“Manchester by the Sea” has a leading four nominations heading into tonight’s presentation of the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, while “Fences” and “Moonlight” each have three.
“La La Land,” which won a record seven Golden Globes earlier this month and has a record-tying 14 Oscar nods, isn’t nominated for SAG’s top award of best ensemble in a motion picture, although Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone both have nods for their leading roles.
Competing for the SAG ensemble award — the guild’s equivalent of a best picture prize — will be director Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea,” Denzel Washington’s “Fences,” Barry Jenkins’ Golden Globe-winning “Moonlight,” “Hidden Figures” by writer-director Theodore Melfi and Matt Ross’ “Captain Fantastic.”
Golden Globe dramatic-actor winner Casey Affleck is a strong favorite to win the SAG prize for best actor for his work as an uncle forced to adopt his teen nephew in “Manchester by the Sea.” He will be competing with Gosling, nominated for his turn as a jazz pianist in “La La Land”; Denzel Washington, for his role as a former baseball star trying to support his family as a garbage collector in an adaptation of playwright August Wilson’s “Fences”; Andrew Garfield as a conscientious objector in “Hacksaw Ridge”; and Viggo Mortensen for his turn as a free-spirited father in “Captain Fantastic.”
Stone, who portrayed an aspiring actress in “La La Land,” will compete for best actress against Amy Adams (“Arrival”), Emily Blunt (“The Girl on the Train”), Natalie Portman (“Jackie”) and Meryl Streep (“Florence Foster Jenkins”).
Isabelle Huppert, who won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama for “Elle” and is nominated for an Oscar, didn’t make the SAG list of nominees. Stone won the Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy film.
Viola Davis is the leading contender for supporting actress for her emotional portrayal of a struggling wife and mother in “Fences.” Also nominated are Naomie Harris for her role as a drug-addicted mother in “Moonlight,” Nicole Kidman of “Lion,” Octavia Spencer as a behind-the- scenes mathematician at NASA in “Hidden Figures” and Michelle Williams in “Manchester by the Sea.”
Competing for supporting actor will be Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”), Jeff Bridges (“Hell or High Water”), Hugh Grant (“Florence Foster Jenkins”), Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”) and Dev Patel (“Lion”).
Ali is also nominated as part of the “Hidden Figures” cast, giving him three nominations in all. He has been nominated six times, but this is his first nomination for an individual role.
On the television side of the awards, “The Crown,” “Downton Abbey,” “Game of Thrones,” “Stranger Things” and “Westworld” will compete for best ensemble cast in a TV drama.
The casts of “The Big Bang Theory,” “Black-ish,” “Modern Family,” “Orange is the New Black” and “Veep” are nominated for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series. “Modern Family” could break its tie with the long-running medical drama “ER” for most actor awards in the ensemble category with a win.
Nominated for leading roles in a drama series are Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”), Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), John Lithgow (“The Crown”), Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”) and Kevin Spacey (“House of Cards”).
First-time nominees Mille Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”) and Claire Foy (“The Crown”) will compete with Thandie Newton (“Westworld”), Winona Ryder (“Stranger Things”) and Robin Wright (“House of Cards”) for the actress in a drama category.
On the comedy side, Uzo Aduba is nominated for lead actress for her role as an inmate in a woman’s jail (“Orange is the New Black”), both Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are nominated for their roles in “Grace and Frankie,” Ellie Kemper for her madcap portrayal of the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for her political send-up of presidential politics in “Veep.”
Tomlin will also receive a Life Achievement Award during the ceremony.
Actors nominated for their comedy roles are Anthony Anderson (“Black- ish”), Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), Ty Burrell (“Modern Family”), William H. Macy (“Shameless”) and Jeffrey Tambor (“Transparent”).
Two sets of actors from the same series will be competing against each other for their roles in a television movie or limited series: first-time nominee Riz Ahmed for his role as an accused murderer and John Turturro as his down-on-his-luck defense attorney in “The Night Of,” and Sterling K. Brown as prosecutor Christopher Darden and Courtney B. Vance as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” Brown and Vance are both first-time nominees. Bryan Cranston is also in the running for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in “All the Way.”
Actresses nominated for their roles in a television movie or limited series are Bryce Dallas Howard for “Black Mirror,” Felicity Huffman for “American Crime,” Audra McDonald for “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” Sarah Paulson for “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” and Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in “Confirmation.”
“Captain America: Civil War,” “Doctor Strange, “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Jason Bourne” and “Nocturnal Animals” are nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for stunt ensembles in a motion picture. For television stunt teams, nominees are “Game of Thrones,” Marvel’s “Daredevil,” Marvel’s “Luke Cage,” “The Walking Dead” and “Westworld.”
The awards will be presented at the Shrine Exposition Center and air live on TBS and TNT.
Here is a complete list of nominations for tonight’s 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
— Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
— Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
— Ryan Gosling, “La La Land”
— Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”
— Denzel Washington, “Fences” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
— Amy Adams, “Arrival”
— Emily Blunt, “The Girl on the Train”
— Natalie Portman, “Jackie”
— Emma Stone, “La La Land”
— Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
— Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
— Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”
— Hugh Grant, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
— Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”
— Dev Patel, “Lion” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
— Viola Davis, “Fences”
— Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”
— Nicole Kidman, “Lion”
— Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”
— Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
— “Captain Fantastic,” Annalise Basso, Shree Crooks, Ann Dowd, Kathryn Hahn, Nicholas Hamilton, Samantha Isler, Frank Langella, George MacKay, Erin Moriarty, Viggo Mortensen, Missi Pyle, Charlie Shotwell, Steve Zahn
— “Fences,” Jovan Adepo, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby, Saniyya Sidney, Denzel Washington, Mykelti Williamson
— “Hidden Figures,” Mahershala Ali, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Janelle Monae, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, Octavia Spencer
— “Manchester by the Sea,” Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams
— “Moonlight,” Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Andre Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monae, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders
TELEVISION PROGRAMS Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
— Riz Ahmed, “The Night Of”
— Sterling K. Brown, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”
— Bryan Cranston, “All the Way”
— John Turturro, “The Night Of”
— Courtney B. Vance, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
— Bryce Dallas Howard, “Black Mirror”
— Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
— Audra McDonald, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”
— Sarah Paulson, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”
— Kerry Washington, “Confirmation” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
— Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us”
— Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
— John Lithgow, “The Crown”
— Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”
— Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
— Mille Bobby Brown, “Stranger Things”
— Claire Foy, “The Crown”
— Thandie Newton, “Westworld”
— Winona Ryder, “Stranger Things”
— Robin Wright, “House of Cards” Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
— Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
— Tituss Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
— Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
— William H. Macy, “Shameless”
— Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent” Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
— Uzo Aduba, “Orange Is the New Black”
— Jane Fonda, “Grace and Frankie”
— Ellie Kemper, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
— Lily Tomlin, “Grace and Frankie” Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
— “The Crown,” Claire Foy, Clive Francis, Harry Hadden-Paton, Victoria Hamilton, Daniel Ings, Billy Jenkins, Vanessa Kirby, John Lithgow, Lizzy McInnerny, Ben Miles, Jeremy Northam, Nicholas Rowe, Matt Smith, Pip Torrens, Harriet Walter
— “Downton Abbey,” Samantha Bond, Hugh Bonneville, Patrick Brennan, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Paul Copley, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Michael Fox, Joanne Froggatt, Matthew Goode, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Sue Johnston, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Douglas Reith, David Robb, Maggie Smith, Jeremy Swift, Howard Ward, Penelope Wilton
— “Game of Thrones,” Alfie Allen, Jacob Anderson, Dean Charles Chapman, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Liam Cunningham, Peter Dinklage, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kit Harington, Lean Headey, Conleth Hill, Kristofer Hivju, Michiel Huisman, Fay Marsay, Jonathan Pryce, Sophie Turner, Carice van Houten, Gemma Whelan, Maisie Williams
— “Stranger Things,” Millie Bobby Brown, Cara Buono, Joe Chrest, Natalia Dyer, David Harbour, Charlie Heaton, Joe Kerry, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Matthew Modine, Rob Morgan, John Paul Reynolds, Winona Ryder, Noah Schnapp, Mark Steger, Finn Wolfhard
— “Westworld,” Ben Barnes, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Ed Harris, Luke Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Sidse Babett Knudsen, James Marsden, Leonardo Nam, Thandie Newton, Talulah Riley, Rodrigo Santoro, Angela Sarafyan, Jimmi Simpson, Ptolemy Slocum, Evan Rachel Wood, Shannon Woodward, Jeffrey Wright Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
— “The Big Bang Theory,” Mayim Bialik, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Jim Parsons, Melissa Rauch
— “Black-ish,” Anthony Anderson, Miles Brown, Deon Cole, Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Peter Mackenzie, Marsai Martin, Jeff Meacham, Tracee Ellis Ross, Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi
— “Modern Family,” Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Jeremy Maguire, Ed O’Neill, Rico Rodriguez, Eric Stonestreet, Sofia Vergara, Ariel Winter
— “Orange Is the New Black,” Uzo Aduba, Alan Aisenberg, Danielle Brooks, Blair Brown, Jackie Cruz, Lea DeLaria, Beth Dover, Kimiko Glenn, Annie Golden, Laura Gomez, Diane Guerrero, Michael J. Harney, Brad William Henke, Vicky Jeudy, Julie Lake, Selenis Leyva, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, James McMenamin, Adrienne C. Moore, Kate Mulgrew, Emma Myles, Matt Peters, Lori Petty, Jessica Pimentel, Dascha Polanco, Laura Prepon, Jolene Purdy, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Nick Sandow, Abigail Savage, Taylor Schilling, Constance Shulman, Dale Soules, Yael Stone, Lin Tucci, Samira Wiley
— “Veep,” Dan Bakkedahl, Sufe Bradshaw, Anna Chlumsky, Gary Cole, Kevin Dunn, Clea Duvall, Nelson Franklin, Tony Hale, Hugh Laurie, Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Sam Richardson, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, John Slattery, Sarah Sutherland, Matt Walsh, Wayne Wilderson
SAG AWARDS HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
— “Captain American: Civil War”
— “Doctor Strange”
— “Hacksaw Ridge”
— “Jason Bourne”
— “Nocturnal Animals” Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series
— “Game of Thrones”
— “Marvel’s Daredevil”
— “Marvel’s Luke Cage”
— “The Walking Dead”
— “Westworld”
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 52nd Annual SAG Life Achievement Award
— Lily Tomlin
–City News Service