'Sinners' wins top prize at the Actor Awards ahead of Oscar showdown

LOS ANGELES -- The Actor Awards, the recently renamed mentation of the yearly SAG Awards, celebrated standout achievements successful movie and tv connected Sunday night, with respective Oscar contenders among the evening's apical winners.

The formed of "Sinners" earned the apical prize -- the Actor for outstanding show by a formed successful a question picture. The film's star, Michael B. Jordan, besides won for his pb relation playing twins.

Onstage, helium reflected connected his aboriginal vocation and thanked his parent for each of the sacrifices she made on the way.

"Mom, convey you for driving maine backmost and distant to New York erstwhile we didn't person capable wealth for the Holland Tunnel oregon erstwhile we were looking for state money," helium said.

Jessie Buckley won the Actor for pistillate histrion successful a starring relation for her show successful "Hamnet." In the supporting categories, Sean Penn received the Actor for "One Battle After Another," and Amy Madigan was honored for "Weapons."

Madigan joked astir the trophy she was holding, saying, "It was similar erstwhile you were small and you had the Barbie, and past you got Ken, and past you whipped down his drawers, and you went, 'Ken has nothing.'"

On the tv side, "The Studio" dominated the drama categories, winning champion ensemble arsenic good arsenic acting honors for Seth Rogen and the precocious Catherine O'Hara.

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Rogen praised O'Hara successful his acceptance code connected her behalf, saying, "And she truly showed that you tin beryllium a genius and beryllium kind, and 1 of those things doesn't person to travel astatine the disbursal of the different successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form."

Keri Russell won the Actor for her show successful "The Diplomat," portion Noah Wyle was recognized for his relation successful "The Pitt," which besides won ensemble successful a play series.

"What I admit is there's country connected tv for each benignant of infirmary show," Wyle said. "You tin person 1 arsenic wide drama arsenic Scrubs and hard-hitting and realistic arsenic 'The Pitt.'"

The ceremonial carried added emotion arsenic Harrison Ford accepted the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.

"I'm, indeed, a fortunate guy," Ford said onstage. "Lucky to person recovered my people, fortunate to person enactment that challenges me, fortunate to inactive beryllium doing it. And I don't instrumentality that for granted."

"If you spot maine successful a film, I'm being propped up by the different actors, by the writing, by everybody that works connected the set. I don't enactment alone. Nobody does," helium said connected the reddish carpet.

With awards play nearing its end, the last large ceremonial up is the Oscars, acceptable for Sunday, March 15.

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