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The winners have been announced and for the second time this weekend, Birdman wins a a victory over Oscar frontrunner Boyhood in a not-unexpected win, but certainly a disappointing one for the cast of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Noteworthy here is that in the guild’s 21-year history, this marks only the sixth time that no film has won more than one award. The last time it happened was 2008. Before that, it happened in 2005, 2003, 1996 and 1994 (noteworthy that except for 1994 when there wasn’t a cast award, 50% of those victories didn’t see the cast award carry over to Best Picture). Historically, the SAG Cast winner is the weakest of the Best Picture predictors with only 9 of its winners taking the Oscar.

That doesn’t benefit Birdman much except in the fact that the surprise defeats of Saving Private Ryan in 1998 by Shakespeare in Love and Crash over Brokeback Mountain in 2005 were forecast first at SAG. Even the PGA went with the then-perceived frontrunners. Unfortunately, there’s another precedent that needs to be referenced. Little Miss Sunshine won both SAG and PGA back in 2006, but eventually lost to The Departed thanks to Sunshine‘s loss at the DGA. So now, we wait for the directors to have their say. If they also go for Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu for Best Director, another Oscar precedent may end up with a blemish.

Award Tallies

(1) Birdman, Boyhood, Still Alice, The Theory of Everything, Unbroken, Whiplash

The Awards

Best Cast

Birdman (RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas)

Best Actor

Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything (Tripp, RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas)

Best Actress

Julianne Moore – Still Alice (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Supporting Actor

J.K. Simmons – Whiplash (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Stunt Cast

Unbroken (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Screen Actors Guild Data

Year Founded: 1933
First Awards: 1994 (21)

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