Brendan Fraser was overcome with emotion as he received the Screen Actors Guild Award for his efficiency in The Whale.
Fraser beat frontrunner Austin Butler to assert the prize, and gave a rousing, misty-eyed speech during which he referenced his tumultuous profession and comeback.
Fraser took the stage and stated he understood what his onscreen character Charlie was going by way of.
“He’s someone who is on a raft of regret but he’s in a sea of hope,” Fraser stated. “I’ve been in that sea and I’ve rode that wave lately and it’s been powerful and good, and I’ve also had that wave smash me right down to the ocean floor and drag my face along there and wind up on some strange beach in a different world and wondering where am I now.
“I want you to know for real, to those actors who have gone through that or are going through that, I know how you feel but believe me if you just stay in there and you put one foot in front of the other, you’ll get to where you need to go. Have courage.”
The Canadian-American actor goes by way of a profession renaissance after a collection of setbacks together with accidents from stunt work, an alleged sexual assault by the hands of Philip Berk, the previous president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Mr Berk denied the accusation), and melancholy.
Fraser’s function The Whale, directed by Aronofsky, has elevated his standing and received him a slew of awards from critics’ circles and movie festivals. He can be nominated for the Oscar.
Fraser wasn’t the one one to evoke the viewers with a well-liked win. The solid of Everything Everywhere All At Once claimed 4 out of the 5 televised movie classes, together with Michelle Yeoh for Lead Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis for Supporting Actress and Ke Huy Quan for Supporting Actor.
The movie additionally received the highest award, the Cast in a Motion Picture class.
Both Yeoh and Quan acknowledged the importance of their victories past their private triumph, as a marker of display screen illustration for actors of Asian heritage.
Quan, who was a toddler actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, stated, “[This moment] belongs to everyone who has asked for change. When I stepped away from acting, it’s because there were so few opportunities.
“The landscape looks so different now than before. So thank you so much all of you in this room and everyone who contributed to these changes.
“To all those at home that are watching, that are struggling and waiting to be seen, please keep on going because the spotlight will one day find you.”
At one level, Yeoh was so emotionally affected by the second that she turned away from the microphone and the viewers and swore, “sh*t” and “f**k”. The crowd responded with laughter.
She closed out with, “This is not just for me, this is for every little girl that looks like me.
“Thank you for giving me a seat at the table because so many of us need this – we want to be seen, we want to be heard. And tonight you have shown us that it is possible. And I am grateful and my mum will be eternally grateful to you.”
Curtis received the gang over as nicely however for various causes. A well-liked determine within the trade, Everything Everywhere All At Once is the primary time in Curtis’s 46-year profession that she has been correctly recognised on the awards circuit for a solo efficiency.
She paid tributes to her mother and father, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and even made a joke about being a nepo child.
“I’m wearing the wedding ring my father gave my mother. They hated each other by the way, at the end of it. But my sister Kelly and I were born from love. My father was from Hungary and my mother was from Denmark and they became these monstrous stars in this industry they love so much,” she stated.
“My parents were actors and I married an actor, I love actors, I love acting, I love the job we get to do, I love being part of a crew, I love being a part of a cast, I love what we do with each other. It’s such a beautiful job.
I know that so many people in our industry who are actors and don’t get to do this job and you look at nights like this and think, is it ever going to be possible for me? I know you look at me and go, ‘Well, nepo baby, that’s why she’s there and I totally get it’. But the truth of the matter is I’m 64 years old and this is amazing.”
Earlier within the night, throughout the introduction package deal, Curtis made one other nepo child joke when she recalled how her first performing job was on a TV collection referred to as Operation Petticoat, which was primarily based on a film her father had been in.
Curtis additionally referred to as out Yeoh in her acceptance speech and revealed that she took the Everything Everywhere All At Once function as a result of she knew she would get to behave reverse Yeoh.
When the solid was onstage for the Cast award, actor James Hong, 94, recalled getting his begin on the 1955 Clark Gable film Soldier of Fortune.
“Back in those days, I have to tell you this, the leading roles [of Asian characters] were played by [white actors] with their eyes taped up. And the producer said that Asians were not good enough, and they are not box office. But, look at us now!”
The Screen Actors Guild Awards are voted on by greater than 100,000 members of American actors’ union.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, a unusual American sci-fi household drama, is now the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, the place it’s nominated for 11 awards.
It has received the highest prize trifecta of precursor and predictive awards of the Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild and Producers Guild.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Everything Everywhere All At Once is simply the tenth film to win all three high honours, and solely one in every of them – Apollo 13 – didn’t go on to win the Best Picture Oscar.
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
– Babylon
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– Everything Everywhere All At Once – Winner
– The Fabelmans
– Women Talking
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
– Ana de Armas, Blonde
– Cate Blanchett, Tár
– Viola Davis, The Woman King
– Danielle Deadwyler, Till
– Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once – Winner
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
– Austin Butler, Elvis
– Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Brendan Fraser, The Whale – Winner
– Bill Nighy, Living
– Adam Sandler, Hustle
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
– Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
– Hong Chau, The Whale
– Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once – Winner
– Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
– Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
– Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
– Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once – Winner
– Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
– Better Call Saul
– The Crown
– Ozark
– Severance
– The White Lotus – Winner
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
– Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus – Winner
– Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
– Julia Garner, Ozark
– Laura Linney, Ozark
– Zendaya, Euphoria
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in A Drama Series
– Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
– Jason Bateman, Ozark – Winner
– Jeff Bridges, The Old Man
– Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
– Adam Scott, Severance
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
– Abbott Elementary – Winner
– Barry
– The Bear
– Hacks
– Only Murders In the Building
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
– Christina Applegate, Dead To Me
– Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
– Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
– Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
– Jean Smart, Hacks – Winner
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
– Anthony Carrigan, Barry
– Bill Hader, Barry
– Steve Martin, Only Murders In the Building
– Martin Short, Only Murders In the Building
– Jeremy Allen White, The Bear – Winner
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
– Emily Blunt, The English
– Jessica Chastain, George & Tammy – Winner
– Julia Garner, Inventing Ana
– Niecy Nash-Betts, Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
– Amanda Seyfried: The Dropout
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
– Steve Carell, The Patient
– Taron Egerton, Black Bird
– Sam Elliott, 1883 – Winner
– Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird
– Evan Peters, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
– Top Gun: Maverick – Winner
– Avatar: The Way of the Water
– The Batman
– Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
– The Woman King
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
– Stranger Things – Winner
– Andor
– The Boys
– House of the Dragon
– The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power
Originally printed as SAG Awards 2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Brendan Fraser take residence high awards
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
