Two productions of genre interest won multiple categories at the SAG Awards 2024 ceremony on February 24.
Oppenheimer dominated the film side, winning the Cast in a Motion Picture prize, while Cillian Murphy won Male Actor in a Leading Role, and Robert Downey Jr. won Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
On the television side, The Last of Us’ Pedro Pascal won Male Actor in a Drama Series and the series also won the Stunt Ensemble award.
The SAG Awards are the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ annual celebration of the year’s best TV and film.
The complete list of winners follows the jump.
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Oppenheimer
Casey Affleck as Boris Pash
Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh as Niels Bohr
Matt Damon as Leslie Groves
Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss
Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence
Rami Malek as David Hill
Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart – Killers of the Flower Moon
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer – Oppenheimer
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Succession
Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch
Juliana Canfield as Jess Jordan
Brian Cox as Logan Roy
Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy
Dagmara Dominczyk as Karolina Novotney
Peter Friedman as Frank Vernon
Justine Lupe as Willa
Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans
Arian Moayed as Stewy Hosseini
Scott Nicholson as Colin Stiles
David Rasche as Karl Muller
Alan Ruck as Connor Roy
Alexander Skarsgård as Lukas Matsson
J. Smith-Cameron as Gerri Kellman
Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy
Fisher Stevens as Hugo Baker
Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy
Zoë Winters as Kerry Castellabate
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
- Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana – The Crown
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss – Oppenheimer
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
The Bear
Lionel Boyce as Marcus
Jose Cervantes Jr. as Angel
Liza Colón-Zayas as Tina
Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu
Abby Elliott as Natalie Sugar Berzatto
Richard Esteras as Manny
Edwin Lee Gibson as Ebraheim
Molly Gordon as Claire
Corey Hendrix as Sweeps
Matty Matheson as Neil Fak
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard Richie Jerimovich
Oliver Platt as Jimmy Cicero Kalinowski
Jeremy Allen White as Carmen Carmy Berzatto
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Steven Yeun as Danny Cho – Beef
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Da’vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb – The Holdovers
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Pedro Pascal as Joel – The Last of Us
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
- Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu – The Bear
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Ali Wong as Amy Lau – Beef
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- Jeremy Allen White as Carmen Carmy Berzatto – The Bear
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
- The Last of Us
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I’m asking a question here simply because I don’t understand, I’m NOT disagreeing with the decision: why is Oppenheimer considered genre? It’s not a documentary so it is “fiction” of a sort but it’s about a real event from the past, not speculative. Is it the science of it? I’m fine if that’s the answer. Granted, I haven’t seen the movie, so if I’m missing something, please enlighten me. 🙂
ArbysMom: I started out thinking of Oppenheimer as a film of “genre interest” because it is a dramatized account about work in science and technology. And for the constant overtone of angst and moralizing about the unparalleled power that was being created through that work.
In contrast, the Paul Newman movie on the same subject, Fat Man and Little Boy never struck me as being of genre interest because it told the story more in terms of a war movie.
There’s no reason a historical-themed movie with big moral issues — Schindler’s List for example — can’t be categorized as just that.
However, Oppenheimer has a flow of anticipatory dread of the future that’s very common in science fiction, which makes it a candidate for its admirers among fandom to want to appropriate into the genre.
Thanks, Mike. 🙂
I think there is a very strong argument to see Oppenheimer and the Manhatten Project or at least the idea of it, as a major influence on US science fiction. The idea of a set of scientist/engineers coming together to create a unique super weapon to win a war is very Campbellian in nature (to the degree of Campbell getting a bit too close to idea (https://www.futilitycloset.com/2010/05/31/the-cleve-cartmill-affair/ ).
Whereas, the emotionally torn physicist whose progressive political views sit difficulty with the society he is working in has a lot in common with Le Guin’s The Dispossessed because she partly used him as inspiration for the central character (her parents knew him).
I think the connection with science fiction is a very strong one but it arises out of historical contingency rather than from any abstract classification of what is and isn’t science fiction.
I heard a recording of an Asimov speech recently in which he expressed (mock) outrage about how he felt when the mainstream press started talking about atomic bombs after 1945 – “That’s our atom bomb! They can’t talk about that!” I’ll let them talk about it – but it’s still our subject.
Thanks