Gautam Anand
The tides are turning. Only a couple of days back it seemed like Best Picture Oscar race was a one-horse race, but with ‘Birdman’ winning the PGA Award for Best Film yesterday and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award — voted by actors of the industry many of whom are Academy members too — for Best Ensemble today, the race is now wide open. If ‘Birdman’ also wins Directors Guild Award (DGA), which is to be announced on 7th Feb, you will have a new frontrunner to win the Best Picture Oscar. Though, arguably, ‘Birdman’ is already a frontrunner. We’ll see how the race takes shape in the next few days, but things are not looking good for ‘Boyhood’ at the moment.
Here’s the full list of SAG Award winners (indicated in red):
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Naomi Watts, St. Vincent
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
