Apple Nabs 11 SAG Award Nominations

<p>Apple TV&plus; has been recognized with 11 nominations for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild &lpar;SAG&rpar; Awards for its broadly acclaimed Apple Original Film &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon&comma;” as well as Emmy Award-winning hits &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Morning Show&comma;” and Critics Choice Award nominee &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lessons in Chemistry&period;” The 30th Annual SAG Awards will be presented on February 23&comma; 2024 in Los Angeles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following her history-making Golden Globe Award win as the first Indigenous actress to earn the award for Best Performance&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone lands a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role&period; Additionally&comma; the film earns a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture&comma; and star Robert De Niro receives a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple’s Emmy&comma; SAG&comma; AFI and Critics Choice Award-winning comedy &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso” scores back-to-back nominations for its third season&comma; with nods for Outstanding Lead Actors Jason Sudeikis&comma; Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham&comma; alongside Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble&period; Global hit series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Morning Show” earns nominations from the Screen Actors Guild for stars Jennifer Aniston and Billy Crudup&comma; as well as an Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble nod&period; The Screen Actors Guild also recognized Apple Original Limited series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lessons in Chemistry” with a nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Limited Series for Brie Larson’s widely celebrated lead role as Elizabeth Zott&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Broadly hailed as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;masterpiece” and one of the best films of the year&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon” has been honored as the Best Film of the Year by the National Board of Review&comma; named to the American Film Institute&&num;8217&semi;s list of Motion Pictures of the Year and landed 12 Critics Choice Award nominations&period; The film has also been named to the American Film Institute&&num;8217&semi;s list of Motion Pictures of the Year&comma; and landed 12 Critics Choice Award nominations&period; Additionally&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon” has landed on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscars shortlists in the Best Makeup and Hair&comma; Best Sound&comma; Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories&comma; nominated by the Art Directors Guild for Period Feature Film&comma; the Costumer Designers Guild for Excellence in Period Film and selected as the No&period; 1 Best Film of 2023 by The New York Times and The New Yorker&comma; in addition to its recognition by over 20 critics groups globally&comma; including being awarded Best Film by the New York Film Critics Circle&period; Since the premiere of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon&comma;” Gladstone has received global praise for her iconic performance as Mollie Burkhart&comma; winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture&comma; Drama&semi; has been recognized by the National Board of Review as Best Actress of the year&semi; and nominated by the Critics Choice Awards for Best Actress&comma; among many other recognitions&period; Supporting actor Robert De Niro has been recognized for his performance by the National Board of Review&comma; the Critics Choice Awards&comma; the Golden Globes and many more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These nominations are the latest in a string of accolades for global phenomenon &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso&comma;” this year’s most Emmy-nominated comedy for the third consecutive year with 21 nods in total&comma; including Best Comedy and multiple performance nods&period; In 2022&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso” joined the ranks of comedy legends with its win for Outstanding Comedy Series for its first and second seasons&comma; becoming only the eighth series in the genre in 74 years of Emmy history to do so&period; The second season of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso” was also the most Emmy-winning comedy for the second year in a row with four total wins&comma; including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series &lpar;Jason Sudeikis&rpar;&comma; Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series &lpar;Brett Goldstein&rpar; and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series &lpar;M&period;J&period; Delaney&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to the SAG Award honors for its third season&comma; Apple’s Emmy&comma; SAG&comma; AFI and Critic Choice Award-winning global hit series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Morning Show” has previously been honored with a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for Aniston&&num;8217&semi;s powerful performance as Alex Levy&period; The series has also landed past SAG Award nominations for stars Reese Witherspoon and Billy Crudup&comma; as well as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for its second season&period; In its first season&comma; Crudup earned an Emmy Award win in the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category&comma; in addition to a Critics Choice Award&period; Director Mimi Leder has been honored with an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for helming the season one finale&period; The debut season of the series also landed a Critics Choice Award&comma; and received nominations from the Television Critics Association for Outstanding New Program and a TV Choice Award for Best New Drama&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The SAG Award nomination for widely acclaimed limited series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lessons in Chemistry” expands recent honors for the series including multiple nominations from the Critics Choice Awards&comma; Golden Globes&comma; DGA Awards&comma; Film Independent Spirit Awards and Hollywood Make-Up Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards&comma; among many others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To date&comma; Apple Original films&comma; documentaries and series have earned 638 wins and 1&comma;836 award nominations and counting&comma; including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;CODA&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In total&comma; Apple received 11 SAG Award nominations&comma; including&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role — Lily Gladstone<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role — Robert De Niro<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series — Jason Sudeikis<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series — Brett Goldstein<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series — Hannah Waddingham<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Morning Show”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series — Jennifer Aniston<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series — Billy Crudup<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lessons in Chemistry”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series — Brie Larson<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon” is set at the turn of the 20th century&comma; when oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation&comma; who became some of the richest people in the world overnight&period; The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers&comma; who manipulated&comma; extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder&period; Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart &lpar;Leonardo DiCaprio&rpar; and Mollie Kyle &lpar;Gladstone&rpar;&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic western crime saga&comma; where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal&period; Also starring De Niro and Jesse Plemons&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Killers of the Flower Moon” is directed by Scorsese from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese&comma; based on David Grann’s bestselling book&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lessons in Chemistry”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Set in the early 1950s&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott &lpar;played by Larson&rpar;&comma; whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society&period; When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab&comma; she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show&comma; and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Morning Show”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Morning Show” explores the cutthroat world of morning news and the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning&period; Along with Witherspoon and Aniston&comma; the star-studded season three ensemble cast is led by Billy Crudup&comma; Mark Duplass&comma; Nestor Carbonell&comma; Karen Pittman&comma; Greta Lee&comma; Jon Hamm&comma; Nicole Beharie and Julianna Margulies&period; In season three&comma; the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA&period; Unexpected alliances form&comma; private truths are weaponized and everyone is forced to confront their core values both in and out of the newsroom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ted Lasso”<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Jason Sudeikis is Ted Lasso&comma; a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England&comma; despite having no experience&period; But what he lacks in knowledge&comma; he makes up for with optimism&comma; underdog determination and biscuits&period; The widely acclaimed series also stars Waddingham&comma; Brendan Hunt&comma; Jeremy Swift&comma; Juno Temple&comma; Goldstein&comma; Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to starring&comma; Sudeikis serves as executive producer&comma; alongside Bill Lawrence via his Doozer Productions&comma; in association with Warner Bros&period; and Universal Television&comma; a division of Universal Studio Group&period; Doozer’s Jeff Ingold also serves as an executive producer&comma; with Liza Katzer as co-executive producer&period; The series was developed by Sudeikis&comma; Lawrence&comma; Hunt and Joe Kelly&comma; and is based on the preexisting format and characters from NBC Sports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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