‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Sinners’ Get Screen Actors Guild Awards Love, But ‘Andor’ Not So Much

If you paid attention to io9’s end of year coverage, you know how much we loved season two of Andor. Every aspect of Star Wars The Disney+ show was fantastic: the writing, the direction, the costumes, even the music– but the performances were notably above and beyond. However, you will not get any validation on this from the Screen Actors Guildapparently; Today’s nominees for the Actor Awards, the new name for the SAG Awards, included just one nod for Andor: Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series.

This is the only category of the Actor Award Andor has Never been nominated for, in fact. The first time, in 2023, he lost to Stranger Things; this year, it’s against Landman, The last of us, Squid gameAnd… Stranger Things.

However, you can’t point the finger at SAG-AFTRA and label its members as gender haters, even though Diego Luna (at the very least) was clearly robbed. Other projects in science fiction and horror have received recognition, including several nominations for Sinners And Frankenstein.

Sinners landed nods for Michael B. Jordan’s leading actor performance (he’s the only nominee in any category to be nominated for two roles in one film), Miles Caton’s supporting actor performance, and Wumni Mosaku’s supporting actress performance. SinnersThe entire ensemble was also nominated for Outstanding Cast Performance, as was its stunt team in the motion picture category.

Frankenstein was also nominated for its acting and stunt ensembles. Jacob Elordi was singled out for his supporting performance as the Creature.

Elsewhere, Bugonia garnered a few nods (Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone for their lead performances). The supporting actress category also includes Ariana Grande (Bad guy: for good) and Amy Madigan (Weapons).

On the TV side, instead of everything Andor love, genre nominees include Sterling K. Brown (actor in a drama for Heaven); Lower Britt (Breaking) and Rhea Seehorn (More) in the dramatic actress category; Jenna Ortega (comedy actress for Wednesday); and all of Breakup.

You can stream the Actor Awards (see all nominees here) March 1 on Netflix.

For those following this year’s big Hollywood ceremonies, the Golden Globes will take place on January 11 (there is some overlap in nominees, as well as others Andor snobbery; read about it here); you can stream them on Paramount+. The Oscars, meanwhile, will announce the nominees on January 22 and distribute the Oscars on March 15, during a broadcast on ABC.

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