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Agence France-Presse

Vatican thriller Conclave won the top prize at an unpredictable Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards gala, throwing a potential late curveball into the Oscars race just a week before the Academy Awards.
The movie about the mysterious, behind-closed-doors selection process for choosing a new pope won the prize for best cast – the SAG equivalent of best picture – for a stellar ensemble including Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini.
Collecting the award, Fiennes said the win was a celebration of community and “the supreme importance of it in our work and in the world”.
Rossellini earlier wished “a quick recovery” to Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for 10 days with respiratory issues and remains in critical condition.


Having also won big at Britain’s recent Bafta awards, Conclave now appears a strong, late-breaking contender for the best picture Oscar, alongside critical darlings such as Anora.
In another upset, Timothée Chalamet won the SAG Award for best actor for his portrayal of a youthful Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

“I know we’re in a subjective business but the truth is, I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” said Chalamet, never short on confidence.
“I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats,” he added, citing inspirations including multiple Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Marlon Brando, and sporting titans Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps.
“I want to be up there,” said the 29-year-old.
Adrien Brody has long been seen as the runaway favourite for this year’s awards season with his performance as a brilliant architect, haunted by the Holocaust, in The Brutalist. But Chalamet’s win suggests that the Oscars race could be closer than expected.
The SAG Awards are voted on by Hollywood actors, who represent the biggest branch of the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which votes for the Oscars.

The prizes are therefore closely watched as indicators of who is likely to win Academy Awards.
More closely following pundit predictions, Demi Moore won the best actress SAG Award for her role in gory body horror The Substance.
Moore’s role as an ageing celebrity who injects a serum to temporarily reclaim her younger body – with disastrous consequences – has marked a stunning career renaissance for the 1990s megastar.
Acting “changed my life because it gave me meaning, it gave me purpose and it gave me direction, because I was a kid on my own, who had no blueprint for life”, she said.
Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldana won the best supporting actor and best supporting actress awards for A Real Pain and Emilia Perez respectively in an awards ceremony that aired on Netflix.

Culkin plays an emotional and charismatic tourist retracing his ancestral roots in Poland with his mismatched, neurotic cousin, played by Jesse Eisenberg.
Saldana portrays a lawyer hired to help a Mexican cartel boss undergo gender reassignment surgery in the scandal-hit Netflix film Emilia Perez.
Both have won nearly every prize in their categories at multiple shows this year, and appear to be shoo-ins for the Oscars next Sunday.

Jane Fonda received the union’s Life Achievement Award, and used much of her speech to urge Hollywood to “fight back” against the current state of US politics.
“A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” warned Fonda.
While not directly mentioning President Donald Trump, Fonda notably name-checked Sebastian Stan’s performance as Trump in the movie The Apprentice.
Comparing the present situation to the intolerance of the McCarthyism of the 1950s, Fonda said: “Today, it’s helpful to remember … that Hollywood resisted.”
Her comments, greeted with a standing ovation from the audience, came at a time when Hollywood studios has been criticised for falling in line with White House policies such as by ending diversity hiring programmes.

In the television awards, Japanese period drama Shogun won best ensemble and best stunt ensemble, while its stars Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada won individual awards.
In comedy, Martin Short won for best actor for Only Murders in the Building, which also won the best ensemble prize, while Jean Smart won for Hacks.


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SAG Awards top prize goes to Vatican thriller Conclave, best actor for Timothée Chalamet

Conclave cast members (from left) Sergio Castellitto, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, and Ralph Fiennes with the Screen Actors Guild awards for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture, the equivalent of best picture. Photo: EPA-EFE

Timothée Chalamet, winner of the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for A Complete Unknown, with his mother, Nicole Flender, at the31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Demi Moore poses with the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for The Substance at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Zoe Saldana with the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role in a motion picture for Emilia Perez. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Jane Fonda on the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo: Reuters

Moeka Hoshi (left) and Anna Sawai (in red) from the cast of Shogun, which won the SAG television awards for best ensemble and best stunt ensemble. Sawai also won a best actress award. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

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Vatican thriller Conclave takes top prize at SAG Awards, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldana win again; Shogun takes the top TV award


Vatican thriller Conclave takes top prize at SAG Awards, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldana win again; Shogun takes the top TV award.
