Last night, the Screen Actors’ Guild Award displayed real diversity that Jessica Chastain pleaded for two weeks ago at the Critics’ Choice Awards and that the Academy so atrociously rejected. SAG seemed to scare AMPAS straight by saying, “If you’re not gonna show any diversity, then we will!” Two of the three awards for female performances in television went to African-Americans. Uzo Aduba won Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series for fan favorite (as well as a character I’m very fond of), Crazy Eyes on Orange Is the New Black. Viola Davis won Best Female Actor in a Drama Series for brass-knuckled, no-nonsense defense attorney/law professor Annalise Keating on the excellent How to Get Away with Murder. When co-presenter as well as Davis’ co-star, Matt McGorry, read her name, it made me punch my fists in the air shouting, “YES!” I was so thrilled with the victory that it got me over the fact that she didn’t win the Golden Globe. Speaking of diversity, there’s something I neglected to my mention in my blog post analyzing the Oscar nominations and wanted to take a moment to mention in this post: 2006 was a prime example in Oscar diversity at its finest. The acting nominees included three Brits, four African-Americans, an African, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Canadian, an Irishman, an Australian and an Asian. The show’s host that year, Ellen DeGeneres, touched on the diversity, saying, “If there werent blacks, Jews and gays, there would be no Oscars.” Orange Is the New Black also won Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series, finally breaking Modern Family’s streak in that category. I’m happy that William H. Macy won Best Male Actor in a Comedy Series for Shameless. I don’t watch the show, but I hear good things about it. Downton Abbey’s victory for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series I found to be really displeasing. I’m looking forward to a drama that’s far more deserving of a win. Frances McDormand’s Best Female Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Olive Kitteridge was well-deserved, yet her speech was kind of self-serving. No mentions of Bill Murray, Lisa Cholodenko, Jane Anderson or Elizabeth Strout. SAG had its ‘ya never know’ factor by awarding Eddie Redmayne the honor for Best Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture in The Theory of Everything, where he plays Stephen Hawking. It was supposed to go to Michael Keaton for Birdman. Now we’re gonna have to watch closely over who wins the BAFTA. I can’t believe Kevin Spacey wasn’t there. I would’ve wanted to hear him talk in the Frank voice. I love it when he does that. I’ve always found the SAG Awards to be very watchable. It goes by rather quickly. So much so that it doesn’t even need an emcee.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:46:45 +0000
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