After months of direct confrontation in a bitter Hollywood strike, the Screen Actors Guild and Netflix are offering each other a two-hour olive branch: The 30th SAG Awards airs tonight on the platform for the first time.
Many hopes hang on both sides of that branch. SAG is betting that Netflix can give its awards show, traditionally seen as a predictive precursor to the Oscars, a much broader audience than it reached in previous years. Netflix is determined to prove that it can broadcast a live event with the same success as any television network.
Of course, it's the biggest stars who will be Saturday's draw, including a rare public appearance by Barbra Streisand, who will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award. She comes because, as she recently told Glenn Whipp of The Times, she liked the fact that “so many actors marched and worked so hard to get what they campaigned for,” and also because “I was told beforehand that I had the chance”. grant! Without traumas or dramas.”
Follow along all night as Mary McNamara, Meredith Blake and Josh Rottenberg report on the proceedings live. We hope the “no drama” rule doesn't extend to the show.
List of winners | All the looks from the red carpet
5:03 p.m. The show is starting, Hannah Waddington is telling a great story about having a mouse in her dress when she was starring in “Spamalot” and the only thing I can think about is salmon. Thanks, josh.
Idris Elba took the stage and said he can't wait until he can go home and watch the show Netflix recommends to him based on all the other things he's seen and starred in, before turning into a short scream. to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Sorry, it's still strange that months after the vitriolic “Netflix strike,” the SAG Awards are on Netflix. I guess that's Hollywood. —MM
16:57 I find it striking that so far there hasn't been a single mention (that I've noticed) of the actors' strike on the Netflix red carpet. It's like mom and dad got back together after a brief separation and no one wants to talk about it. —MEGABYTE
It's noteworthy and a little strange: It's hard to imagine that the irony of Netflix hosting the SAG Awards went unnoticed during the show, since many points of contractual dispute centered on the disruption of the Hollywood business model by of streaming. Not surprisingly, none of the gray carpet questions (correction, silver) touched on this topic. After all, this is a Netflix production. (Random shoutout to Welteroth, who is one of the best on-mat interviewers I've seen in my long career covering this stuff.) Waiting to see if there are any mentions during the acceptance speeches. We will be very disappointed if there are not. —MM
With the show about to begin, SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland speaks to attendees about the significant progress made during the strike. “This room is a living metaphor for the unity and solidarity that brought us to this point.” They also showed an exciting clip of scenes from the strike to great applause. It's difficult to know if any of the striking actors shown in the images were demonstrating in front of Netflix headquarters. —J.R.
16:51 Hannah Waddingham wins best dressed, in my esteemed opinion, for carrying a homemade cardboard tote bag made by her daughter. Honestly, she's the chicest thing I've seen all night. —MEGABYTE
And Idris Elba is in the building. Everything's fine. —MM
Elba will open and close the show, according to producers, but they don't go so far as to call him a “host.” —J.R.
16:48 Kieran Culkin went “Full Hugh Grant” in Welteroth, giving him grief for leaning on him and taking off his painful shoes on the red carpet. I'm always here for a grouch on the red carpet. —MEGABYTE
Meanwhile, Billie Eilish just confessed her teleprompter phobia. Well, we all have to be afraid of something. —MM
4:44 p.m. Wait, they're giving out awards on the carpet? Supossely Yes. For the set of specialists in a television series, it is “The Last of Us”; for the movie “Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I.” He feels a little arrogant and anticlimactic considering, you know, all those stunts involved. I mean, they could have had Tom Cruise jump all the top tables on a motorcycle or something. —MM
Tan France shows off his unorthodox bow tie at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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16:39 If anyone watching at home is curious what attendees will be eating, the “light dinner” will be chive-crusted salmon. It is served cold, which is good because it has been on the tables for a while and very few people have sat down yet. —J.R.
Josh, that article about cold salmon should have come with a warning. Maybe it's a good thing everyone in Hollywood is on Ozempic these days. —MEGABYTE
And they're halfway through awards season. My favorite post-Oscar Governors Ball memory is watching all the stars head straight for the bread baskets. They can finally eat! Honestly, you could lose a finger trying to claim a pretzel roll. —MM
16:34 Sorry, Tan said he wanted Jessica Chastain's babies? Tonight she is really taking an unexpected turn. —MEGABYTE
I don't know, France, Debicki, Welteroth and Chastain were all talking to each other from separate parts of the carpet through screens. Which was a little strange. Chastain then chatted with Bradley Cooper, who he apparently knows from the PTA? Meanwhile, Jon Hamm was standing in the background, as if he couldn't understand why no one was interviewing him. Also, I always forget that Alan Ruck is married to Mireille Enos, who looks amazing. —MM
16:29 For reasons of her own, Tan France has just given Glen Powell a wrist corsage, which Powell mistakenly identified as a boutonniere. Since I haven't seen a wrist corsage since my prom, let alone at a Hollywood awards show, I can barely obsess over Cillian Murphy's accent. —MM
I can't help but notice the prevalence of Netflix stars on the red carpet so far, including Wong (“Beef”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”) and Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”). I'm glad they let Murphy talk for a minute or two because he could listen to that accent all day. —MEGABYTE
Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”) arriving at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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16:22 The pre-show is underway and we're looking at the gray carpet with Tan France, in a crazy… bow tie? Boba Straw? Inflatable stick? – and Elaine Welteroth, who gave us a look at fashion trends from previous SAG Awards before kicking off with Ali Wong wearing a black and white dress decorated with what looked like a bunch of handmade paper snowflakes. Also, my first little telecast fail. —MM
Ali Wong was the first (but hopefully not the last) person to mention “vaginal birth” on the carpet tonight. Greetings for that. —MEGABYTE
16:15 I'm very excited to watch the Screen Actors Guild Awards as Netflix continues its attempt to prove it can do everything streaming/cable can do, except breaking news. (When Netflix announces it's entering the journalism space, you heard it here first.) However, I was a little worried as I struggled to find pre-show coverage anywhere – I had to search to find the listing for the actual show. , which says it starts at 5 pm Pacific time. Instead, they urged me to rewatch “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which swept the awards last year. And, frankly, it's tempting. —MM
Same thing here, Mary, except the algorithm suggested I keep watching “The Crown” and “Love Is Blind,” because it knows I love shows about emotionally stunted people in doomed relationships. Netflix is known for eschewing traditional marketing and using “the algorithm” to suggest certain shows based on “taste groups” (which, in fact, are not a brand of granola). But the thing about live TV is that you need to know when it's broadcast in order to watch it. And if the algorithm can't figure out that I, a person who writes about entertainment for a living and who grew up watching every award show known to man, might be interested in watching celebrities win trophies and give packed speeches of tears, then he has to do it. better. —MEGABYTE
Yeah, it was a little strange sitting here staring at a screen that just said “It's almost time; the live event will start soon” instead of, I don’t know, the final minutes of a rerun of “The Closer.” —MM
What worries me most is that the whole “No Ads” thing means no snack breaks, which are really essential for watching awards shows at home. Mary, how do you plan to spend two whole hours without going to the kitchen to refill the popcorn? —MEGABYTE
Crime. She hadn't thought about that. And at the SAG Awards there are no “boring” categories. (Sorry for the editing/sound mixing!) —MM
