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 The Fox Searchlight film about a furious woman seeking justice
for the murder of her daughter was named best ensemble, the top
SAG honor.
Frances McDormand won best actress and Sam Rockwell took home
the best supporting actor statuette for their roles in the film.
Britain's Gary Oldman won best actor for playing wartime leader
Winston Churchill in Focus Features' "Darkest Hour."
Allison Janney won for her supporting actress role as a
demanding mother in independent ice-skating movie "I, Tonya."
The SAG awards are indicators of likely Oscar success in March
because actors form the largest group of voters in the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Oscar nominations will be announced on Tuesday.
The SAG ceremony took place after two days of marches by
hundreds of thousands of women throughout the United States.
Host Kristen Bell said women were having a "watershed moment."
"Let's make sure we lead the charge with empathy and diligence
because fear and anger never win the race," said Bell, star of
television's "The Good Place."
Accusations of sexual misconduct have forced dozens of powerful
men in Hollywood to step down, be fired or dropped from creative
projects.
Women, many of them leading actresses, have responded by
breaking their silence through the #MeToo social media movement
and the Time's Up campaign for legal support of victims.
On the red carpet, women swapped the black gowns that marked
support for victims of sexual harassment at the Golden Globes
two weeks ago for brighter blues, green and metallic hues.
Women were the dominant theme inside the Shrine Auditorium.
Nicole Kidman, 50, won for playing a battered wife in HBO's
female-centric TV series "Big Little Lies."
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"How wonderful that our careers today can go beyond 40 years old.
Twenty years ago we were pretty washed up by this stage in our
lives. This is not the case now," Kidman said.
Aziz Ansari, nominated for his Netflix comedy series "Master of
None," was a no-show on Sunday after making headlines last week when
a woman described feeling violated following an awkward date last
year. Ansari said he believed their sexual activity was consensual.
Ansari lost the television comedy actor statuette to William H. Macy
for "Shameless."
James Franco, a best actor nominee for "The Disaster Artist," did
show up but skipped the red carpet and did not win. Franco had kept
a low profile since describing allegations of sexual impropriety
against him by five women two weeks ago as "not accurate."
In television, NBC's sentimental family drama "This is Us" was named
the best drama ensemble cast in a surprise win over presumed front
runners "The Crown" and dystopian series "A Handmaid's Tale."
The cast of HBO political satire "Veep" won best ensemble for a
television comedy. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who is undergoing treatment
for breast cancer and missed the SAG show, was named best comedy
actress.
"She's genuinely been in good spirits when we've seen her, which I
think will carry her along ... She is incredibly strong and is
uniquely able to combat something like this,” Timothy Simons, who
plays Jonah Ryan on "Veep," told reporters on Sunday.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Additional reporting by Lisa Richwine;
Editing by Daniel Wallis, Paul Simao and Paul Tait)
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