The (Screen Actors Guild Awards ) Sag Awards 2025 have been unveiled, and it’s time to celebrate the creme de la creme of the entertainment world. This year’s nominations are filled with exceptional talent, dazzling performances, and a few surprises.
However, let’s add an energy of suspicion and a pinch of reality-check to this list:
Leading Role Nominees: Male and Female ( SAG Awards 2025 )
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Adrien Brody (László Tóth in “The Brutalist”)
- Timothée Chalamet (Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown”)
- Daniel Craig (William Lee in “Queer”)
- Colman Domingo (Divine G in “Sing Sing”)
- Ralph Fiennes (Lawrence in “Conclave”)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Pamela Anderson (Shelly in “The Last Showgirl”) – This nomination seems a bit far-fetched, doesn’t it?
- Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba in “Wicked”)
- Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia/Manitas in “Emilia Pérez”)
- Mikey Madison (Ani in “Anora”)
- Demi Moore (Elisabeth in “The Substance”)
Supporting Role Highlights
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Jonathan Bailey (Fiyero in “Wicked”)
- Yura Borisov (Igor in “Anora”)
- Kieran Culkin (Benji Kaplan in “A Real Pain”)
- Edward Norton (Pete Seeger in “A Complete Unknown”)
- Jeremy Strong (Roy Cohn in “The Apprentice”)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown”)
- Jamie Lee Curtis (Annette in “The Last Showgirl”)
- Danielle Deadwyler (Berniece in “The Piano Lesson”)
- Ariana Grande (Galinda/Glinda in “Wicked”) – Ariana Grande in a serious dramatic role? Really?
- Zoe Saldaña (Rita in “Emilia Pérez”)
Ensemble Cast Excellence
Cast in a Motion Picture
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
- Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez)
- Norbert Leo Butz (Alan Lomax)
- Timothée Chalamet (Bob Dylan)
- Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo)
- Dan Fogler (Albert Grossman)
- Will Harrison (Bobby Neuwirth)
- Eriko Hatsune (Toshi Seeger)
- Boyd Holbrook (Johnny Cash)
- Scoot McNairy (Woody Guthrie)
- Big Bill Morganfield (Jesse Moffette)
- Edward Norton (Pete Seeger)
ANORA
- Yura Borisov (Igor)
- Mark Eydelshteyn (Ivan)
- Karren Karagulian (Toros)
- Mikey Madison (Ani)
- Aleksey Serebryakov (Nikolai Zakharov)
- Vache Tovmasyan (Garnick)
CONCLAVE
- Sergio Castellitto (Tedesco)
- Ralph Fiennes (Lawrence)
- John Lithgow (Tremblay)
- Lucian Msamati (Adeyemi)
- Isabella Rossellini (Sister Agnes)
- Stanley Tucci (Bellini)
EMILIA PÉREZ
- Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia/Manitas)
- Selena Gomez (Jessi)
- Adriana Paz (Epifania)
- Zoe Saldaña (Rita)
WICKED
- Jonathan Bailey (Fiyero)
- Marissa Bode (Nessarose)
- Peter Dinklage (Dr. Dillamond)
- Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba)
- Jeff Goldblum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
- Ariana Grande (Galinda/Glinda)
- Ethan Slater (Boq)
- Bowen Yang (Pfannee)
- Michelle Yeoh (Madame Morrible)
Cast in a Drama Series
BRIDGERTON
- Geraldine Alexander (Mrs. Wilson)
- Victor Alli (John Stirling)
- Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury)
- Julie Andrews (Lady Whistledown)
- Lorraine Ashbourne (Mrs. Varley)
- Simone Ashley (Kate Bridgerton)
- Jonathan Bailey (Anthony Bridgerton)
- Joe Barnes (Lord Wilding)
- Joanna Bobin (Lady Cowper)
- James Bryan (Nicky Mondrich)
- Harriet Cains (Philipa Featherington)
- Bessie Carter (Prudence Featherington)
- Genevieve Chenneour (Miss Livingston)
- Dominic Coleman (Lord Cowper)
- Nicola Coughlan (Penelope Featherington)
- Kitty Devlin (Miss Stowell)
- Hannah Dodd (Francesca Bridgerton)
- Daniel Francis (Lord Marcus Anderson)
- Ruth Gemmell (Violet Bridgerton)
- Rosa Hesmondhalgh (Rae)
- Sesley Hope (Miss Kenworthy)
- Florence Hunt (Hyacinth Bridgerton)
- Martins Imhangbe (Will Mondrich)
- Molly Jackson-Shaw (Miss Hartigan)
- Claudia Jessie (Eloise Bridgerton)
- Lorn Macdonald (Albion Finch)
- Jessica Madsen (Cressida Cowper)
- Emma Naomi (Alice Mondrich)
- Hannah New (Lady Tilley Arnold)
- Luke Newton (Colin Bridgerton)
- Caleb Obediah (Lord Cho)
- James Phoon (Harry Dankworth)
- Vineeta Rishi (Lady Malhotra)
- Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte)
- Hugh Sachs (Brimsley)
- Banita Sandhu (Miss Malhotra)
- Luke Thompson (Benedict Bridgerton)
- Will Tilston (Gregory Bridgerton)
- Polly Walker (Lady Featherington)
- Anna Wilson-Jones (Lady Livingston)
- Sophie Woolley (Lady Stowell)
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
- Khalid Abdalla (Ulle Dag Charles)
- Jon Arias (Álvaro)
- Nick Blood (Vince Pyne)
- Úrsula Corberó (Nuria)
- Charles Dance (Timothy Winthrop)
- Ben Hall (Damian Richardson)
- Chukwudi Iwuji (Osita Halcrow)
- Patrick Kennedy (Teddy)
- Puchi Lagarde (Marisa)
- Lashana Lynch (Bianca Pullman)
- Eleanor Matsuura (Zina Jansone)
- Jonjo O’Neill (Edward Carver)
- Eddie Redmayne (The Jackal)
- Sule Rimi (Paul Pullman)
- Lia Williams (Isabel Kirby)
THE DIPLOMAT
- Ali Ahn (Eidra Park)
- Sandy Amon-Schwartz (Sandy)
- Tim Delap (Byron)
- Penny Downie (Frances Munning)
- Ato Essandoh (Stuart Hayford)
- David Gyasi (Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison)
- Celia Imrie (Margaret Roylin)
- Rory Kinnear (Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge)
- Pearl Mackie (Alysse)
- Nana Mensah (Billie Appiah)
- Graham Miller (Neil Barrow)
- Keri Russell (Kate Wyler)
- Rufus Sewell (Hal Wyler)
- Adam Silver (Howard)
- Kenichiro Thomson (Martin)
SHŌGUN
- Shinnosuke Abe (Buntaro)
- Tadanobu Asano (Kashigi Yabushige)
- Tommy Bastow (Father Martin Alvito)
- Takehiro Hira (Ishido Kazunari)
- Moeka Hoshi (Usami Fuji)
- Hiromoto Ida (Lord Kiyama)
- Cosmo Jarvis (John Blackthorne)
- Hiroto Kanai (Kashigi Omi)
- Yuki Kura (Yoshii Nagakado)
- Takeshi Kurokawa (Lord Ohno)
- Fumi Nikaido (Ochiba No Kata)
- Tokuma Nishioka (Toda Hiromatsu)
- Hiroyuki Sanada (Yoshii Toranaga)
- Anna Sawai (Toda Mariko)
SLOW HORSES
- Ruth Bradley (Emma Flyte)
- Tom Brooke (JK Coe)
- James Callis (Claude Whelan)
- Christopher Chung (Roddy Ho)
- Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Shirley Dander)
- Rosalind Eleazar (Louisa Guy)
- Sean Gilder (Sam Chapman)
- Kadiff Kirwan (Marcus Longridge)
- Jack Lowden (River Cartwright)
- Gary Oldman (Jackson Lamb)
- Jonathan Pryce (David Cartwright)
- Saskia Reeves (Catherine Standish)
- Joanna Scanlan (Moira Tregorian)
- Kristin Scott Thomas (Diana Taverner)
- Hugo Weaving (Frank Harkness)
- Naomi Wirthner (Molly Doran)
- Tom Wozniczka (Patrice)
In a Comedy Series
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
- Quinta Brunson (Janine Teagues)
- William Stanford Davis (Mr. Johnson)
- Janelle James (Ava Coleman)
- Chris Perfetti (Jacob Hill)
- Sheryl Lee Ralph (Barbara Howard)
- Lisa Ann Walter (Melissa Schemmenti)
- Tyler James Williams (Gregory Eddie)
THE BEAR
- Lionel Boyce (Marcus)
- Liza Colón-Zayas (Tina)
- Ayo Edebiri (Sydney Adamu)
- Abby Elliott (Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto)
- Edwin Lee Gibson (Ebraheim)
- Corey Hendrix (Sweeps)
- Matty Matheson (Neil Fak)
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richard “Richie” Jerimovich)
- Ricky Staffieri (Theodore Fak)
- Jeremy Allen White (Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto)
HACKS
- Rose Abdoo (Josefina)
- Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Marcus Vaughan)
- Paul W. Downs (Jimmy Lusaque, Jr.)
- Hannah Einbinder (Ava Daniels)
- Mark Indelicato (Damien)
- Jean Smart (Deborah Vance)
- Megan Stalter (Kayla Schaeffer)
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
- Michael Cyril Creighton (Howard Morris)
- Zach Galifianakis (Zach Galifianakis)
- Selena Gomez (Mabel Mora)
- Richard Kind (Vince Fish)
- Eugene Levy (Eugene Levy)
- Eva Longoria (Eva Longoria)
- Steve Martin (Charles-Haden Savage)
- Kumail Nanjiani (Rudy Thurber)
- Molly Shannon (Bev Melon)
- Martin Short (Oliver Putnam)
SHRINKING
- Harrison Ford (Paul)
- Brett Goldstein (Louis)
- Devin Kawaoka (Charlie)
- Gavin Lewis (Connor)
- Wendie Malick (Dr. Julie Baram)
- Lukita Maxwell (Alice)
- Ted McGinley (Derek)
- Christa Miller (Liz)
- Jason Segel (Jimmy)
- Rachel Stubington (Summer)
- Luke Tennie (Sean)
- Michael Urie (Brian)
- Jessica Williams (Gaby)
Outstanding TV Series Performances
Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Javier Bardem (Jose Menendez in “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”)
- Colin Farrell (Oz Cobb in “The Penguin”)
- Richard Gadd (Donny in “Baby Reindeer”)
- Kevin Kline (Stephen Brigstocke in “Disclaimer”)
- Andrew Scott (Tom Ripley in “Ripley”)
Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
- Kathy Bates (Edith Wilson in “The Great Lillian Hall”)
- Cate Blanchett (Catherine Ravenscroft in “Disclaimer”)
- Jodie Foster (Det. Elizabeth Danvers in “True Detective: Night Country”)
- Lily Gladstone (Cam Bentland in “Under the Bridge”)
- Jessica Gunning (Martha in “Baby Reindeer”)
- Cristin Milioti (Sofia Falcone in “The Penguin”)
Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Tadanobu Asano (Kashigi Yabushige in “Shōgun”)
- Jeff Bridges (Dan Chase in “The Old Man”)
- Gary Oldman (Jackson Lamb in “Slow Horses”)
- Eddie Redmayne (The Jackal in “The Day of the Jackal”)
- Hiroyuki Sanada (Yoshii Toranaga in “Shōgun”)
Female Actor in a Drama Series
- Kathy Bates (Madeline Matlock in “Matlock”)
- Nicola Coughlan (Penelope Featherington in “Bridgerton”)
- Allison Janney (Vice President Grace Penn in “The Diplomat”)
- Keri Russell (Kate Wyler in “The Diplomat”)
- Anna Sawai (Toda Mariko in “Shōgun”)
Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- Adam Brody (Noah Roklov in “Nobody Wants This”)
- Ted Danson (Charles Nieuwendyk in “A Man on the Inside”)
- Harrison Ford (Paul in “Shrinking”)
- Martin Short (Oliver Putnam in “Only Murders in the Building”)
- Jeremy Allen White (Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto in “The Bear”)
Female Actor in a Comedy Series
- Kristen Bell (Joanne in “Nobody Wants This”)
- Quinta Brunson (Janine Teagues in “Abbott Elementary”)
- Liza Colón-Zayas (Tina in “The Bear”)
- Ayo Edebiri (Sydney Adamu in “The Bear”)
- Jean Smart (Deborah Vance in “Hacks”)
Stunt Ensembles Bringing the Action
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Dune: Part Two
- The Fall Guy
- Gladiator II
- Wicked
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
- The Boys
- Fallout
- House of the Dragon
- The Penguin
- Shōgun
Alright, folks! The big night is fast approaching, and you absolutely do not want to miss this year’s SAG Awards 2025. Trust me, it’s going to be spectacular!
When to Watch SAG Awards 2025
- Date: Sunday, February 23, 2025
- Time: 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT
Where to Watch SAG Awards 2025
- Live on Netflix
Yes, you read that right—Netflix is bringing all the glitz and glamour straight to your screens From the SAG Awards 2025. So, get comfy, whip up some popcorn, and gather your friends or family for an unforgettable evening.
Expect jaw-dropping fashion, heartfelt speeches, and of course, the celebration of some of the finest performances in film and television. It’s a night dedicated to honoring the best in the business, and you’ll want to be a part of it.
Conclusion
While the list of SAG Awards 2025 nominees is impressive, some of the nominations seem a bit unrealistic or even fabricated. For instance, the inclusion of Pamela Anderson in a dramatic role, Ariana Grande in “Wicked”, and “The Day of the Jackal” and “Shogun” in the SAG Awards 2025 come across as odd choices.
