5 Oscar takeaways from the 2025 SAG Award nominations, including why there still isn't a Best Picture frontrunner

Wednesday morning brought us the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, which featured some expected inclusions and some real surprises.

Best Picture contenders like Emilia Pérez, Conclave, Anora and Wicked all fared well with the largest guild in Hollywood, albeit one that will always reflect its personal tastes as opposed to the Academy Awards.

When trying to figure out what to seriously consider with the SAG nominations for the Oscars and what to write off as an isolated nomination, you have to consider how the two groups historically line up and how the Academy is changing from where it was even a decade ago.

As we survey this latest group of SAG nominees, let’s see what the Oscar takeaways are as we get closer to nomination morning next Friday.