Honored with individual awards were Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose for performances in motion pictures, and Michael Keaton, Kate Winslet, Lee Jung-jae, Jung Ho-yeon, Jason Sudeikis and Jean Smart for performances in television. The Actor® for a motion picture cast performance this year went to “CODA,” and  the Actors® for television drama and comedy ensemble performances went to “Succession” and Ted Lasso.” The Screen Actors Guild Awards originated awards for motion picture cast and by television drama and comedy ensembles.

Awards for for outstanding action performances were presented during the official live pre-show on Red Carpet Live: 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The stunt ensemble from No Time to Die was honored for motion picture and the stunt ensemble from Squid Game was honored for television.

Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett presented Helen Mirren with the 57th Life Achievement Award. The SAG Awards continued its traditions of presenting a montage saluting the work of SAG-AFTRA members and a filmed “In Memoriam” tribute honoring the union’s members lost during the past year.

*SAG Awards Eligibility Period: March 1 – December 31, 2021

Here is a full list of the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Recipients

The Motion Picture Winners are:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

WILL SMITH / Richard Williams – “KING RICHARD”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

JESSICA CHASTAIN / Tammy Faye Bakker – “THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

TROY KOTSUR / Frank Rossi – “CODA”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

ARIANA DeBOSE / Anita – “WEST SIDE STORY”

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

CODA

EUGENIO DERBEZ / Bernardo Villalobos

DANIEL DURANT / Leo Rossi

EMILIA JONES / Ruby Rossi

TROY KOTSUR / Frank Rossi

MARLEE MATLIN / Jackie Rossi

FERDIA WALSH-PEELO / Miles

The Television Program Winners are:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

MICHAEL KEATON / Dr. Samuel Finnix – “DOPESICK”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

KATE WINSLET / Mare Sheehan – “MARE OF EASTTOWN”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

LEE JUNG-JAE / Seong Gi-hun – “SQUID GAME”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

JUNG HO-YEON / Kang Sae-byeok – “SQUID GAME”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso – “TED LASSO” 

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

JEAN SMART / Deborah Vance – “HACKS”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

SUCCESSION

HIAM ABBASS / Marcia Roy

NICHOLAS BRAUN / Greg Hirsch

JULIANA CANFIELD / Jess Jordan

BRIAN COX / Logan Roy

KIERAN CULKIN / Roman Roy

DAGMARA DOMINCZYK / Karolina Novotney

PETER FRIEDMAN / Frank Vernon

JIHAE / Berry Schneider

JUSTINE LUPE / Willa

MATTHEW MACFADYEN / Tom Wambsgans

DASHA NEKRASOVA / Comfrey Pellits

SCOTT NICHOLSON / Colin

DAVID RASCHE / Karl Muller

ALAN RUCK / Connor Roy

J. SMITH-CAMERON / Gerri Kellman

SARAH SNOOK / Shiv Roy

FISHER STEVENS / Hugo Baker

JEREMY STRONG / Kendall Roy

ZOË WINTERS / Kerry Castellabate

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

TED LASSO

ANNETTE BADLAND / Mae

KOLA BOKINNI / Isaac McAdoo

PHIL DUNSTER / Jamie Tartt

CRISTO FERNÁNDEZ / Dani Rojas

BRETT GOLDSTEIN / Roy Kent

BRENDAN HUNT / Coach Beard

TOHEEB JIMOH / Sam Obisanya

NICK MOHAMMED / Nathan Shelley

SARAH NILES / Dr. Sharon Fieldstone

JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso

JEREMY SWIFT / Leslie Higgins

JUNO TEMPLE / Keeley Jones

HANNAH WADDINGHAM / Rebecca Welton

The Stunt Ensemble Winners are:

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

“NO TIME TO DIE”

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series

“SQUID GAME”

The 57th Annual SAG Life Achievement Award

Helen Mirren

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Up-and-coming filmmakers Jessica Mendez Siqueiros and Brian Robau have done a little bit of short writing in addition to other tasks like producing, acting, and directing. They are now scripting their first feature film with the help of some seasoned wordsmiths.

Mendez Siqueiros and Robau are among the Sundance Institute’s ninth annual Screenwriters Intensive program, which is supported by the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation. The program aims to help emerging independent writers and writers/directors develop their first fiction features. The two-day writers’ training takes place online this week.

Mendez Siqueiros is developing the screenplay for Reforma about a young Mexican American girl in 1967 Tucson who tries to solve the problems of her newly-integrated community through dance. A Chicana writer/director of mixed indigenous Sonoran and European ancestry, she says her goal is to “normalize complex and authentic narratives about the Southwest Mexican-American community through film.”

Mendez Siqueiros has written screenplays for three shorts. Her first one was for Before a Mirror in 2016, followed by And Still, We Love two years later. Her most recent is Pozole, a 2019 dark comedy about a mixed-race Latina woman who sets out to reconnect with her traditional Mexican roots on her nana’s 100th birthday, in which things go terribly wrong. She also directs it. Pozole went on to win awards at the Charlotte Film Festival, Cinequest San Jose Film Festival, and Lake County Film Festival. The film is reportedly the first narrative short executive-produced by the data-transfer company WeTransfer. 

For Robau, the other Screenwriters Intensive fellow, stories about his Cuban-American community are important. He is developing the screenplay for 91 Miles, a drama about a Cuban father and his teen daughter who try to mend their relationship while making a perilous journey from their island country to Miami. Co-writing the feature script is Daniel Klein, who also participates in the Screenwriters Intensive. Robau and Klein worked together in two shorts, It’s Just a Gun and Esta Es Tu Cuba.

Robau is a two-time Student Academy Award-winning director. He won the Silver Medal with It’s Just a Gun in 2016, followed by a Bronze Medal for Esta Es Tu Cuba in 2018. The latter film is inspired by his father and other Cuban refugee children that were part of Operación Pedro Pan that brought thousands of unaccompanied undocumented minors to the U.S. in the early 1960s. Esta Es Tu Cuba won a Student DGA award, a College Television Award, and a student BAFTA nomination. The film is currently available on HBO Max.

Robau received a master’s in fine arts in directing from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Media Arts. Born and raised in Miami, he currently resides in Los Angeles.

“This cohort of artists from traditionally underrepresented communities will have the opportunity to interrogate their stories and refine their artistic practice,” says Ilyse McKimmie, deputy director of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program.

The group of advisors for the 2021 Screenwriters Intensive include Andrew Ahn, Susanna Fogel, Tanya Hamilton, Sarah Koskoff, Michael Starrbury, Wesley Strick, Yen Tan, Joan Tewkesbury, Rose Troche, Ligiah Villalobos, and Kevin Willmott.

Featured Top Photo: Filmmakers Jessica Mendez Siqueiros and Brian Robau by Tammie Rosen/Courtesy of the Sundance Institute.

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The Banks family is back! Will Smith, who played the “Fresh Prince,” released a glimpse of the trailer of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion on social media, just in time to give fans some pre-Thanksgiving cheer.

The reunion features the cast gathered in the Banks’ living room to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show.  Smith is joined by series regulars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Alfonso Ribeiro, and DJ Jazzy Jeff as they talk about the show and how it affected both them and their viewers.

Marcus Raboy (Laugh Aid, Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It?) directs the special, which is executive produced by Rikki Hughes, who also serves as showrunner, as well as Miguel Melendez (Hawthorne, The Human Factor), Lukas Kaiser, James Lassiter, and Brad Haugen for Westbrook Media, according to a press release from HBO Max, the cable channel where the reunion show will air.  

The NBC sitcom ran from 1990 to 1996 and was the epitome of black excellence with a Black family at the center of attention.

Many Latinos grew up watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. A few Latinos worked in the show. Actress Ali, who played cousin Ashley, is of Panamanian descent. Knowing that Latinos were represented matters, even if it is after the fact.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is said to be loosely based on Benny Medina‘s life, now producing partner to Jennifer Lopez and her manager for many years prior. Born in East Los Angeles, Medina befriended Kerryn Gordy, son of Motown founder Berry Gordy. Medina was co-executive producer for 146 episodes. Mara Lopez, another Latin talent, also served as associate producer for 123 episodes.

So you can say that The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was practicing diversity before it was even a thing.

The word is that Smith has plans beyond the reunion for a revival of the show. It is said that he has signed on as executive producer which is currently being shopped around to the streaming networks. The reunion isn’t the only Fresh Prince revival in the works. Smith is said to be on board for a dramatic reboot as executive producer along with Medina and Melendez which is being shopped around.

The reunion is set to release Nov. 19 on HBO Max.

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In 2015, after a successful career in Mexico doing theater and starring in several telenovelas, Paola Nuñez took a career leap and moved to Los Angeles. A year later she achieved her goal playing Maria opposite Pierce Brosnan in AMC’s The Son. The role gave her the opportunity to give a voice to the history and struggle of the first Mexican-Americans in the US.

Currently, she stars as Esme Carmona, in USA’s The Purge as a top employee at an NFFA surveillance center who has dedicated her life to spotting crimes and digitally tagging lawbreakers.

Based on the hit movie franchise, The Purge revolves around a 12-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal. Season 2 explores how a single Purge night affects the lives of four interconnected characters over the course of the ensuing year, all inevitably leading up to the next Purge. Hailing from Blumhouse Television and UCP, the second season of the anthology series opens on Purge night but dives deeper than ever before into what the Purge world looks like the other 364 days of the year.

Nuñez most recently wrapped production on Bad Boys For Life where she plays Will Smith’s former girlfriend.

Her credits in Mexico include La Reina del Sur, La Mermanadad, Palabra de Ladrón, Reina de corazones and Pasión Morena.

Nuñez is repped by UTA and Vision Entertainment.

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