The winners of the 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced tonight. With actors comprising the largest voting block of of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the SAG Awards have traditionally been a reliable predictor of Oscar winners in the acting categories and, to a lesser extent, the best picture winner. (SAG awards a Best Performance by a Cast award rather than a Best Picture recognition, which accounts for some of the discrepancy.) Over the last five years, only three out of the twenty actors who won a SAG Award didn’t go on go grab Oscars as well, and one of those stemmed from the fact that Kate Winslet, nominated in the Supporting Actress category in the 2008 SAG Awards for her work in The Reader was on the ballot in the Best Lead Actress category for the Oscars, where she lost to SAG Lead Actress award winner Meryl Streep (for Doubt). Of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the same span, three also won Best Cast, with the exceptions being 2011, when The Help lost the Oscar to The Artist, and 2009, when The Hurt Locker beat out Inglorious Basterds.
Here are this year’s winners:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Other Nominees:
- Bruce Dern, Nebraska
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
- Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
- Forest Whitaker, Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Other Nominees:
- Sandra Bullock, Gravity
- Judi Dench, Philomena
- Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
- Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Other Nominees:
- Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
- Daniel Bruhl, Rush
- Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
- James Gandolfini, Enough Said
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years A Slave
Other Nominees:
- Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
- Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
- June Squibb, Nebraska
- Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Winner: American Hustle
Other Nominees:
- 12 Years a Slave
- August: Osage County
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler