by months after the Oscars’ airdate was pushed from early February to late April, making the quest to land those big statuettes a brutal endurance contest.

Clayton Davis The longest awards season in modern history is finally coming to a close with the opening of Oscar voting for the Academy’s roughly 10,000 members.The feeling among industry professionals and awards strategists is that many in the Academy at large decided to bow out of the first round of nomination voting.

Clayton Davis The Oscars could have some interesting surprises pop up at the ceremony on April 25, even in the best picture race. Given the unprecedented nature of the season and the assumption that many AMPAS voters sat out the nomination phase of voting, a couple of upsets may await.

Clayton Davis The Oscars have announced an “ensemble cast” to present at the 93rd ceremony along with the first television promo.The first round of presenters includes a list of 15 former Academy Award winners and nominees, save for one: Angela Bassett (nominee for 1993’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It”), Halle Berry (actress winner for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball”), Bong Joon Ho (director winner for 2019’s “Parasite”), Don Cheadle (actor nominee for 2004’s “Hotel Rwanda”), Bryan Cranston (actor

Clayton Davis The beauty of “Nomadland” rests in the hands of its direction by Chloe Zhao and its gorgeous camera work by Joshua James Richards.Some of the best work in 2021 has been delivered by young, consummate professionals, who are speaking volumes to the future of cinema and where it’s heading. From vibrant colors to emotional lighting, there seems to be a chemical reaction to how a filmmaker and director of photography challenge and explore each other’s artistry.

Clayton Davis The 2021 BAFTA nominations turned more than a few heads when they were announced in early March. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has approximately 9,000 voting members, nearly identical to AMPAS at 10,000.With “Nomadland” leading the field with seven noms and having the prestige of wins from the Golden Globes and PGA, the season has looked like an inevitable coronation of Chloé Zhao’s American West drama.

As another award season inches closer to the end, the Screen Actors Guild honoured the best in acting in TV and film. With only the Oscars and BAFTA left to wrap up the Hollywood awards season this, the excitement is amping up.

Since the pandemic, awards shows have been contained in Zoom chats and other virtual spaces. That said, the red carpet has also become virtual and allows Hollywood talent to come up with inventive ways to show off their red carpet fashions. For the SAG Awards, the virtual red carpet portraits contained many elevated looks, giving some sartorial eye candy on social media.

This year's SAG Awards might be quite a bit different than in years past, but the celeb fashions are as chic and stylish as ever.For the first time in the show's history, this year's ceremony was a pre-taped affair — completely virtual, with no host, and edited down to an hour-long broadcast.That doesn't mean, however, that the A-list nominees didn't get all glammed up for their brief acceptance speeches, delivered over Zoom!Despite the absence of a red carpet this year, there were plenty of red

Jason Sudeikis is keeping his look fresh as he racks up the awards.

Screen Actors Guild Awards, SAG-AFTRA minted a new class of winners during a reimagined awards ceremony.Honoring the best in film and television — as well as stunt people in both — this year's most-nominated TV series were and, while Chadwick Boseman made SAG history, becoming the first actor to earn four nominations in a single year.

If Netflix was going to have a golden night this award season it was going to be at the SAG Awards and, surprise, the actors came through. The streaming service took major honors including the Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture for “Trial of the Chicago 7” and “The Crown” won for Drama Series ensemble for the second year in a row.

Clayton Davis The SAG Awards have weighed in with their winners and have set in motion on what could be the most diverse slate of major Oscar winners in the 93-year history of the Academy Awards.The celebration of the 27th annual ceremony, which is voted on by the approximate 160,000-person membership of actors, was revealed during the one-hour pre-taped show via Zoom on Sunday night.Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize of the evening for cast ensemble, marking its

later this month — will feature appearances by a long list of 2021 nominees, including Riz Ahmed, Sterling K. Brown, Viola Davis, Daveed Diggs, Ethan Hawke, Dan Levy and Jason Sudeikis.

The Covid parade of awards shows continues this Easter Sunday (no rest for the kudos weary) with the not-so-live broadcast of the 27th annual SAG Awards, honoring the actors union choices for the best of the year in both movies and TV. When we say “not-so-live” we mean it.

Not only is the SAG Awards best ensemble award worth watching in its own right, but the list of nominated films in that category can help predict who will take home the individual acting awards. Actors in films that are nominated for best cast are nearly twice as likely to win their individual acting nominations.

Golden Globe and Grammy winners. Next up: Those big Hollywood SAGs.The 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards are set to air on Sunday, April 4, at 6 p.m.

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