Christopher Nolan’s historic epic picks up high honour for excellent solid upfront of subsequent month’s Oscars.
Oppenheimer has picked up three prizes, together with the highest honour, at Hollywood’s Display Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, boosting the historic epic’s probabilities of grabbing the Oscar for greatest image subsequent month.
Christopher Nolan’s portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer, the daddy of the atomic bomb, received the award for greatest film solid, traditionally a robust predictor for the Oscars, on the star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Cillian Murphy, who performs the titular character, received greatest film actor, whereas co-star Robert Downey Jr picked up one of the best supporting actor trophy for enjoying his bitter rival.
“That is extraordinarily particular to me as a result of it comes from you guys,” Murphy stated as he accepted his award.
The ceremony was the primary gala organised by SAG-AFTRA, which represents some 160,000 leisure trade professionals, because the union held its longest-ever strike final 12 months.
The present was additionally streamed stay on Netflix, a primary for a Tinseltown ceremony.
Kenneth Branagh, who performs Danish physicist Niels Bohr in Oppenheimer, recalled how the movie’s solid staged a walkout from the London premiere final July because the strike was about to start.
“We fortunately went within the path of solidarity together with your good selves,” Branagh stated. “So this, it is a full circle second for us,” he stated, to loud applause.
Oppenheimer, which has already claimed prizes on the Golden Globes and the British Academy Movie Awards, is the robust favorite for greatest image going into the Oscars on March 11.
The movie has been nominated for 13 Oscars in whole, together with greatest director, greatest actor and greatest supporting actor, forward of Yorgos Lanthimos’s steampunk fantasy Poor Issues with 11 nods.
On the previous two SAG awards, all 5 high prizes predicted the eventual Oscar winners.
Different winners on Saturday included Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, for which Lily Gladstone picked up one of the best actress prize, and The Holdovers, which earned Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph greatest supporting actress.
Barbra Streisand, the winner of two Oscars and 10 Grammy awards, obtained a lifetime achievement award in recognition of her six-decade-long profession in leisure.
