Angelina Jolie snubbed at SAG Awards, nominations announced

The big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked topped the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) on Wednesday, awards considered a good indicator for the Oscars.

Wicked earned five nominations, including Best Acting Ensemble, the ceremony’s top prize. Cynthia Erivo will compete for the title of best leading actress with Demi Moore, for her role in the film The Substance, by French director Coralie Fargeat, or even Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl with the absence of Angelina Jolie, who was the favorite in September last during the presentation of Maria, the biopic on Callas at the Venice Film Festival.

A Perfect Stranger, about the years of Bob Dylan’s youth, was nominated four times, while the film by French director Jacques Audiard Emilia Pérez, acclaimed at the Golden Globes, received three nominations.

These three films will compete with the Palme d’Or at Cannes Anora, directed by Sean Baker, and the papal thriller Conclave, for the prize for best ensemble of actors, organizers announced Wednesday. Despite its three awards at the Golden Globes, the film The Brutalist, a long portrait of an architect survivor of the Holocaust, who tries to rebuild his life in the United States, only received one nomination, that of Adrien Brody in the category of best leading actor.

The latter will notably face Ralph Fiennes for his role in Conclave or Timothée Chalamet in A Perfect Stranger.

On the television side, the series Shogun, already rewarded at the Emmy Awards and the Golden Globes, is in the lead with five nominations. These nominations were initially scheduled to be announced at a ceremony on Wednesday, but it was canceled due to the violent fires affecting Los Angeles. The SAG Awards are voted on by actors and are therefore considered a very good indicator for the Oscars. Actors constitute the most important college within the Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, which awards the prestigious golden statuettes. The ceremony will be held on February 23 in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on Netflix for the second year in a row.