Screen Actors Guild Awards 2026: Huge snubs as Oscar favourites shut out of nominations

The Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced overnight, and the mixed-bag list is generating a lot of chatter and consternation.

The awards, which have been renamed the Actor Awards, didn’t nominate any non-English language films or performances. The shut-out is notable because this year’s crop of contenders has a particularly strong contingent of international films that are expected to do well across this awards season.

Films including Sentimental Value from Finland and its stars Stellan Skarsgard, Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, No Other Choice from South Korea and its lead Lee Byung-hun, and The Secret Agent from Brazil and its star Wagner Moura, are all considered great chances for Oscar nominations.

Sentimental Value has been a favourite since it was runner-up at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

It stands in contrast to the Golden Globes nominations, which are to be awarded next week, where non-English language films and performances did very well. Of the 10 movies nominated across its two best film categories, half are international films.

Last year, SAG nominated the Mexico-set, Spanish-language film Emilia Perez for three awards while in 2020, the South Korean hit Parasite won the ensemble award.

Instead, this year, all the nominees hail from the US and other English-speaking territories, including Ireland, the UK and Australia.

Australians Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi were both nominated for their films, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Frankenstein, respectively, while Sarah Snook was nominated in a TV category.

Frankenstein was also nominated for an ensemble cast award, even though the film’s performances aren’t considered to be the Guillermo del Toro movie’s strong point.

One Battle After Another is the leading contender with a record-breaking seven nominations, collecting nods for its ensemble cast, individual actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn, and its stunt team.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners also did better than expected, picking up not just nominations for Michael B. Jordan and the ensemble, but also for actors Wunmi Mosaku and Miles Caton.

Bugonia and its stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons were also something of a surprise inclusion. The heat has largely fallen off that film since awards season started.

The SAGs are voted on by the 160,000 members of its union but the nominations are determined by a 25,000-strong committee.

The SAGs are something of a bellwether for the Oscars because there are more actors among the Academy’s 10,000 Oscar-voting members than any other segment. But the Oscars body has a higher proportion of international voters than SAGs.

The SAGs ceremony will be on March 2.

CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

Jesse Plemons, Bugonia

FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Jessie Buckle, Hamnet

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

Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue

Chase Infinit, One Battle After Another

Emma Stone, Bugonia

MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Miles Caton, Sinners

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Paul Mescal, Hamnet

Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme

Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good

Amy Madigan, Weapons

Wunmi Mosaku, Sunners

Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

F1

Frankenstein

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

One Battle After Another

Sinners

ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES

The Diplomat

Landman

The Pitt

Severance

The White Lotus

ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Hacks

Only Murders in the Building

The Studio

MALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise

Billy Crudup, Morning Wars

Walton Goggins, The White Lotus

Gary Oldman, Slow Horses

Noah Wyle, The Pitt

FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Britt Lower, Severance

Parker Posey, The White Lotus

Keri Russell, The Diplomat

Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus

Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus

MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Ike Barinholtz, The Studio

Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside

Seth Rogen, The Studio

Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Kathryn Hahn, The Studio

Catherine O’Hara, The Studio

Jenna Ortega, Wednesday

Jean Smart, Hacks

Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale

MALE ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit

Owen Cooper, Adolescence

Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Charlie Hunnam, Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Matthew Rhys, The Beast in Me

FEMALE ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

Claire Danes, The Beast in Me

Erin Doherty, Adolescence

Sarah Snook, All Her Fault

Christine Tremarco, Adolescence

Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex

STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A TV SERIES

Andor

Landman

The Last of Us

Squid Game

Stranger Things