NEW YORK 鈥� Canadian sitcom "Schitt鈥檚 Creek" continues to storm the awards circuit.
The Ontario-shot riches-to-rags tale was nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series by the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Thursday.
Stars Annie Murphy, Catherine O鈥橦ara, Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy were also all nominated individually.
The SAG Awards love came just a day after the series got five Golden Globe nominations, and a few months after "Schitt's Creek" swept the major comedy categories at the Emmys, winning seven trophies.
The other SAG nominees for best comedy series ensemble were 鈥淒ead to Me,鈥� 鈥淭he Flight Attendant,鈥� 鈥淭he Great鈥� and 鈥淭ed Lasso.鈥�
All of the female leads in a drama series nominees came from either 鈥淭he Crown鈥� (Gillian Anderson, Colman, Emma Corrin) or 鈥淥zark鈥� (Laura Linney, Julia Garner). Both series were nominated for best TV drama ensemble, along with 鈥淏etter Call Saul,鈥� 鈥淏ridgerton鈥� and 鈥淟ovecraft Country.鈥�
Chadwick Boseman received two posthumous nominations from SAG Awards, while the Korean American family drama 鈥淢inari鈥� and Spike Lee's Vietnam veteran drama 鈥淒a 5 Bloods鈥� were among the nominees for best ensemble.
The nominees, announced on Instagram Live, differed notably from the Golden Globe nominations announced the day before. While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spurned films with largely non-white casts in its tops awards, the actors guild nominated a strikingly more diverse slate of nominees for its top award, best ensemble.
Up for best ensemble are Regina King's 鈥淥ne Night in Miami," about a 1964 meeting of four Black icons; the August Wilson adaptation 鈥淢a Rainey's Black Bottom"; Lee Isaac Chung's 鈥淢inari鈥�; Lee's 鈥淒a 5 Bloods鈥� and Aaron Sorkin's 1960s courtroom drama 鈥淭he Trial of the Chicago 7."
All of those films, except Sorkin's, were overlooked Wednesday by the Globes in its top award, best dramatic film. 鈥淢inari," set in Arkansas but with largely Korean dialogue, was even ruled ineligible for the category by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
But the SAG Awards, presented by SAG-AFTRA, are considered a far better barometer for the Academy Awards, where actors account for the largest percentage of the academy. Usually, the eventual Oscar best picture winner is first nominated for best ensemble by the SAG Awards, though 鈥淕reen Book鈥� and 鈥淭he Shape of Water" were two recent exceptions. Last year, Bong Joon Ho's 鈥淧arasite鈥� won the SAG's top
The Screen Actors Guild's field of ensemble nominees left out a pair of frontrunners in David Fincher鈥檚 golden-age Hollywood drama 鈥淢ank鈥� (which led the Globes with six nominations) and Chloe Zhao鈥檚 Western road movie 鈥淣omadland.鈥� The stars of each 鈥� Gary Oldman in 鈥淢ank,鈥� Frances McDormand in 鈥淣omadland鈥� 鈥� were both nominated by the actors guild.
Boseman, who died last August at age 43, was nominated not just for his lead performance in 鈥淢a Rainey's Black Bottom,鈥� but also his supporting role in 鈥淒a 5 Bloods.鈥� With two individual nominations and two ensemble nods, Boseman's four SAG nominations in a single year tie a record 鈥� and set a new one for solely film categories.
In 2019, he memorably a ccepted the SAG ensemble award for 鈥淏lack Panther." 鈥淲e all know what it鈥檚 like to be told that there is not a place for you to be featured 鈥� yet you are young, gifted and Black,鈥� Boseman said then.
Aside from Boseman and Oldman, the nominees for best male actor in a lead role were Riz Ahmed (鈥淪ound of Metal鈥�), Anthony Hopkins (鈥淭he Father鈥�) and Steven Yeun (鈥淢inari鈥�).
Viola Davis, Boseman鈥檚 鈥淢a Rainey鈥� co-star, was nominated for best female actor in a leading role alongside McDormand, Carey Mulligan (鈥淧romising Young Woman鈥�), Amy Adams (鈥淗illbilly Elegy鈥�) and Vanessa Kirby (鈥淧ieces of a Woman鈥�).
Nominated for best female actor in a supporting role were Maria Bakalova ("Borat Subsequent Moviefilm"), Glenn Close ("Hillbilly Elegy"), Olivia Colman ("The Father"), Yuh-Jung Young ("Minari") and Helena Zengel ("News of the World").
The other supporting nominees for male actors were Daniel Kaluuya ("Judas and the Black Messiah"), Sacha Baron Cohen ("The Trial of the Chicago 7"), Jared Leto ("The Little Things") and Leslie Odom Jr. ("One Night in Miami").
In an already recurring theme for a movie year in which many
The actors guild also helped atone for one of the Globes鈥� other glaring oversights, nominating Michaela Coel for her performance in the limited series 鈥淚 May Destroy You.鈥�
The SAG Awards will be held almost three months later this year, on April 4. After postponing due to the pandemic to March 14, the SAGs again moved when the Grammy Awards also took that date. The Oscars won't be held until April 28. Academy Award nominees, to be announced March 15, are still more than five weeks away.
In a first, the nominations Thursday were streamed on Instagram, with Daveed Diggs and Lily Collins serving as hosts. At first, Diggs had trouble joining his screen with Collins.
鈥淭here are so many more comments than I thought there would be,鈥� he said.
It also meant Diggs was live when Collins announced his nomination for best male actor in a television movie or limited series, for the film version of 鈥淗amilton.鈥� He responded that the awards were 鈥渃learly rigged.鈥�
鈥淭his 鈥楬amilton鈥� gift, it keeps giving,鈥� said Diggs.
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Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
