Celebrity superlatives: The 2017 SAG Awards edition

USA TODAY’s Jaleesa Jones digs through the latest celebrity news for highlights ... and lowlights. Think high school yearbook superlatives — if Winona Ryder and Mahershala Ali were classmates.

Funniest presenter: Dolly Parton

Parton is quite the comedian outside of her 9 to 5.

The singer-actress presented her friend and former co-star Lily Tomlin with the Life Achievement Award during Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards but made sure to get a few jokes off her chest first. "My goodness, look at this room, all these special people,” she observed from the stage. “I almost didn’t get in. Seriously I didn’t. They kept wanting to see my IDs. Well I think it was IDs. Maybe it was double Ds.”

“Jane (Fonda) and Lily are not my only two famous girlfriends,” she added to laughter from the crowd. "I might say that Lily is receiving an award I’ve spent my whole life trying to avoid. SAG award? If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’m gonna call Dr. Markowitz to get that nipped up and sucked right away."

The best jokes from Lily Tomlin's SAG speech (and Dolly Parton's intro)

Best dressed: Taraji P. Henson

So much for Hidden Figures.  

Henson worked hers on the red carpet for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she donned a sheer Reem Acra gown with strategically placed beads. The Hidden Figures co-star complemented the dramatic ball gown with diamond studs and two diamond rings, looking as regal as ever and, apparently, feeling it too. “I feel like a Barbie doll,” she joked on the red carpet. “That kind of dress, you have to prepare yourself mentally.”

SAG Awards: The 10 best dressed

Most likely to become a meme: Winona Ryder

Ryder isn’t one to hide her emotions, especially when Stranger Things are happening around her.

The actress’ face contorted into a series of puzzled expressions as her Stranger Things co-star David Harbour delivered a fiery speech about inclusion and activism while the cast accepted the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble in a drama. Though Harbour said backstage that he missed all of Ryder’s expressions, the Internet did not, with users quickly capitalizing on the moment with countless GIFs and memes.

See all of Winona Ryder's wild facial expressions at the SAG Awards

Most likely to start a revolution: The Stranger Things cast

Winona Ryder may not have been forewarned about co-star David Harbour’s Screen Actors Guild Awards acceptance speech, but the rest of the Stranger Things cast was — and they were all down for Harbour’s spirited call to action.

“We will hunt monsters and when we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized,” Harbour, who plays Hopper on the show, confirmed to the crowd. “And we will do it all with soul, with heart, and with joy.”

The reaction from his co-stars? Confirmatory cheers and hugs.

Most likely to inspire:Mahershala Ali 

Forget the Moonlight. Ali used his platform at the Screen Actors Guild Awards to cast a spotlight on the current sociopolitical climate.

Taking the stage to accept the award for best supporting male actor, the Moonlight star tacitly referenced President Trump’s hotly-contested immigration ban, offering his thoughts on the implications of persecuting groups of people. "I think what I've learned from working on Moonlight is we see what happens when you persecute people," he said. "They fold into themselves, and what I was so grateful about in having the opportunity to play Juan was playing a gentleman. I saw a young man folding into himself as a result of the persecution of his community and (took) that opportunity to uplift him and tell him that he mattered, that he was OK, and accept him. And I hope that we do a better job of that.”

Mahershala Ali delivers moving speech about acceptance at SAG Awards

"When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae — the details that make us all different — I think there's two ways of seeing that," Ali continued. "There's an opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique, and then there's an opportunity to go to war about it and say, 'That that person's different from me,' and 'I don't like you. So, let's battle.'

Ali expressed his hope that we would choose the former and then wished “peace and blessings” for the audience.