Screen Actors Guild Awards 2026 full list: Michael B. Jordan and Sinners winners in chaotic awards season

There is nothing more boring than a predictable awards season when every lead-up to the Oscars go to the same person.

This is not that year.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, renamed the Actor Awards, has upended the Oscars race by giving its Best Actor honours to Michael B. Jordan over frontrunner Timothee Chalamet.

Jordan won for his dual role as twins Smoke and Stack in Sinners, which also won the top prize of Best Ensemble Cast and is a strong contender at the Oscars in two weeks’ time.

Chalamet was thought to have the edge given the SAG voting body consists of 160,000 working actors and skews younger than the exclusive Academy membership. SAG is also the union representing social media influencers and YouTube personalities, who are eligible to vote.

Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley added another trophy to her collection for her performance, while Weapons’ Amy Madigan and One Battle After Another’s Sean Penn won the supporting categories.

The Actor Awards was the last significant ceremony before the Oscars and is often perceived as a reliable bellwether of what might happen at the Academy Awards, but it only threw up more questions.

Buckley firmed up her frontrunner status, but she is the only constant in a year where the other Oscars acting races keep moving around.

Jordan’s win here puts a dent in the narrative that Chalamet is still the frontrunner. Chalamet, for his performance in Marty Supreme, took the Critics’ Choice and Golden Globes, but neither of those two awards have a crossover voting body with the Oscars.

The BAFTAS, which does, opted for a British winner, Robert Aramayo for I Swear, who is not nominated at the Oscars. Chalamet is also facing stiff competition from Wagner Moura, the Brazilian star of The Secret Agent, and have yet to face off against each other in a significant ceremony (at the Globes, they were nominated in different categories).

Penn’s win in supporting actor here at the Actor Awards and at the BAFTAs also bolts him as a leading a contender at the Oscars, but it’s only in this past week that Penn was considered a potential winner at all. It had been assumed the frontrunner would be Sentimental Value’s Stellan Skarsgard, who is not nominated at the Actors.

In the supporting actress race, Actor going with Madigan also doesn’t clear anything up because while she had previously won the Critic’s Choice gong, Sinners’ Wunmi Mosaku won at BAFTAs and One Battle After Another’s Teyana Taylor won at the Globes.

Sinners’ ensemble cast win gives it a push for the Oscar best picture, but One Battle After Another won the Producers Guild Award yesterday, and the PGA is considered the most reliable predictor in part because it also uses the same preferential balloting system as the Oscars does for its biggest award.

Australia’s two representatives in the film categories, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein, both lost.

On the TV side, Sarah Snook lost her category to Michelle Williams but Shabana Azeez, as part of the cast of The Pitt, won an Actor for Ensemble Cast in a TV Drama. Dichen Lachman was also nominated as part of the ensemble cast of Severance.

The Studio had a great night, picking up the Ensemble Cast in a TV Comedy gong, while Seth Rogen and the late Catherine O’Hara won in their individual acting races.

Rogen accepted the posthumous honour for O’Hara, who died at the end of January. He shared with the audience, “I have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her, working with her.

“Something that I’ve just been marvelling at over the last few weeks was her ability to be generous and kind and gracious while never, ever minimising her own talent. And her ability to contribute to the work that we were doing.

“She knew she could destroy, and she wanted to destroy every day on set. I haven’t said this to the other actors because I didn’t want them to get ideas, but pretty every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email me and Evan an email that was always pretty similar and it said, ‘Hello, I hope you’ll consider the following’, and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene.

“She was right literally 100 per cent of the time. It made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. She really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other.”

Michelle Williams was a surprise winner as Best Actress in a Limited Series for her miniseries Dying for Sex. It was a rare non-Adolescence victory in a TV awards season that has seen the British drama take home every award it was up for. Adolescence’s Owen Cooper was victorious in the male category.

Keri Russell won for Best Actress in a TV Drama for her work in The Diplomat and wished her partner, Welshman Matthew Rhys a happy St David’s Day. Noah Wyle won the Best Actor in a TV Drama gong for The Pitt.

Harrison Ford was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to him by friend Woody Harrelson, who was characteristically loose but charming.

Ford was visibly emotional as he accepted the honour but still injected his speech with wry humour.

“I feel incredibly grateful for this kind attention, But to be clear, I am quite humbled. I’m in a room of actors, many of whom are here because they’ve been nominated to receive a prize for their amazing work. Well, I’m here to receive a prize for being alive.

“That said, it’s a little weird to be getting a lifetime achievement award, at the half point of my career. I’m still a working actor.”

He shared how he came to his vocation, “In my third year of college, I was a little lost. I was failing at school, I felt isolated, and then I found a company of people putting on plays, storytellers. People I once thought were misfits and geeks turned out to be my people.

“I found a calling, a life in storytelling, an identity in pretending to be other people.

“Ours is a tough business to get into. In my case, it’s been a tough business to get out of, thank god. Because I love what I do. As actors, we get to live many lives. We get to explore ideas that affirm and elevate our shared experience. The stories we tell have a unique capacity to create moments of emotional connection, they bring us together.

“Sometimes we make entertainment, sometimes we make art. Sometimes, we’re lucky enough to make them both at the same time. If we’re really fortunate, we also get to make a living.

“Success in this business brings a certain freedom that comes with responsibility to support each other, to keep the door open for the next kid. The next lost boy who is looking for a place to belong. I’m indeed a lucky guy to have found my people. Lucky to have work that challenges me.”

It was a crowd-pleasing ceremony that relied heavily on montages and clip packages that showcased not just the work of this year’s nominees but also the history of the business. The In Memoriam segment paid tribute to heavy hitters including Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Diane Keaton, Rob Reiner, Val Kilmer, Robert Duvall and Diane Ladd.

The Actor Awards mostly stayed away from politics, except for an occasional “ICE OUT” pin, which was seen on presenter Samuel L. Jackson’s lapel, and oblique references to the military conflict between Iran and the US and Israel.

Host Kristen Bell flagged at the start of the ceremony, “I think the world can use some levity right now, so we’re going to keep things fun tonight”.

SAG president, actor Sean Astin, later added, “Understanding that our program is being live streamed live around the world, I want to make a moment to acknowledgment what’s happening in the news. On behalf of our community, offer a sincere prayer for peace.”

FILM

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners - WINNER

BEST ACTOR

Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Michael B. Jordan, Sinners - WINNER

Jesse Plemons, Bugonia

BEST ACTRESS

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet - WINNER

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue

Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

Emma Stone, Bugonia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Miles Caton, Sinners

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Paul Mescal, Hamnet

Sean Penn, One Battle After Another - WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme

Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good

Amy Madigan, Weapons - WINNER

Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners

Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

BEST FILM STUNT ENSEMBLE

F1

Frankenstein

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning - WINNER

One Battle After Another

Sinners

TV

BEST DRAMA SERIES ENSEMBLE

The Diplomat

Landman

The Pitt - WINNER

Severance

The White Lotus

BEST COMEDY SERIES ENSEMBLE

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

Only Murders in the Building

The Studio - WINNER

BEST DRAMA ACTOR

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise

Billy Crudup, The Morning Show

Walton Goggins, The White Lotus

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Noah Wyle, The Pitt - WINNER

BEST DRAMA ACTRESS

Britt Lower, Severance

Parker Posey, The White Lotus

Keri Russell, The Diplomat - WINNER

Rhea Seahorn, Pluribus

Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus

BEST COMEDY ACTOR

Ike Barinholtz, The Studio

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson, Inside Man

Seth Rogen, The Studio - WINNER

Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

BEST COMEDY ACTRESS

Kathryn Hahn, The Studio

Catherine O’Hara, The Studio - WINNER

Jenna Ortega, Wednesday

Jean Smart, Hacks

Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale

BEST LIMITED SERIES ACTOR

Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit

Owen Cooper, Adolescence - WINNER

Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Charlie Hunnam, Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Matthew Rhys, The Beast in Me

BEST LIMITED SERIES ACTRESS

Claire Danes, The Beast in Me

Erin Doherty, Adolescence

Sarah Snook, All Her Fault

Christine Tremarco, Adolescence

Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex - WINNER

BEST TV STUNT ENSEMBLE

Andor

Landman

The Last of Us - WINNER

Squid Game

Stranger Things