Best and worst moments: 2024 SAG Awards
(LR) Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Billie Eilish, Melissa McCarthy and Lily Gladstone
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The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were full of memorable moments, from humor to heartfelt moments. From Meryl Streep hitting the microphone on stage, Billie Eilish signing Melissa McCarthy’s face, and Lily Gladstone making history with her Best Actress in a Picture win, here are some memorable moments from the 2024 SAG Awards on Saturday night.
Meryl Streep has a microphone accident before giving a presentation
Before he met her The devil wears Prada Co-stars Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt at the 2024 SAG Awards Meryl Streep had a minor mishap with the microphone. After Idris Elba introduced her to present the first award of the night — Best Actor in a Comedy Series, which went to Jeremy Allen White — Streep walked straight to the microphone on stage. She quickly grabbed the microphone stand, looking extremely exhausted. “Two things, I forgot my glasses…obviously. And the envelope,” she said, laughing. Read more. — Carly Thomas
Billie Eilish signs Melissa McCarthy’s face with a Sharpie
Melissa McCarthy won’t soon forget sharing a moment on stage at the SAG Awards with Billie Eilish thanks to her black mustache. In one of the show’s funniest moments, McCarthy and Eilish took to the stage to present the award for Actress in a Comedy Series, and the movie star took the opportunity to have a fangirl moment. McCarthy reminded Eilish that they had met before, several times in fact, though Eilish didn’t seem to remember. “We’ve actually met before, but it’s okay, it doesn’t matter. I mean, why do you remember that? You shouldn’t remember. We’ve met twice, actually met three times. I’ve met my daughters and one of my dogs,” McCarthy told the music star, who… touring (and collecting loads of awards) for writing “What I’m Made For” for Barbie Audio recording. Read more. — Chris Gardner
“He’ll never get tired” of the sound of his voice while accepting the award, Robert Downey Jr. jokes
Robert Downey Jr. won Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards. After an awards season filled with the actor’s comedic acceptance speeches, he took a moment to list the actors (and his wife) who have inspired him over the years. “This is actually incredibly meaningful to me, thank you very much,” Downey Jr. said. “Why me? Why now? Why do things seem to be going my way? Unlike my fellow candidates, I will never tire of my voice.” Read more. — Beatrice Verhoeven
Modern family The stars are among the many actors who gathered during the ceremony
cast behind Modern family On Saturday, they gathered to present the award for Best Comedy Ensemble to the stars The bear At the 2024 SAG Awards. Modern family Alumni Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are remembered for their ABC show after winning this category four previous times. “This really brings back memories,” Burrell said. After Vergara mentioned the popularity of her Netflix series Griselda“Jesse, push,” Stonestreet said sarcastically. She told you she’d mention it in the first ten seconds. Read more. — Ryan Gajewski
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stars Too bad On Saturday, they gathered for a profanity-filled reunion to present the award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series to the cast Succession At the 2024 SAG Awards. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Dean Norris and RJ Mitty were among those who gathered to represent Too badCelebrating the show’s win in this category 10 years ago. After Gunn began spelling out the word “squad” by explaining that the “E” stood for “excitement,” Odenkirk joked: “And the letter N. N stands for ‘no’ — there’s no way I’m doing this in a corny way.” The thing where you say every letter of the word. I do not do that. Read more. — Ryan Gajewski
Lily Gladstone continues to make history
Lily Gladstone made history by winning Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday. She won for her role as Molly Burkhart Moonflower Killers, directed by Martin Scorsese, making her the first Indigenous actress to win the category. Her character was an Osage woman married to a key accomplice in the systematic assassination of the Osage people in the 1920s. After Gladstone received the honor from Jessica Chastain, she took to the stage to say how “proud” she was of her fellow actors who had come “here in solidarity with all our other unions” in the wake of last year’s Hollywood strikes. Read more. — Carly Thomas
Barbra Streisand moves the audience to tears with her moving speech
When she was a teenager, Barbra Streisand dreamed of becoming an actress while sitting on her bed in Brooklyn with a pint of coffee ice cream and a movie magazine. During those days, after school, she would take a break at the Astor Theater in New York, which showed international black-and-white films. Another time, I indulged in a show Men and dollat Loew’s Kings Theater in her neighborhood. “Everything was so beautiful on that screen,” Streisand said in her acceptance speech as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday. “This fantasy world was more fun than anything I was experiencing. I didn’t like reality. I wanted to be in movies, even though I knew I didn’t look like other women on screen. You’d better learn to write,” my mother said, but I didn’t listen. Somehow, thank God, everything came true. Read more. — Chris Gardner
