SAG Awards 2023; Brendan Fraser and Everything Everywhere All At Once are the big winners ahead of Oscars 2023

It was a big night for audience favourites Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale’s Brendan Fraser at the latest award ceremony on the road to the Oscars 2023. The Screen Actors Guild Awards took place at the Fairmont Century Plaza, Century City, California overnight, with the stars coming out and, according to some reports, had issues entering the event.

There was a brief hold-up entering the awards ceremony as a fire marshall prevented celebrities including Rooney Mara and Bill Murray from entering the plaza, but representatives for Mara stated the hold-up was due to concerns of overcrowding the event, which honoured Sally Field with a lifetime achievement award.

When the ceremony did take place, however, it was Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s absurdist action comedy that made most of the headlines. Having been nominated for five awards, the 2022 film took home four of those awards - including Best Picture, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan. His remarkable return to cinema and win at the SAGs 2023 means he is the first Asian Male winner since the award’s inception.

In his acceptance speech, Quan told attendees “This is a really emotional moment for me. Recently, I was told that if I would win tonight, I would become the very first Asian actor to win in this category. When I heard this, I quickly realised that this moment no longer belongs to just me. It also belongs to everyone who has asked for change. When I stepped away from acting, it’s because there were so few opportunities.”

In the battle for Best Actor between Elvis’ Austin Butler and another fan favourite, Brendan Fraser in The Whale, it was the comeback king of 2022 that scooped the Best Actor role to perhaps strengthen his odds going into the Oscars 2023 ceremony on March 13. Fraser took a moment to address the suffering of irrelevance in Hollywood and a rallying cry not to give up.

“I’ve been at that sea and I rode that wave lately and it’s been powerful and good, and I’ve also had that wave smash me down to the ocean floor and dragged my face along there and wound up on some strange beach in a different world and wondering, where am I now?”

“And I just want you to know … all the actors out there who have gone through that or are going through that, I know how you feel. Believe me, if you just stay in there and you put one foot in front of the other, you’ll get to where you need to go. Have courage” he concluded during his speech.

Jennifer Coolidge’s purple patch of television awards continued during the event, as The White Lotus actress picked up yet another gong for her superb work in the HBO series, while Jason Bateman picked up Best Actor for his work in the final season of Netflix thriller Ozark.

But despite the overwhelming success of Everything Everywhere All at Once, the night also belonged to Sally Field, the recipient of this year’s SAG Lifetime Achievement Awards. Addressing her peers when accepting the award, Field let the audience in attendance know that “in all of these almost 60 years, there is not a day that I don’t feel quietly thrilled to call myself an actor. Thank you for this award from you, the people I most wanted respect from, actors."

Full list of Screen Actors Guild Award 2023 winners

Motion Picture Cast

• Babylon

• The Banshees of Inisherin

• WINNER: Everything Everywhere All at Once

• The Fabelmans

• Women Talking

Male Actor in a Leading Role — Motion Picture

• Austin Butler, Elvis

• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

• WINNER: Brendan Fraser, The Whale

• Bill Nighy, Living

• Adam Sandler, Hustle

Female Actor in a Leading Role — Motion Picture

• Cate Blanchett, Tár

• Viola Davis, The Woman King

• Ana de Armas, Blonde

• Danielle Deadwyler, Till

• WINNER: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Male Actor in a Supporting Role — Motion Picture

• Paul Dano, The Fabelmans

• Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

• Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

• WINNER: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

• Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse

Female Actor in a Supporting Role — Motion Picture

• Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

• Hong Chau, The Whale

• Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

• WINNER: Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once

• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

• Avatar: The Way of Water

• The Batman

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

• WINNER: Top Gun: Maverick

• The Woman King

Drama Series Ensemble

• Better Call Saul

• The Crown

• Ozark

• Severance

• WINNER: The White Lotus

Comedy Series Ensemble

• WINNER: Abbott Elementary

• Barry

• The Bear

• Hacks

• Only Murders in the Building

Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

• Steve Carell, The Patient

• Taron Egerton, Blackbird

• WINNER: Sam Elliott, 1883

• Paul Walter Hauser, Blackbird

• Evan Peters, Dahmer

Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

• Emily Blunt, The English

• WINNER: Jessica Chastain, George & Tammy

• Julia Garner, Inventing Anna

• Niecy Nash, Dahmer

• Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout

Male Actor in a Drama Series

• Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul

• WINNER: Jason Bateman, Ozark

• Jeff Bridges, The Old Man

• Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

• Adam Scott, Severance

Female Actor in a Drama Series

• WINNER: Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus

• Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown

• Julia Garner, Ozark

• Laura Linney, Ozark

• Zendaya, Euphoria

Male Actor in a Comedy Series

• Anthony Carrigan, Barry

• Bill Hader, Barry

• Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building

• Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

• WINNER: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Female Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christina Applegate, Dead to Me

• Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

• Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

• Jenna Ortega, Wednesday

• WINNER: Jean Smart, Hacks

Stunt Ensemble in a TV Series

• Andor

• The Boys

• House of the Dragon

• Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

• WINNER: Stranger Things