'Birdman' tops Screen Actors Guild Awards
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E-mail CRI, January 27, 2015
Birdman has topped the annual Screen Actors Guild Award, winning the best ensemble cast.
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The poster of Birdman. [File photo: mtime.com] |
This gives the film starring Michael Keaton a boost in the run up to the Academy Awards as the producer's guild have successfully predicted the winner of best picture at the Oscars for the past seven years.
Oscar favorites Julianne Moore, Patricia Arquette and J.K. Simmons cemented their front-runner status for the Oscars.
Julianne Moore, widely considered the best-actress favorite, won most supporting actress for "Still Alice," in which she plays an academic with early onset Alzehimer's disease.
"Boyhood" star Patricia Arquette added the latest in a string of awards on Sunday, taking the supporting actress honor for her performance, filmed over the course of 12 years.
"I can't tell you what this means to me. I'm a fourth-generation actor. My family has been committed to acting for over a century, through feast or famine."
Best ensemble cast in a drama series went to "Downton Abbey," the second time the series has won the category.
Because actors make up the largest portion of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are also considered one of the most telling Oscar previews. Individually acting winners usually mirror each other exactly, or very nearly.
Last year, the top four winners - Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong'o, Jared Leto - all went on to win Academy Awards after first scooping up SAG awards.
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