Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet and Conclave Win Top Awards at SAG Awards

The conclave was the big winner of the SAG Guild Awards (SAG) on Sunday, leaving the Oscars too close to call a week.

Pope's selection drama He won the biggest award at the ceremony, the best cast, continuing his speed at the end of the season after taking the best movie last week Baftas.

Other winners included Demi Moore and Timote Chalamet, and they both head to the Academy Awards on Sunday with their chances of winning.

British actor Ralph Fines accepted the Conclaw award, thanking director Edward Berger for his “perception, insight and care.”

Earlier at the ceremony, his co-star Isabella Rosselini said the cast “wanted to wish Pope Francis a quick recovery” He was diagnosed with pneumonia.

SAG winners are voted by fellow actors. At night, strewn with the festivities of the Union of Actors, Fine said, “We recognize the supreme importance of the community in our work and in the world.”

The conclave, which focuses on a group of gossip and a cardinal scheme in Rome, failed to win other awards, but his victory in the largest category leaves him in a strong position in front of the Oscars on March 2.

The best paintings competition was wide open this year, with Brutalist and Emilia Perez Winning the golden globes, Conclave of the BAFTAS Awards and now SAG, and Aor Of a series of industrial guilds, including those voted by producers, writers and directors.

Moore's victory for Body Horror The substance is the most recent turn in the narrow race for the best actress -the category is regarded as a dead heat between her and the relative newcomer Mothers Madison, who won BAFTA.

“It's extremely and so deeply meaningful,” Moore said as he collects his SAG trophy.

She recalled that she received her first SAG card at age 15 “changed my life because it gave me meaning, it gave me a goal and gave me a direction.”

“I was a kid alone, who had no lifelong plan. I certainly didn't know anything about acting. But I watched, listened and learned from all of you.

“You were all my biggest teachers and I am so grateful that I have continued for many years so that I can try and sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, but I can move on.”

The substance sees that Moore is playing an aging aerobics instructor who accepts a black market medicine to create a more jelly and beautiful version of himself.

Elsewhere, Chalamet was the winner of surprise in the best actor thanks to his portrait of Bob Dylan in a complete unknown, beating Adrien Brody, who won the category during the awards season.

“I know that the most classic thing would be to downplay the efforts that have come into this role and how much it means to me,” Chalamet said in his speech.

“But the truth is that it was five and a half years of my life. I poured everything I have to play this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan, an American character, and was the honor of his life. “

He concluded, “The truth is, I really strive for greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the great ones, I am inspired by the great ones.

“That doesn't mean this, but it's a little more fuel, a little more ammo to continue.”

The star of real pain Kiran Culkin was named the most supportive actor for presenting him as one of the two cousins ​​traveling around Poland in a memory of their grandmother.

“Thank you SAG-AFTRA for this incredibly heavy award,” he joked as he was given the trophy on stage.

He described the award as “a huge honor” and thanked the sister of his director Jesse Eisenberg for proposing it for the role.

“He threw me into this movie without listening to me, or to see my work on what to take a little time to thank your sister Hallie.

“Thank Hali for thinking about me and put my name in your stupid brother's ear.”

Zoe Saldanya continued her dominance of the supporting actress category for her presentation in Spanish, musical Emilia Perez, a Mexican Lord of Drugs, which changes gender.

“I am proud to be part of an union that allows me to be the way I am,” Saldany said.

“I believe that everyone has the right to be who we are, and Emilia Perez is about the truth and it is about love.

“Actors now more than ever have to tell stories that are beautiful and thoughtful, provoking and live in the spectrum of artistic freedom.”

Wicked got home with SAG empty -handed, although there were the most nominations, while the best picture Frontrunner Anora also failed to repeat any of his last winner's victories.

Elsewhere, Jamie Lee Curtis announced the winner at Best Actor in a limited series, saying, “And the award goes to the man who gave me Covid to The Golden Globes … Colin Farrell.”

“Guilty on an accusation,” Farrell joked when he came on stage, “but Brandon Gleeson gave me it, so I just spread love.”

Accepting your trophy for penguin, Farrell said that being an actor meant that “you can't grow up completely, you have to keep a child's dream alive to try to understand what it is like to be human.”

“It sounds cheeky to say, but we all support the actors. I understand it, the big parts go to leading, the smaller parts go to day players and extras, but we all support each other.”

The British winners included Jessica Guning, who was recognized for playing a stalker named Martha in Baby Reindeer, one of the biggest TV hits last year.

“I feel like a lucky bunny to be in this room, let alone be nominated,” Guning said.

She recalled that she worked in an office when she started as an actress and created a vision using Power Point, in which she presented inspirational people she wanted to work with.

“Kate Blanchett, Katie Bates and Jody Foster were in this vision advice,” she noted, citing her fellow candidates.

“And so to be listed with them today, it really means more to me than I can ever express.”

She concluded: “Thank you all participating in baby deer for changing my life, and thank you to (writer and creator) Richard Gad for fulfilling my dreams.”

Meanwhile, Shogun swept the categories of television drama, with individual awards for his stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Savay.

“I am very happy, but somehow sad, because this is probably the last time I am able to celebrate the work with you,” Savay told Co-stars from the stage.

Accepting the television drama award, Sanada said: “It was a great trip and 70% Japanese with subtitles, it must have been a big gambling game.

“But Shogun and this award show us that acting is a universal language.”

The best comedy series went only for killings in the building, with his star Selena Gomez appearing shocked that she won as she accepted the award.

“We never win, it's so weird,” she said. “I'm so grateful, the writers, everyone deserves this, I return this to New York for the fifth season.”

The ceremony hosted no one wants this star Kristen Bell, who opened the ceremony by welcoming firefighters in Los Angeles, who were among the audience.

Los Angeles fire service workers were invited to the event in recognition of their service during the last fires in the city, which left 29 people killed and thousands of homes destroyed.

The Actress -The Caine Jane Fonda was this year's recipient of the award for achievement in life, the highest honor of the active union.

“I like to deal with acting. We will open people's minds to new ideas, bring them beyond what they understand about the world, and help them laugh when things are rough,” she said.

“And for a woman like me who grew up in the 40s and 50s, when women did not have to have opinions and,” she joked.

“I am a great believer in the unions, they have their backs, they bring us into the community and give us power. This is really important when the power of workers is attacking and the community weakens.”

In a dispassionate speech that indirectly refers to political turmoil, the fund concluded: “We should not deal with what is happening.

“We should not isolate, we have to stay in the community, help vulnerable, we need to find a way to design an inspiring vision for the future.”