Glenn Close Wins Best Actress Award from Screen Actors Guild
Glenn Close Wins Best Actress Award from Screen Actors Guild Movies for Grownups
Close is also nominated for best actress in AARP's Feb. 4 (to be telecast Feb. 15 on PBS).
Among TV winners, the most significant was Patricia Arquette, 50, for her role in . Most of her major awards have arrived in middle age, partly because she plays her age, never more daringly than as the frumpy but still wildly sexual character Tilly Mitchell in Dannemora. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Tony Shalhoub, 65, won best comedy series actor, and he thanked his mentor Alan Arkin, 84: “He’s why I became an actor.” The comedy series actor nominations were dominated by grownups, including Arkin; his costar Michael Douglas, 74; and Barry star Henry Winkler, 73. Jason Bateman, 50, won best drama series actor for Ozark. The cast of won SAG’s ensemble award, improving its Oscar odds for best picture.
Glenn Close Wins Best Actress at SAG Awards
Screen Actors Guild also honors Tony Shalhoub cast of ' Black Panther'
Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Turner The 2019 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards brought good news for grownup talent, starting with show host Megan Mullally. Mullally joked about starring in 1942’s Casablanca, falsely claimed she would soon play the grandma of lover Alec Baldwin, 60, and teased Emma Stone for losing her career by turning 30. Stone’s $1.5 billion career is in zero danger, and Mullally’s jokes about Hollywood ageism — plus her success at 60 — may have changed some ageist minds. Besides SAG Lifetime Achievement Winner , 83, the most significant success of the night was best actress winner Glenn Close, 71, who has more Oscar nominations (seven) without a win than any performer alive. She was already the Oscar frontrunner, having won the Critics’ Choice Award for . But beating Lady Gaga () for the SAG award boosts her prospects. Eighteen of the 24 prior SAG best actress winners went on to get an Oscar.Close is also nominated for best actress in AARP's Feb. 4 (to be telecast Feb. 15 on PBS).
Among TV winners, the most significant was Patricia Arquette, 50, for her role in . Most of her major awards have arrived in middle age, partly because she plays her age, never more daringly than as the frumpy but still wildly sexual character Tilly Mitchell in Dannemora. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Tony Shalhoub, 65, won best comedy series actor, and he thanked his mentor Alan Arkin, 84: “He’s why I became an actor.” The comedy series actor nominations were dominated by grownups, including Arkin; his costar Michael Douglas, 74; and Barry star Henry Winkler, 73. Jason Bateman, 50, won best drama series actor for Ozark. The cast of won SAG’s ensemble award, improving its Oscar odds for best picture.