2020 SAG Awards nominations: See the full list of nominees from Joker to Parasite

Fleabag, Game of Thrones, and The Morning Show also received nominations on the TV side.

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Published on December 11, 2019 09:27AM EST

It’s time for actors to celebrate actors once again.

Danai Gurira and America Ferrera announced the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations Wednesday morning, tightening key races between film and television performers amid a particularly contentious awards season.

After a busy eight-day stretch that saw multiple precursor bodies — like the Gotham Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review, American Film Institute, Critics Choice Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Golden Globes — announce their year-end honorees, the SAG Awards further solidified the gilded prospects of high-profile contenders like Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers), Renée Zellweger (Judy), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), and the cast of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which earned a surprise nod for its ensemble.

On top of missing out on a Golden Globe nomination earlier this week, Robert De Niro also failed to receive an individual nomination from SAG, though the group did honor his Irishman ensemble and, as individuals, costars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Also absent from the nominees list are Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems) and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, which was entirely shut out (likely due to SAG’s super early voting schedule).

While those groups have little crossover with the Academy (and, therefore, don’t reflect Oscar taste as much as they predict it), SAG-AFTRA comprises more than 100,000 actor members across the country — several thousand of which make up the group’s annual nominations committee. A large portion of the guild’s membership also crosses over into the Academy’s actors branch (also its largest), so the eventual Oscar nominees are rooted in SAG-AFTRA’s tastes.

Since the SAG Awards’ debut in 1995, 18 lead actresses have won both the SAG Award and the corresponding Oscar; that number jumps to 21 for leading men, including last year’s SAG/Oscar winner, Rami Malek. SAG’s ensemble cast honor sometimes harmonizes with Oscar’s Best Picture nominees as well, with 11 of the SAG Awards’ highest competitive honorees also taking Oscar’s top prize in the same year. Over the years, an additional 12 winners (including last year’s Black Panther) received Best Picture nominations from the Academy, but did not win. Last year, Green Book became only the second Best Picture winner since 1995’s Braveheart to not receive a SAG ensemble nomination, the other being Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 The Shape of Water.

On the television side, SAG honored comedies like Schitt’s Creek and Fleabag, while Apple TV+’s The Morning Show earned a trio of nominations for its debut season. HBO’s Big Little Lies also scored an ensemble nomination despite none of its cast members — not even SAG favorite Meryl Streep — earning an individual nomination.

As previously announced, Robert De Niro — who had recent roles in The Irishman and Joker — is this year’s Life Achievement Award recipient for performative and philanthropic accomplishments across his 54-year career. Leonardo DiCaprio will present De Niro with the accolade at the upcoming SAG Awards ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 19.

Read on for a full list of this year’s SAG Awards nominees.