Actor Awards Analysis: ‘Sinners’ Makes a Stand, But Will It Carry Over to the Oscars?
The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor of awards coverage dissects Sunday night's ceremony.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment For months, One Battle After Another was winning everything , including the top prizes at the Critics Choice Awards on Jan. 4, Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11, Directors Guild Awards on Feb. 7, BAFTA Awards on Feb. 22 and Producers Guild Awards on Saturday. But at the Actor Awards (formerly the SAG Awards ) on Sunday — the first day of March, and smack dab in the middle of the weeklong final round of Oscars voting — the other big Warner Bros. contender, Sinners , showed major signs of life. Indeed, Ryan Coogler ’s blockbuster genre film walked away with the prize for best cast — vanquishing not only One Battle but also Hamnet , Marty Supreme and Frankenstein — and, in the night’s biggest surprise, best actor for Michael B. Jordan , calling into question the conventional wisdom about not only the best picture Oscar race, but also the long-presumed frontrunner status of Marty Supreme ’s Timothée Chalamet in the best actor Oscar race (which was also dinged at last weekend’s BAFTA Awards). Related Stories Movies Actor Awards Snubs and Surprises: Timothée Chalamet Loses Second Lead Actor Prize in a Row; Keri Russell Nabs Unexpected Win Movies All the Highlights From Timothée Chalamet's Night at the 2026 Actor Awards Before going any further, it must be acknowledged that the Actor Awards and the Oscars are voted on by very different bodies. Actor Award winners are chosen by the roughly 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, the world’s largest union of actors, who are overwhelmingly based in the U.S., while Oscar winners are chosen by the roughly 11,000 members of the Academy, which is composed of people from every sector of the film industry, 20 percent of whom are based outside of the U.S. And if one wants proof that the two groups aren’t always on the s...
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