Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet and Win Top Premes in Sag Awards

The conclave was the great winner at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Sunday, leaving the Oscar’s career too close to call with a week for the end.

Pope selection drama He won the first prize of the ceremony, the best set of sets, continued his impulse of the late season after taking the best film in the Bafta last week.

Other winners included Demi Moore and Timothée Chalamet, who go to the Domingo Academy Awards with their chances of winning.

British actor Ralph Fiennes accepted the conclave prize, thanking director Edward Berger for his “perception, insight and care.”

Previously at the ceremony, his co -star Isabella Rossellini said that the cast of the film “wants to wish Pope Francis a rapid recovery” after He was diagnosed with pneumonia.

SAG winners are voted by other actors. On a night dotted with celebrations of the Union of Actors, Fiennes said: “We recognize the supreme importance of the community in our work and in the world.”

The conclave, which focuses on a group of gossip cardinals and scheme in Rome, could not win any other prize, but his victory in the superior category leaves him in a strong position before the Oscars on March 2.

The best image race has been open this year, with The brutalist and Emilia Pérez winning in the Golden Globes, Conclave In the BAFTA and now SAG awards, and Aor In a series of industry guilds, including votes by producers, writers and directors.

Moore’s victory for Body Horror, the substance, is the last turn in a close career of the best actress: the category looks like a dead heat between her and the newly arrived relative Mikey Madison, who won the Bafta.

“This is extraordinary and very significant,” Moore said as he collected his SAG trophy.

She remembered to have received her first SAG card at 15 “changed my life because it gave me meaning, it gave me a purpose and gave me direction.”

“I was a child on my own that I did not have a plan for life, and certainly I didn’t know anything about acting. But I looked at it, I heard and learned from all of you.

“You have all been my best teachers, and I am very grateful to have continued during these years to try, and sometimes they succeed and to fail, but to be able to move on.”

The substance sees Moore play an aging aerobic instructor who takes a drug from the black market to create a younger and more beautiful version of herself.

Otherwise, Chalamet was a surprise winner in the best actor thanks to his interpretation of Bob Dylan in a complete stranger, defeating Adrien Brody, who has been winning the category during the awards season.

“I know that the most elegant would be to minimize the effort that entered this role and how much this means for me,” Chalamet said in his speech.

“But the truth is that these were five and a half years of my life, I poured everything I have to play this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan, an American hero, and was the honor of a lifetime to interpret it.”

He concluded: “The truth is that I am really looking for greatness. I know that people don’t usually speak like that, but I want to be one of the greats, I am inspired by the greats.

“This does not mean that, but it is a little more fuel, a little more ammunition to move forward.”

A Royal Pain star, Kieran Culkin, was appointed best support actor for his performance as one of the two cousins ​​traveling through Poland in memory of his grandmother.

“Thank you SAG-AFTRA for this incredibly heavy award,” he joked as they gave his trophy on stage.

He described the prize as a “great honor”, and thanked the sister of its director Jesse Eisenberg for suggesting the role.

“He chose me in this movie without auditioning me, or seeing my job in anything,” Culkin recalled, “but he chose me because his sister told him to do it, so yes, thanks for Jesse for putting me in this movie, but I want to take A moment to thank your sister Hallie.

“Thank you Hallie for thinking about me and putting my name in your stupid brother’s ear.”

Zoe Saldaña continued his domain of the category of cast actress for his performance in the musical in Spanish Emilia Pérez, on a Mexican drug trafficker who changes gender.

“I am proud to be part of a union that allows me to be who I am,” said Saldaña.

“I think everyone has the right to be who we are, and Emilia Pérez is about the truth and it is about love.

“The actors now more than ever have to tell stories that are beautiful and that cause and live in the spectrum of artistic freedom.”

Wicked went home with SAG’s empty hands despite having most of the nominations, while the favorite of the best film, Anora, could not repeat any of his recent precursor profits.

On the other hand, Jamie Lee Curtis announced the winner of the best actor in a limited series in saying: “And the prize goes to the man who gave me Covid in the Golden Globes … Colin Farrell.”

“Guilty as accused,” Farrell joked as I took the stage, “but Brendon Gleeson gave me, so I was spreading love.”

Accepting his trophy for the penguin, Farrell said that being an actor meant that “you cannot grow completely, you can keep a child’s dream alive to try to discover what is human being.”

“It sounds cheesy to say it, but we are all supporting the actors. I understand it, the big parts go to the leads, the smallest pieces go to the players of the day and the extras, but we all support each other.”

The British winners included Jessica Gunning, who was recognized for playing a stalker named Martha in Baby Renoer, one of last year’s greatest television hits.

“I feel that such a lucky bunny is in this room, much less being nominated,” Gunning said.

He remembered having worked in an office when he started as an actress, and created a viewing board using Power Point that presented inspiring people with whom he wanted to work.

“Cate Blanchett, Kathy Bates and Jodie Foster were on that viewing board,” he said, referring to his nominees.

“And so, being on their list today, really means more for me than I can express.”

She concluded: “Thanks to all those involved in baby reindeer for changing my life, and thanks to (writer and creator) Richard Gadd for making my dreams come true.”

Meanwhile, Shogun swept the television drama categories, with individual awards for their Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai stars.

“I am very happy, but also a little sad, because this is probably the last time I can celebrate work with you,” Sawai told your co -star from the stage.

Accepting the drama of TV drama, healed said: “It was a great trip and 70% Japanese with subtitles, it must have been a great bet.”

“But Shogun and this award show us that acting is a universal language.”

The best comedy series was only for murders in the building, with its star Selena Gomez was surprised to have won when he accepted the award.

“We never win, this is so strange,” he said. “I am very grateful, the writers, everyone deserves this, I am bringing this back to New York for the fifth season.”

The ceremony was organized by no one wants this star Kristen Bell, who opened the ceremony by welcoming the Los Angeles Firefighters who were at the audience.

The workers of the Los Angeles Fire Department were invited to the event in recognition of their service during the recent forest fires of the city that left 29 people dead and thousands of houses destroyed.

Veteran actress Jane Fonda received this year from the Lifetime Achievement award, the highest honor of the interim union.

“I love acting, we can open people’s minds to new ideas, take them beyond what they understand the world and help them laugh when things are difficult,” he said.

“And for a woman like me, who grew up in the 40s and 50s, when women were supposed to have no opinions and got angry, act gave me the opportunity to play angry women with opinions, which, as you know, It is an exaggeration for me, “she joked.

“I am a great believer in the unions, they have their backs, they bring us to the community and give us power. This is really important at this time when the power of the workers is being attacked and the community is weakening.”

In a passionate speech that indirectly referred to political agitation, Fonda concluded: “We should not fool ourselves about what is happening.

“We should not isolate ourselves, we must remain in the community, help the vulnerable, we must find a way to project an inspiring vision of the future.”