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    Black Panther wins top prize at Actors Guild Awards

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorJanuary 28, 2019No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Chadwick Boseman and the Black Panther cast At the Actors Guild Awards
    Chadwick Boseman and the Black Panther cast At the Actors Guild Awards
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    Chadwick Boseman and the Black Panther cast At the Actors Guild Awards
    Chadwick Boseman and the Black Panther cast At the Actors Guild Awards

    Superhero blockbuster “Black Panther” on Sunday won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards — a major boost to its campaign for Oscars glory next month.

    The film won for best ensemble cast, besting musical romance “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians.”

    Chadwick Boseman, who played the title role in what was the top-grossing film in North America in 2018, explained the film’s significance alongside his co-stars, nearly all of them black.

    “We all know what it’s like to be told that there is not a place for you to be featured, yet you are young, gifted and black,” Boseman told the audience at the Shrine Auditorium.

    “We knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world — that we could be full human beings in the roles that we were playing, that we could create a world that exemplified a world we wanted to see.”

    “Black Panther” also won for best stunt ensemble.

    This year, the SAG Awards come at a key point in the race to next month’s Academy Awards — just after the Oscars nominations, and well before voting for the winners begins.

    The Screen Actors Guild accounts for a major percentage of the 8,000-odd Oscar voters, so the SAG winners will earn a lot of awards season momentum.

    Despite four nominations, “A Star Is Born” — the latest iteration of the classic Tinseltown story of an aging star and the ingenue he discovers — went home empty-handed.

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    One major absentee at the 25th edition of the SAG Awards was Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” — the top Oscar nomination getter was left out of SAG contention.

    While SAG-winning casts have only gone on to win a best picture Oscar about half the time, the awards are better at predicting best actor winners (79 percent) and best actress (75 percent).

    Glenn Close solidified her frontrunner status in the race for the best actress Oscar with a win for her searing work in “The Wife.”

    So far this awards season, she has also won a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice Award.

    For best actor, Rami Malek’s star-making turn as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody” was rewarded — over Christian Bale’s work in another biopic, as former US vice president Dick Cheney in “Vice.”

    “I just never in my wildest dreams thought I could be in a category with these men,” said Malek, who also won a Golden Globe for the role and is nominated for an Oscar.

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