LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Small-town dramedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” led the 2018 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations on Wednesday in a list that shut out veterans Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis as well as Steven Spielberg’s press freedom movie “The Post.”
Instead, SAG members recognized performers in independent films that focused on women and people of color, throwing open the race for the Oscars in March.
“There’s not enough stories told by people of color and with people of color in the cast,” Kumail Nanjiani, co-writer and star of interracial romance nominee “The Big Sick,” told Reuters.
“We’re learning that audiences want to see those stories, and it’s not just about seeing themselves on screen, these are financially viable movies as well,” he added.
The SAG awards are indicators of likely Oscar success because actors form the largest group of voters in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. No film in 22 years has won best picture at the Oscars without being nominated for SAG’s top prize of best movie ensemble.
Women to take spotlight at Screen Actors Guild awards ceremony
SAG also hands out awards for television, with “Big Little Lies,” “Stranger Things” and female wrestling series “Glow” picking up four nominations each.
”The Crown,“ ”Game of Thrones,“ ”The Handmaid’s Tale,“ ”Stranger Things,“ and ”This is Us,“ will compete for best TV drama ensemble. The TV comedy best ensemble race will comprise ”Black-ish,“ ”Curb Your Enthusiasm,“ ”Glow,“ ”Orange is the New Black, and “Veep.”
Twentieth Century Fox and its independent film unit Fox Searchlight shared a leading nine nominations for movies, while Netflix was the leading network for television programs with 19 nods, followed by HBO
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