British stars land nominations for Screen Actors Guild Awards
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British stars Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig, Cynthia Erivo, and Jonathan Bailey have landed nominations in major acting categories for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The live nominations for the 31st annual awards, a bellwether for the Oscars, were due to be announced on Wednesday morning at a Netflix-streamed event hosted by actors Joey King and Cooper Koch.
However, the nominations were cancelled and instead unveiled in a press release and on the awards website due to the “wildfires and adverse wind conditions in Los Angeles”, a spokesperson said. Fiennes led those nominated for best male actor in a leading role following his portrayal as a conflicted priest overseeing a papal election in Conclave.
He will compete against James Bond star Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s romance Queer – where he plays an American living in 1950s Mexico who falls in love with a young student. The category includes Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, about a man imprisoned for a crime he did not commit who finds purpose by acting in a theatre group; Timothee Chalamet for his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown; and Adrien Brody – who won the Golden Globe for his portrayal of a Hungarian architect attempting to build a life in the US after the Second World War in The Brutalist.
Meanwhile, Erivo received a nomination for best actress in a leading role following her performance as Elphaba in the film adaptation of the hit Broadway and West End musical, Wicked. Among those named in the same category was US actress Demi Moore, whose role in The Substance confronts the harsh reality of aging in Hollywood, and who won her first Golden Globe award on Sunday.
