Eddie Redmayne Dedicates SAG Award Win to People Living With ALS
Actor recognizes Bradley Cooper for his performance in ”American Sniper“ — twice — while Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor winner Julianne Moore recalls her soap opera days
“Theory of Everything” star Eddie Redmayne recognized people suffering from ALS, and Bradley Cooper — twice — when accepting the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.
“This has been such an extraordinary year for performances, to be included in this number of Michael, Ben, Jake, Steve, but beyond that to Bradley Cooper to David Oyelowo to Bradley Cooper – oh, I said Bradley Cooper,” Redmayne said on Sunday night. “To be included in this group is a great privilege to me, these are all actors I have long admired.”
Redmayne beat out Steve Carell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Keaton to claim the award. His victory follows a Golden Globes win and an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with ALS as a young man.
“I would like to dedicate this award, this very wonderful skinny man, to those people around the world living with ALS, to those who have lost their lives to this brutal disease,” Redmayne continued. “In preparing to play Stephen I met a lot of people with ALS, and I met their families fighting along side them, and the courage and the bravery and the triumph of spirit blew my mind.”
Julianne Moore capped off a predictable evening of winners when she won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for “Still Alice,” a drama about a renowned linguistics professor whose vocabulary begins to suffer when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Like Redmayne, as well as SAG Award winners J.K. Simmons and Patricia Arquette, Moore has already won a Golden Globe for her performance, and was nominated for an Oscar this year.
“When I was on ‘As the World Turns,’ I was so excited when they wrote two parts for me — the classic twin sister role, the good and the evil one. And then I realized it was super boring to act by myself,” Moore said during her unusual acceptance speech. “What I really loved and what I really craved was being with another actor and feeling that intimacy, and that excitement and thrill and getting to know someone in that way, that’s what brings me back to acting again and again.”
SAG Awards 2015: Red Carpet Arrivals (Photos)
Justin Theroux ("The Leftovers") and Jennifer Aniston ("Cake")
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Matthew McConaughey ("True Detective") with wife Camila Alves
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Game of Thrones")
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Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave")
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Claire Danes ("Homeland")
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Meryl Streep ("Into the Woods")
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Paula Patton ("About Last Night")
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Julianne Moore ("Still Alice")
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Julia Roberts ("The Normal Heart")
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Emmy Rossum ("Shameless")
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Reese Witherspoon ("Wild)
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Joanne Froggat ("Downton Abbey")
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Steve Carell ("Foxcatcher") with wife Nancy Carell
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Sarah Paulson ("American Horror Story"), Pedro Pascal ("Game of Thrones") and Amanda Peet ("Togetherness")
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Amy Poehler ("Parks and Recreation")
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Viola Davis ("How to Get Away with Murder")
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Natalie Dormer ("Game of Thrones")
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Keira Knightley ("The Imitation Game")
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Gwendoline Christie ("Game of Thrones")
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"Modern Family" stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Bowen
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Kit Harrington ("Game of Thrones")
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J.K. Simmons ("Whiplash") and Kevin Costner ("Black or White")
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Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie")
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Laverne Cox ("Orange Is the New Black")
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Kevin Costner ("Black or White") with wife Christine Baumgartner
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Veep")
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Uzo Aduba ("Orange Is the New Black")
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Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife")
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Michael Kenneth Williams ("Boardwalk Empire")
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"Game of Thrones" stars Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner
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Chelsea Peretti ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") and Jordan Peele ("Key and Peele")
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Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family")
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Gretchen Mol ("Boardwalk Empire")
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Eddie Redmayne ("Theory of Everything")
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Ellar Coltrane ("Boyhood")
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Naomi Watts ("Birdman") and Liev Schreiber ("Ray Donovan")
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Joe Manganiello ("True Blood") and Sophia Vergara ("Modern Family")
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Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher ("Star Wars")
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Rosamund Pike ("Gone Girl")
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Sophia Bush ("Chicago P.D.")
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Joan Collins
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"Boyhood" stars Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater and Ellar Coltrane
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Justin Theroux ("The Leftovers") and Jennifer Aniston ("Cake")