SAG Awards

Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez were surprise (and plainly surprised) winners at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards, which streamed live on Netflix on Sunday, Feb. 23 from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.
Chalamet won outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Adrien Brody had won in that category at most other awards shows for The Brutalist and was expected to win here too.

“I was not expecting this at all,” Chalamet said. “This was five-and-a-half years of my life. I poured everything into playing him. It was an honor to play him, a true American hero.” Chalamet, who is just 29, said he is in pursuit of greatness, naming Marlon Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis and Viola Davis as three actors he especially admires. He said this award was “fuel” to keep going.

Chalamet is vying to become the youngest Oscar winner ever for best actor next Sunday March 2. The SAG win, and Chalamet’s thoughtful acceptance speech, won’t affect his Oscar chances. Final-round voting closed Feb. 18.

Individual SAG winners for film acting generally go on to win Oscars. Three years ago, and again two years ago, all four SAG winners repeated at the Oscars. But last year, one of the four stumbled: Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) won the SAG Award, but went on to lose the Oscar for best actress to Emma Stone (Poor Things).

Gomez shared the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series with her Only Murder in the Building co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short, neither of whom was present. The Only Murders cast had lost the last three years to the casts of Ted Lasso, Abbott Elementary and The Bear, respectively. (Other cast members who shared in the ensemble award this season were Michael Cyril Creighton, Zach Galifianakis, Richard Kind, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Kumail Nanjiani and Molly Shannon.)

“We never win,” an amazed Gomez said as she accepted the award. “This is so weird. Marty [Short] and Steve [Martin] aren’t here because they don’t care,” she joked. “Thank you to Marty and Steve for helping to raise me. I’m bringing this back to New York as we begin to work on Season 5.”

Short won a second award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series.

Conclave won the SAG award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. The last three winners of the SAG cast award – CODA, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Oppenheimer – went on to win the Oscar for best picture, but over the entire history of the SAG Awards, the cast award has been only a so-so predictor of Oscar glory. Of the first 28 winners of the cast award, 15 went on to win best picture; 14 did not.

The best picture race has been especially hard to peg this year. At the Golden Globes, The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez were the winners for drama and musical or comedy, respectively. At the Critics Choice Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards, Anora won. (Anora also won at three major guild awards – the Producers Guild, Directors Guild and Writers Guild.) Conclave was the pick at the BAFTA Awards.

Wicked went 0-5 on the night.It had tied the all-time SAG record for most nominations by a film. Previous films that received five SAG Award nods were Chicago, Doubt, Shakespeare in Love, The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Shōgun was the top winner on the TV side, with four awards, including outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series.

Actress and producer Kristen Bell hosted the annual ceremony, which bills itself as “the only awards show for actors, by actors.” Bell was nominated for outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series for the Netflix hit Nobody Wants This. Bell sang a parody version of her Frozen hit “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” titled “Do You Want to Be an Actor,” in which early photos of dozens of nominated actors were shown.

Several songs were featured during the show. The Diane Warren composition “The Journey,” sung by H.E.R. in the Netflix film The Six Triple Eight, soundtracked the In Memoriam segment. The song is nominated for an Oscar this year. Dolly Parton’s Billboard Hot 100-topping “9 to 5” was featured in the Fonda tribute. Marlena Shaw’s version of Ashford & Simpson’s “California Soul” was featured in a segment on Los Angeles.

There was a fun segment on the many young actors who played guest roles on the long-running Law and Order, including Keke Palmer, Chalamet and Sabrina Carpener.

The SAG Awards are voted on by SAG-AFTRA’s membership of 122,000+ performers, by far the largest voting body on the awards circuit.

Silent House Productions produced the telecast in partnership with SAG-AFTRA.

Here’s the complete list of nominations, with winners marked.

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

WINNER: Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig, Queer

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison, Anora

WINNER: Demi Moore, The Substance

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role

Jonathan Bailey, Wicked

Yura Borisov, Anora

WINNER: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl

Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson

Ariana Grande, Wicked

WINNER: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture

A Complete Unknown — Monica Barbaro, Norbert Leo Butz, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Dan Fogler, Will Harrison, Eriko Hatsune, Boyd Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Big Bill Morganfield, Edward Norton

Anora –Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison, Aleksey Serebryakov, Vache Tovmasyan

WINNER: Conclave – Sergio Castellitto, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci

Emilia Pérez –Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña

Wicked –Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

WINNER: The Fall Guy

Gladiator II

Wicked

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series

Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

WINNER: Colin Farrell, The Penguin

Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer

Kevin Kline, Disclaimer

Andrew Scott, Ripley

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series

Kathy Bates, The Great Lillian Hall

Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer

Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country

Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge

WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer

Cristin Milioti, The Penguin

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series

Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun

Jeff Bridges, The Old Man

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal

WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series

Kathy Bates, Matlock

Nicola Coughlan, Bridgerton

Allison Janney, The Diplomat

Keri Russell, The Diplomat

WINNER: Anna Sawai, Shōgun

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside

Harrison Ford, Shrinking

WINNER: Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series

Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

WINNER: Jean Smart, Hacks

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series

Bridgerton — Geraldine Alexander,Victor Alli, Adjoa Andoh, Julie Andrews, Lorraine Ashbourne, Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, Joe Barnes, Joanna Bobin, James Bryan, Harriet Cains, Bessie Carter, Genevieve Chenneour, Dominic Coleman, Nicola Coughlan, Kitty Devlin, Hannah Dodd, Daniel Francis, Ruth Gemmell, Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Sesley Hope, Florence Hunt, Martins Imhangbe, Molly Jackson-Shaw, Claudia Jessie, Lorn MacDonald, Jessica Madsen, Emma Naomi, Hannah New, Luke Newton, Caleb Obediah, James Phoon, Vineeta Rishi, Golda Rosheuvel, Hugh Sachs, Banita Sandhu, Luke Thompson, Will Tilston, Polly Walker, Anna Wilson-Jones, Sophie Woolley

The Day of the Jackal —Khalid Abdalla, Jon Arias, Nick Blood, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Ben Hall, Chukwudi Iwuji, Patrick Kennedy, Puchi Lagarde, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Eddie Redmayne, Sule Rimi, Lia Williams

The Diplomat — Ali Ahn, Sandy Amon-Schwartz, Tim Delap, Penny Downie, Ato Essandoh, David Gyasi, Celia Imrie, Rory Kinnear, Pearl Mackie, Nana Mensah, Graham Miller, Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Adam Silver, Kenichiro Thomson

WINNER: Shōgun —Shinnosuke Abe, Tadanobu Asano, Tommy Bastow, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi, Hiromoto Ida, Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroto Kanai, Yuki Kura, Takeshi Kurokawa, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai

Slow Horses —Ruth Bradley,Tom Brooke, James Callis, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Sean Gilder, Kadiff Kirwan, Jack Lowden, Gary Oldman, Jonathan Pryce, Saskia Reeves, Joanna Scanlan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Wirthner, Tom Wozniczka

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series

Abbott Elementary –Quinta Brunson, William Stanford Davis, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams

The Bear —Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott, Edwin Lee Gibson, Corey Hendrix, Matty Matheson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ricky Staffieri, Jeremy Allen White

Hacks — Rose Abdoo, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Paul W. Downs, Hannah Einbinder, Mark Indelicato, Jean Smart, Megan Stalter

WINNER: Only Murders in the Building — Michael Cyril Creighton, Zach Galifianakis, Selena Gomez, Richard Kind, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Steve Martin, Kumail Nanjiani, Molly Shannon, Martin Short

Shrinking —Harrison Ford, Brett Goldstein, Devin Kawaoka, Gavin Lewis, Wendie Malick, Lukita Maxwell, Ted McGinley, Christa Miller, Jason Segel, Rachel Stubington, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Jessica Williams

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series

The Boys

Fallout

House of the Dragon

The Penguin

WINNER: Shōgun