According to The New York Times, Christopher Nolan’s film ‘Oppenheimer’ secured three significant victories at the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
The wins encompassed Best Cast, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
In the competitive best actor race, ‘Oppenheimer’ star Murphy triumphed over Paul Giamatti (‘The Holdovers’) and Bradley Cooper from ‘Maestro;’, among others, for his performance as the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II.
And despite Emma Stone winning the BAFTA for best actress last weekend, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ star Lily Gladstone won at SAG for her role as an Osage woman whose family members are slaughtered by her husband (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his uncle.
According to The New York Times, Barbra Streisand accepted a lifetime achievement award. Noting that Hollywood was built by studio chiefs like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer, men who fled antisemitism in Eastern Europe, she said, “Now I dream of a world where such prejudice is a thing of the past.”
Later, she recalled her first film, ‘Funny Girl’ (1968), which set the tone for her career, thanks to the director, William Wyler, and the cinematographer, Harry Stradling. “They had no problem with young women with opinions,” she added.
Check out the complete winners list.