Demi Moore wins Best Actress at the SAG Awards
Demi Moore won Best Actress for The Substance at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards, adding another wrinkle to the Oscar race.
Moore, who was in first place in the Gold Derby odds, beat Mikey Madison (Anora), Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), and Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez).
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Still in first place in the Oscar odds, Moore dethroned Madison as the Oscar frontrunner following her Golden Globe victory and inspirational speech, and became the favorite to win SAG, a group that loves a narrative (see: past winners Glenn Close, Chadwick Boseman, and Lily Gladstone). She also collected the Critics Choice Award and numerous regional critics prizes in the past month — all non-industry awards — but when it was time for the industry to weigh in, BAFTA crowned Madison Best Actress last week. Anora has also shown to be strong with the industry, taking the Producers Guild, Directors Guild, and Writers Guild of America Awards, reestablishing itself as the Best Picture frontrunner.
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SAG, the final industry acting precursor, has aligned with the Oscars in Best Actress 21 times in the previous 30 years. It's mismatched three times in the last six years. SAG chose Close (The Wife), Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), and Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), while the Oscars anointed Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Frances McDormand (Nomadland), and Emma Stone (Poor Things), respectively. In all these cases, the Oscar winner also claimed BAFTA and was in the stronger film. Advantage Madison?
But there's also an X factor at the Oscars. Globe champ Fernanda Torres is in the lineup and the I'm Still Here star was not nominated at any other precursor. She also won her Globe in the drama category and thus has not faced off against any of her Oscar rivals — Erivo and Gascón are the others — anywhere.
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