SAG Awards 2025: Winners and highlights

With the Oscars fast approaching on March 3, all eyes were on the SAG Awards to show who the potential favourites for the golden statuettes are. Voted by over 122,000 performers with SAG-AFTRA membership, the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards is the largest voting body on the awards circuit and is characterised as being a “for actors, by actors” awards ceremony. 

Hosted by comedian and actress Kristen Bell, this year’s SAG Awards took place at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Whilst the usual award show frontrunners were present, several plot twists took the audience (and said actors) by surprise. 

The SAG Awards have always been used as a litmus test for Oscar winners. After all, individual SAG winners have often gone on to win at the prestigious awards ceremony. For the past three years, all four SAG winners won at the Oscars, with the exception of Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) in 2024, who lost out to Emma Stone (Poor Things) for best actress. 

Timothée Chalamet received the SAG’s lead actor prize having lost out in every major award show thus far to Academy-favourite Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. Chalamet is currently the youngest actor to win in this category at 29 years old for his transformative role as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. “I was not expecting this at all,” the actor started in his speech. “I’m in pursuit of greatness and I want to be one of the greats…I want to be up there,” he concluded. Will Clalamet continue to become the youngest Oscar winner for best actor too? We won’t count him out just yet.

Then there is the best picture race which has been difficult to gauge all season. At the Golden Globes, The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez won in the drama and musical or comedy category respectively. At the Critics Choice Awards, Anora took home the prize. Most recently, Conclave was the BAFTA Awards’ pick. 

Notably, the last three winners of the SAG Awards’ outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture—Coda, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Oppenheimer—went on to win best picture at the Oscars. This honour went to Conclave this year. While this may look like a good predictor, the SAG Awards have only managed to do this 15 out of 29 times historically. So, the race is still very much on and up in the air. 

Over in the TV category, another surprising win went to the cast of Only Murder in the Building for best ensemble in a comedy series. Selena Gomez did not hide her shock in her speech sharing, “We never win. This is so weird!” Only Murders had lost out in the last three years to the cast of Abbott Elementary, Ted Lasso, and The Bear.

Predictably, Shōgun has shown no signs of stopping as the political-action drama set in feudal Japan continues to sweep up awards. The series was the top winner of the night, taking home four awards, including outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series. 

Ahead, find the full list of winners for the SAG Awards 2025.

Motion Pictures

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

WINNER: Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig, Queer

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison, Anora

WINNER: Demi Moore, The Substance

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role

Jonathan Bailey, Wicked

Yura Borisov, Anora

WINNER: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl

Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson

Ariana Grande, Wicked

WINNER: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture

A Complete Unknown — Monica Barbaro, Norbert Leo Butz, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Dan Fogler, Will Harrison, Eriko Hatsune, Boyd Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Big Bill Morganfield, Edward Norton

Anora –Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison, Aleksey Serebryakov, Vache Tovmasyan

WINNER: Conclave – Sergio Castellitto, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci

Emilia Pérez –Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña

Wicked –Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

WINNER: The Fall Guy

Gladiator II

Wicked

Television Programs

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series

Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

WINNER: Colin Farrell, The Penguin

Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer

Kevin Kline, Disclaimer

Andrew Scott, Ripley

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series

Kathy Bates, The Great Lillian Hall

Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer

Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country

Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge

WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer

Cristin Milioti, The Penguin

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series

Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun

Jeff Bridges, The Old Man

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal

WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series

Kathy Bates, Matlock

Nicola Coughlan, Bridgerton

Allison Janney, The Diplomat

Keri Russell, The Diplomat

WINNER: Anna Sawai, Shōgun

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside

Harrison Ford, Shrinking

WINNER: Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series

Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

WINNER: Jean Smart, Hacks

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series

Bridgerton — Geraldine Alexander,Victor Alli, Adjoa Andoh, Julie Andrews, Lorraine Ashbourne, Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, Joe Barnes, Joanna Bobin, James Bryan, Harriet Cains, Bessie Carter, Genevieve Chenneour, Dominic Coleman, Nicola Coughlan, Kitty Devlin, Hannah Dodd, Daniel Francis, Ruth Gemmell, Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Sesley Hope, Florence Hunt, Martins Imhangbe, Molly Jackson-Shaw, Claudia Jessie, Lorn MacDonald, Jessica Madsen, Emma Naomi, Hannah New, Luke Newton, Caleb Obediah, James Phoon, Vineeta Rishi, Golda Rosheuvel, Hugh Sachs, Banita Sandhu, Luke Thompson, Will Tilston, Polly Walker, Anna Wilson-Jones, Sophie Woolley

The Day of the Jackal —Khalid Abdalla, Jon Arias, Nick Blood, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Ben Hall, Chukwudi Iwuji, Patrick Kennedy, Puchi Lagarde, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Eddie Redmayne, Sule Rimi, Lia Williams

The Diplomat — Ali Ahn, Sandy Amon-Schwartz, Tim Delap, Penny Downie, Ato Essandoh, David Gyasi, Celia Imrie, Rory Kinnear, Pearl Mackie, Nana Mensah, Graham Miller, Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Adam Silver, Kenichiro Thomson

WINNER: Shōgun —Shinnosuke Abe, Tadanobu Asano, Tommy Bastow, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi, Hiromoto Ida, Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroto Kanai, Yuki Kura, Takeshi Kurokawa, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai

Slow Horses —Ruth Bradley,Tom Brooke, James Callis, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Sean Gilder, Kadiff Kirwan, Jack Lowden, Gary Oldman, Jonathan Pryce, Saskia Reeves, Joanna Scanlan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Wirthner, Tom Wozniczka

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series

Abbott Elementary –Quinta Brunson, William Stanford Davis, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams

The Bear —Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott, Edwin Lee Gibson, Corey Hendrix, Matty Matheson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ricky Staffieri, Jeremy Allen White

Hacks — Rose Abdoo, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Paul W. Downs, Hannah Einbinder, Mark Indelicato, Jean Smart, Megan Stalter

WINNER: Only Murders in the Building — Michael Cyril Creighton, Zach Galifianakis, Selena Gomez, Richard Kind, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Steve Martin, Kumail Nanjiani, Molly Shannon, Martin Short

Shrinking —Harrison Ford, Brett Goldstein, Devin Kawaoka, Gavin Lewis, Wendie Malick, Lukita Maxwell, Ted McGinley, Christa Miller, Jason Segel, Rachel Stubington, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Jessica Williams

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series

The Boys

Fallout

House of the Dragon

The Penguin

WINNER: Shōgun

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