- People of color won all four of SAG's individual film acting awards for the first time ever.
Chadwick Boseman andViola Davis won best male and female actors in leading roles, respectively.Daniel Kaluuya and Youn Yuh-jung won the supporting actors categories.
All four individual film acting awards went to POC at the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards for the first time in the show's history, igniting speculation that this year's Oscars will follow suit.
The pre-recorded 27th annual SAG Awards aired simultaneously on TNT and TBS Sunday night, sharing the results in a significantly condensed one-hour segment.
During the show, Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis' performances in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" earned them wins in the lead male and female film role categories, respectively. And Daniel Kaluuya ("Judas and the Black Messiah") and Youn Yuh-jung ("Minari") took home the male and female supporting role awards.
A representative for the SAG Awards confirmed to Insider that this marks the first time in SAG's history that all four individual acting category wins have gone to POC.
As Insider's Jacob Sarkisian pointed out, many consider the SAG Awards to be the closest predictor of what's to come at the Oscars, which has been postponed to April 25.
There's certainly a chance that the SAG Awards results will repeat themselves at the 93rd annual Academy Awards.
Among the 2021 Oscar nominees, Boseman ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom") is nominated for best actor in a leading role, Davis ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom") is nominated for best actress in a leading role, Kaluuya ("Judas and the Black Messiah") is nominated for best actor in a supporting role, and Yuh-jung is nominated for best actress in a supporting role ("Minari").
Should their victories carry over to the Oscars, Variety's Clayton Davis reported that it would be the most POC to win at a single Oscars ceremony in history.
Before Boseman won his posthumous lead actor award on Sunday evening, he had already made SAG Awards history as the first person to receive four total nominations in movie categories in a single year. Along with being nominated for his lead role in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and in the supporting role category for "Da 5 Bloods," both "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Da 5 Bloods" were also nominated for best ensembles.
The "Black Panther" actor died in August after a secret battle with colon cancer. He was 43. His wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted his SAG Award on Sunday.
"Thank you, God. Thank you, Leroy and Carolyn Boseman," she said, referencing Boseman's parents.
"'If you see the world unbalanced, be a crusader that pushes heavily on the seesaw of the mind,'" she continued. "That's a quote by Chadwick Boseman. Thank you Screen Actors. Thank you, Chad."