Experts slugfest: Breaking down the 2024 SAG Awards nominations snubs and surprises

Where in the world is Leonardo DiCaprio?! And Mark Ruffalo?! And Jeremy Strong?! Gold Derby editors and Experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to discuss all the snubs and surprises from the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.

As usual, the SAG Awards threw in some SAGgy curveballs, the most notable one being a snub for DiCaprio. The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star is MIA in the lead actor lineup. Does this make him vulnerable at the Oscars? The supporting categories had all sorts of chaos. “American Fiction” got a big boost with a nom for Sterling K. Brown in supporting actor. “Poor Things” also made the category — but not for the person most people expected as Mark Ruffalo was left out in favor of Willem Dafoe. Can they both get in at the Oscars? Penelope Cruz crashed the supporting actress for “Ferrari” over expected nominee Julianne Moore, whose film “May December” got completely blanked. Meanwhile, “The Color Purple” showed some life with two bids, including ensemble. Is that enough to make the Best Picture lineup at the Oscars?

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Over on TV, “Succession” ruled with five nominations, but there was a glaring snub for the eldest boy. Strong, who was nominated for Season 3, missed out on a drama actor bid to co-stars Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen and Brian Cox, the last of whom wasn’t in more than half of Season 4. What happened here?

Elsewhere, we make our Critics Choice predictions in film and TV for Sunday.

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Timestamps:
Intro and film categories (0:00)
TV categories (28:10)
Critics Choice film predictions (45:47)
Critics Choice TV predictions (1:00:28)
Listener questions (1:10:34)

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