Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
The Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast 'in a Motion Picture' is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film. It is the final award presented during the ceremony.
Eligibility
In order for an individual actor to be eligible for an award as part of the cast, they must be credited with a single-card billing in the movie's main titles, although exceptions can be made at the discretion of the awards committee in cases of "special, unusual, or non-billing".Trivia
General
- The award was not given at the 1st [Screen Actors Guild Awards].
Films
- The Full Monty, The Lord of the Rings: The [Return of the King], and Parasite are the only winning films not to be nominated in any other category.
- Gosford Park has the largest winning cast.
- Bobby has the largest nominated cast.
- Sideways has the smallest winning cast.
- Million Dollar Baby and Beasts of No Nation have the smallest nominated cast.
- Parasite is the first non-English language film to win the award.
- The Birdcage is the only winning film not to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Braveheart, The Shape of Water, Green Book, and Nomadland are the only films not to be nominated for the award and still go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Out of the 30 winning films, 15 went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture:
- * Shakespeare in Love
- * American Beauty
- * Chicago
- * The Lord of the Rings: [The Return of the King]
- * Crash
- * No Country for Old Men
- * Slumdog Millionaire
- * The King's Speech
- * Argo
- * Birdman
- * Spotlight
- * Parasite
- * CODA
- * Everything Everywhere All at Once
- * Oppenheimer
- Three non-English language films have been nominated:
- * Life Is Beautiful
- * Parasite
- * Emilia Pérez
- Eighteen nominated films were not nominated in any other category:
- * 3:10 to Yuma
- * Babylon
- * Bobby
- * Crazy Rich Asians
- * Don't Look Up
- * The Full Monty
- * Get Shorty
- * Hairspray
- * How to Make an American Quilt
- * Hustle & Flow
- * In America
- * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- * Midnight in Paris
- * Moulin Rouge!
- * My [Big Fat Greek Wedding]
- * Parasite
- * Straight Outta Compton
- * ''Women Talking''
Actors with the most nominations
;8 nominations;7 nominations
;6 nominations
;5 nominations
Note:
- Cate Blanchett has the most consecutive nominations.
- Leonardo DiCaprio has the most nominations without ever winning.
Actors with double nominations in one year
- Ed Harris
- David Paymer
- John C. Reilly
- Meryl Streep
- Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges
- Terrence Howard
- Martin Sheen
- Josh Brolin
- Russell Crowe
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Edward Norton
- Mahershala Ali
- Janelle Monáe
- Lucas Hedges
- Caleb Landry Jones
- Al Pacino
- Margot Robbie
- Chadwick Boseman
- Issa Rae
Actors with multiple wins
;3 wins;2 wins
- Ben Affleck: Shakespeare in Love, Argo
- Alan Arkin: Little Miss Sunshine, Argo
- Christine Baranski: The Birdcage, Chicago
- Don Cheadle: Traffic, Crash
- Colin Firth: Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech
- Michael Gambon: Gosford Park, The King's Speech
- Woody Harrelson: No Country for Old Men, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Derek Jacobi: Gosford Park, The King's Speech
- Allison Janney: American Beauty, The Help
- Kelly Macdonald: Gosford Park, No Country for Old Men
- Ryan Phillippe: Gosford Park, Crash
- Geoffrey Rush: Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech
- Andy Serkis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Black Panther
- Octavia Spencer: The Help, Hidden Figures
- Emma Stone: The Help, Birdman
- Stanley Tucci: Spotlight, Conclave
- Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love
- Catherine Zeta-Jones: Traffic, ''Chicago''