The 2022 SAG Nominations Are Out

The 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards announced their nominees this morning courtesy with help from Rosario Dawson and eugenics-fan, Vanessa Hudgens, who were both introduced by the new SAG-AFTRA president, Fran Drescher. The 28th Annual SAG Awards will air on TNT and TBS on February 27 and being nominated here is a big deal because last year the nominees of the SAG awards comprised 16 of the 20 acting nominees at the Oscars. And this is the trend, as they usually predict about half of the big Oscar categories. So I’m sorry to say, Lady Gaga‘s method-acting seems to be working, as she got herself a SAG nomination. And Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana was shut out. Although, if you ask her, she probably doesn’t give a shit! Or so she says.

The nominees for the SAGs are picked by a randomly selected nominations panel of 2,500 members of the merged Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists unions. Then the winners get picked by a vote of all 121,000 members of SAG-AFTRA. I’m assuming none of them get flights to Paris, by the nominees, though. At least if they’re authentic!

Apple TV+, Netflix, and HBO all got a lot of nominations. Apple TV+ got in with CODA, The Morning Show, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Tedd Lasso. Netflix got in with Squid Game, Don’t Look Up, Passing, The Lost Daughter, Maid, The Power of the Dog (although, Power of the Dog was shut out of the ensemble category), and more. HBO got in with The White Lotus, Mare of Easttown, Succession, and more. Hulu’s Only Murders In The Building also got a few nominations.

Of course, a noticeable snub is Kristen Stewart who was ignored for her role as Princess Diana in Spencer. Looks like Princess Diana’s spirit was not enough to get her a nomination this time. Lady Gaga is probably cackling with delight to have a top competitor out of the races. Too bad she already lost to Nicole Kidman at the Golden Globes, but maybe Gaga can convince the SAG voting members with more publicized stories about how she had to dye her hair brown to deliver a great performance.

And Licorice Pizza got a nomination for Best Supporting Actor thanks to Bradley Cooper. At least Madonna can be happy with the news, she’s probably mopping the SAG office floor already to show her thanks.

Here’s a full list of the nominees:

FILM

BEST ENSEMBLE
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
House of Gucci
King Richard

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick…BOOM!)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
Jennifer Hudson (Respect)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)
Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Jared Leto (House of Gucci)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)
Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE
Black Widow
Dune
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

TELEVISION

BEST DRAMA SERIES ENSEMBLE
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Morning Show
Squid Game
Succession
Yellowstone

BEST DRAMA SERIES ACTOR
Brian Cox (Succession)
Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)
Kieran Culkin (Succession)
Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game)
Jeremy Strong (Succession)

BEST DRAMA SERIES ACTRESS
Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show)
Jung Ho-Yeon (Squid Game)
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Sarah Snook (Succession)
Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show)

BEST COMEDY SERIES ENSEMBLE
The Great
Hacks
The Kominsky Method
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso

BEST COMEDY SERIES ACTOR
Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method)
Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso)
Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso)

BEST COMEDY SERIES ACTRESS
Elle Fanning (The Great)
Sandra Oh (The Chair)
Jean Smart (Hacks)
Juno Temple (Ted Lasso)
Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso)

BEST TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES ACTOR
Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus)
Oscar Isaac (Scenes From a Marriage)
Michael Keaton (Dopesick)
Ewan McGregor (Halston)
Evan Peters (Mare of Easttown)

BEST TV MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES ACTRESS
Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
Cynthia Erivo (Genius: Aretha)
Margaret Qualley (Maid)
Jean Smart (Mare of Easttown)
Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown)

BEST TV SERIES STUNT ENSEMBLE
Cobra Kai
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Loki
Mare of Easttown
Squid Game

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