Trial of Chicago 7, Chadwick Boseman top winners at Screen Actors Guild awards

The actor, who died of cancer last year, picked up another award for his final role as an ambitious 1930s trumpet player in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Minari brought a supporting actress award for South Korean veteran Youn Yuh-jung as a cantankerous grandmother

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Sacha Baron Cohen (left) and Jeremy Strong in a scene from The Trial of the Chicago 7. Photo: Netflix via AP

Published: 2:51pm, 5 Apr 2021Updated: 2:50pm, 5 Apr 2021

Courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 and jazz period film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom were the big winners at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards, one of the last major ceremonies before the Oscars.

The Trial of the Chicago 7, set during a Vietnam war protest in 1968, took the prize for best ensemble with a cast that includes Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella and Mark Rylance.

Langella credited writer and director Aaron Sorkin for the win, saying his “voice is the soul of this movie.”

All four of the winning film actors were people of colour, the first time this has happened in the SAG awards’ 27-history.

Simone Ledward Boseman accepts the actor for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading Role for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on behalf of her late husband Chadwick Boseman. Photo: SAG Awards Handout via Reuters

Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer last year at age 43, picked up another award for his final role as an ambitious 1930s trumpet player in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Sunday’s SAG win positioned him as front-runner for his first Oscar at the Academy Awards on April 25.

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