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Oscar boost for Room as Brie Larson wins Screen Actors Guild award

The US actress described her young co-star Jacob Tremblay as “my inspiration”.

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Show - Los Angeles Brie Larson presents an award alongside her Room co-star Jacob Tremblay. Associated Press Associated Press

THE IRISH-DIRECTED Room received a major boost overnight as Brie Larson picked up the best actress award for her role in the movie at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

The American actress described her young co-star Jacob Tremblay as “my inspiration” in her speech. She also thanked director Lenny Abrahamson and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, who adapted the script from her own novel.

Larson is also Oscar-nominated for Room, which is in the running for a total of four awards ahead of the 28 February ceremony.

Abrahamson is also up for Best Director, Donoghue is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay – and the movie’s also in the running for Best Film.

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Show - Los Angeles Associated Press Associated Press

Spotlight, a drama about sexual abuse in the Catholic church in Boston, won the top prize at the awards, landing the gong for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.

The ceremony also saw black actors score major wins.

The awards, seen as a bellwether of the Oscars, were being closely watched amid the controversy over the lack of diversity in this year’s list of nominees.

Leonardo DiCaprio won the best actor prize for The Revenant, while Idris Elba scooped two awards – one for best supporting actor for Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation, and one for best actor in a TV series for his role as a detective in Luther.

Diversity

“Welcome to diverse TV,” joked Elba, who was passed over for an Oscar nomination, as he presented an award during the ceremony at LA’s Shrine Auditorium.

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Uzo Aduba took home the award for outstanding actress in a comedy series for her role as Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren in Netflix’s prison comedy-drama Orange is the New Black. The TV series also won for the second consecutive year for best comedy ensemble.

“Look at this stage, this is what we talk about when we talk about diversity – different race, color, creed, sexual orientation,” actress Laura Prepon, who plays Alex Vause in the series, told the audience, referring to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

Viola Davis meanwhile won best actress for legal drama series How to Get Away With Murder, while Queen Latifah won for outstanding actress in a television movie or miniseries for her role in HBO’s Bessie, a biopic of the blues singer Bessie Smith.

“We’ve become a society of trending topics,” Davis told reporters backstage after her win.

Includes reporting from AFP. 

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    Mute Aurelio Na Fodhla
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    Jun 30th 2022, 6:55 AM

    It’s like a repeat of a bad dream I had…

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    Jun 30th 2022, 9:01 AM

    @Aurelio Na Fodhla: Leo will be quoting movies again. Zoom parties will be had. Tony will get the band back together. Curves will be flattened and sourdough baked.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 8:01 AM

    Will it ever go away? I’m so over it. No one’s even listening to advice anymore, it’s just us all sort of winging it. I’m going for jab no. 4. How many others are? Just curious.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 8:24 AM

    @Anna Carr: I have had four jabs, was following mask protocols, and as far as I know I’ve never had Covid.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 9:28 AM

    @The Ghost of Dublin: I’ve done the same but I got covid…. Very mild…. Still going for number 4 though

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    Mute Michael McGrath
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    Jun 30th 2022, 2:06 PM

    @Anna Carr: Are you not starting to question the fact that you need 4 injections of the one “vaccine” in little over 12 months and still got covid anyway. If your healthy the likelyhood is you would only have got a mild dose of covid in any case. This putting down to only getting a mild dose of covid because your vaccinated is ridiculous when the vast majority of cases are mild anyway vaccinated or not(this is not having a go at you personally it’s the narrative that’s being put out constantly in the media) . Now if you are in anyway immunocompromised I stand corrected and apologise.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 4:00 PM

    @Michael McGrath: I’d still say that anything we do to reduce exposure is healthy. I’ve heard several people who were runners before and can barely get around the house now. The less viral load the better.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 4:41 PM

    @Fiona Fitzgerald: So your in agreement that we continue taking injections every three months can’t see it happening tbh and the infrastructure just isn’t there to do it, it’s not even really there to do it every twelve months. Since the EUCDC is saying its not worth a jot against the new strains what’s the point

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    Jun 30th 2022, 9:02 AM

    Really annoyed as my daughter had to ring the Coombe maternity hospital after contacting Covid to find out that pregnant women with covid are at risk of blood clots and need to be put on blood thinners as a precaution. Why is this not mentioned anywhere ????

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    Mute Anna Carr
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    Jun 30th 2022, 9:30 AM

    @Brendan Odonnell: wow I had no idea of this. I hope everything goes well for your daughter and impending grandchild.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 11:54 AM

    @Anna Carr: thanks and please God all goes well for them both. It affects those under 26 weeks and so mad that she had to ring after a neighbour mentioned it to her in passing. Thanks once again

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    Jun 30th 2022, 12:12 PM

    @Brendan Odonnell: Not sure if this is possibly just isolated to your daughter or the coombe now maybe have introduced this. I caught covid at 7weeks, and I was under the Coombe and did ask about blood thinners and they said no. They will monitor more closely towards the end however! I hope she keeps well!!

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    Jun 30th 2022, 10:48 AM

    I’m sorry I barely got past the first line … “as we head into the summer months” …. It’s nearly July and not even a hint of summer yet!

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    Jun 30th 2022, 7:59 AM

    Seriously…bloody isolate then go from there.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 8:38 AM

    @Damien Leen: Just drive on. No more than a bad cold now. Rate of rising prices, petrol and mortgages no one will be able to afford stay home from work.

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    Jun 30th 2022, 8:40 AM

    @Dave Barrett: A bad cold for some but not all. And why even put up with a bad cold of it can be avoided

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    Jun 30th 2022, 9:14 PM

    @Dave Barrett: When did a bad cold ever lead to such high absenteeism in summer months?

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    Jun 30th 2022, 1:25 PM

    Given that we are now literally at the height of ‘summer’ where are all those who claimed Covid was purely a seasonal virus?

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