The SAG Awards, which take place in LA on Sunday night, are certainly one of the starriest events in awards season. Saoirse Ronan, a genuine Oscar competitor this year for her role in Greta Gerwig’s lovely Lady Bird, is nominated for the SAG award for the best female actor in a motion picture. If Ronan has even glanced at the form guide she will know that, since 2011, every winner of the award has gone on to win the Oscar for best actress. In 2011 itself, Viola Davis, SAG winner for The Help, lost out at the noisier ceremony to Meryl Streep for her role in The Iron Lady. No film has won best picture at the Oscars without a nomination here since Braveheart in 1995.

Source: The Irish Times January 21, 2018 06:00 UTC