SAG Awards Crown ‘Parasite,’ Give the Oscar Race a Shot of Uncertainty
With “1917” winning the Producers Guild Award on Saturday night, we might be looking at a year in which the two leading Oscar contenders don’t have a single acting nomination between them
More than most years, the film races at Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards were all about the SAG Ensemble Award that was won by “Parasite,” giving yet another awards-season boost to the twisted Korean-language film.
The big takeaway from the show was that actors love Bong Joon Ho’s movie even if they don’t know the names of the actors — so much so that the movie can win the ensemble award without getting a single individual acting nomination.
And now the question that will hang in the air for the next three weeks is a related one: Can a movie that isn’t in English and didn’t get a single Oscar nomination for acting be popular enough with the Academy’s huge Actors Branch to actually win Best Picture?
We don’t know the answer.