I don't know why people always forget this; Julianne Moore was only in Supporting Actress for the Hours because she already had Lead Actress secured with Far From Heaven the same year. It had NOTHING to do with Nicole or screentime or anything else other than a competing role where she was THE LEAD. That's all.

Thank you for selecting Ian McKellen. His Gandalf is a performance for the ages, and it pains me to remember he is still without an Oscar.

Speaking of Kathy Bates, she should have not only been nominated but won for Delores Claiborne.

The SAG winning of Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean still one of my favorites. His performance in that movie is outstanding!

The message I’m taking away from this video is that SAG is just a lot smarter than every other award show

Okay. Now do a video for the top 10 times that Oscar got it right and other awards shows got it wrong.

Thank you for that Ian McKellen mention. I feel like everyone’s performance in LOTR was outstanding but barely anyone was nominated because it was such a huge ensemble.

100% agree with #1!!!!! McKellan was total EPICNESS in LOTR. Now, like you said, if Broadbent had been nominated for and won for Moulin Rouge, that would have aged much better than the forgettable Iris. And the fact that McKellan gave us Gods and Monsters AND LOTR and still has no Oscar to show for it? There must be a conspiracy against him.

Fun Fact: When Denzel won the SAG and lost the Oscar, that actually broke a 12 year streak of the winner of the Best Actor SAG Award winning the Best Actor Oscar.

There really is no right and wrong. Performances are subjective - this year I have more than one "best" in each of the acting categories. Interesting video - thanks for sharing.

Hillary swank in boys dont cry was so powerful. She deserved that oscar. i was so shocked after watching boys dont cry.

Now that you say it, how DID Sean Astin not get a best supporting actor nom for Return of the King?

Casey Affleck did in fact deserve the Oscar for Manchester by the Sea over Denzel Washington for Fences because Affleck's character had the challenges and difficulties of what his character went through, Washington's perfromance in Fences is a strong one but, it might have been a little too theatrical and a little too much Denzel.

Hoping for the Ian Mckellen and the elusive Oscar video now 🤞

Thanks! I've been saying for ages that Russell Crowe should have won for A Beautiful Mind, not Gladiator. So glad someone else feel the same.

Sorry to be so shallow but wow, Russell Crowe looked damn good during his beautiful mind awards season 😂

I will NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY Mark Rylance won that Oscar. He didn't do anything in Bridge of Spies. I wouldn't even call it a subtle performance. There was just nothing there. What did he actually win for?

You should 100% do a video on the supporting actor race in 2016. I never really understood why Stallone didn't win. Also I don't know how Idris Elba has never been nominated at the Oscars. There is definitely a lot to talk about with this race.

For me, Glenn Close winning in SAG over Olivia Colman is my favorite. She was indeed impeccable and I think Glenn failed to win Oscar because it was a smaller film unlike The Favorite. To me, Rachel Weisz should be the Lead in that film because and Colman should be supporting. I really think SAG got this right by awarding Glenn Close for The Wife.

I’m still sooo sad about Stallone. My heart broke for him in that moment. I remember feeling like that was his last shot. But maybe it won’t be 🤷🏾‍♂️

Idris Elba would always be Stringer Bell to me because The Wire was the first thing i have seen him. Was shocked to find later on he's British.

Ed Harris and the Elusive Oscar video?

Brian, thanks so much for your excellent commentary. I agree with your choices, especially about Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind," Viola Davis in "The Help" and Ed Harris in "Apollo 13." Keep up your great professional work. You are the gold standard in KZfaq movie critics. No one even comes close to your professionalism, enthusiasm, and demeanor.

Casey Affleck's Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea is by far in the conversation of the most deserving Best Actor Winners we've gotten in the 21st Century. It's right up there with Daniel Day Lewis for There Will Be Blood, Anthony Hopkins for The Father, and Jamie Fox for Ray. Yes, the competition between him and Denzel Washington was one of the tightest Best Actor races we've seen in ages. Washington showcasing a side of him in Fences we don't get to see him play. Creating a stubborn and tragic character who's so irresistible to watch, you can't keep your eyes off the screen. But Washington has had plenty of memorable parts in his career, especially in Malcom X, which was his once in a lifetime part in 1992. So in the year of 2016, that's exactly what happened to Casey Affleck. Winning for a role that was right fit for Affleck's ability as an actor. Delivering a more grounded and subtle performance, delivering an emotionally unstable character that you keep on guessing and guessing whether he's going to be okay or not by the end. Playing a much more tragic character, whose emotional mindset and reactions tell us so much, you're lost for words for the emotional and psychology state he's in.

YES YES YES SIR IAN McKELLEN I know you would do it. LOVE YOU BRIAN!!!!!!!

Thank you for the Betty Bacall shoutout! I’m still mad she lost her last shot at an Oscar. Such an amazing actress

Russell Crowe should have got the Oscars - the best performance of year by far - was totally political. He was acting bratty in lead up and that with reluctance to give back 2 back, was enough to skew it to Washington. He messed it up for himself unfortunately.

Eddie Murphy was Robbed for his Oscar

Ian McKellen definitely should have won the Oscar such an incredible performance. What a miss

Casey absolutely deserved that Oscar. He should have won SAG too because his performance in Manchester by the Sea is amazing. I'm conflicted on Bening vs Swank Round 1. I really like both of Swank's Oscar wins but it is so sad that Annette Bening doesn't have an Oscar by now. So in hindsight maybe it would have been good if she won for American Beauty. Taking Swank's first Oscar away though sucks since that role was so transformative and groundbreaking for its time considering the subject matter. Maybe Annette could have won in Bening vs Swank Round 2. I've never seen Being Julia but Million Dollar Baby is amazing and of course won a lot of Oscars that year (including Best Picture) so it would be hard to deny her since she was the only lead performance. Whereas when Annette lost for American Beauty they gave Spacey Best Actor among a ton of other Oscars like Best Director and Best Picture. I agree with your top choice for sure btw.

Just missing Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean 1. But great list as always.

I thought you gonna pick Glenn Close in 2019’s at the number 1, Brian. 🤣

The year Meryl won at SAG for Doubt but lost to Winslet for The Reader at the Oscars (Winslet was nominated for Revolutionary Road at SAG) stands out to me. I think Meryl was fantastic (is she ever not?) as Sister Beauvier.

Johnny Depp is so good in Pirates, yet I don't think it's even a top 3 performance of his. Goes to show how talented the man is.

18:05 I’d love to see you covering the 2016 Best Supporting Actor race!

Please cover that 2016 best supporting actor race, I would love to see that!

I think you are right all around, and Ed Harris still without an Oscar, do you believe me if I tell you I think about it every time I see Ed Harris in a movie. This video was truly enjoyable and enlightening. Thank you so much for it.

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

I was so thrilled seeing Ian as your #1.

The academy didn't like netflix movies back in the day. Beast of no nation was such a shocking film. So raw and original

Can u do a vid where the sags got it right & the oscars too ?

Russell Crowe ruined his chances of a win with his behaviour backstage at BAFTA. Washington was the solid, less problematic choice

Gienn Close winning the SAG for The Wife should have won The Oscar over Olivia Coleman in 2019

I always thought Kidman was Best Actress in The Hours because she's the central figure, like Brando in The Godfather. I agree about Bening in American Beauty except for the impact of the Boys Don't Cry win for L+ reasons. I remember feeling when she won for that that the L+ community had been legitimized in a way like never before

I don’t know, Denzel’s win for Training Day is one of the most out-of-the-box, downright coolest wins in the Lead Actor category in my opinion. No one else could bring the charisma and sense of false bravado he brings to that iconic performance of Alonzo.

Denzel is my favorite actor of aot but casey affleck in manchester by the sea is the better perfomance by FAR

I think Denzel winning for Fences was in part giving him an award when he never got a SAG award. Casey Affleck deserved the Oscar for Manchester by the Sea and I think should have swept the entire award season and got the SAG award as well. That’s not to say Denzel was bad in Fences, because he wasn’t, but I do think him not having a SAG award was a factor in him winning that year over Affleck, who was dominating the award season with his incredible performance.

The Help is so problematic, I'm sure Viola Davis is relieved she didn't win for that movie.

Great video

Like Polls, a win can be a snapshot of the temperature of the voting body. Sure, in retrospect it is easy to judge performances because they exist in a vacuum - of film. What we tend to forget are the campaigns - both positive and negative that influence. The momentum or fatigue attached to frontrunners. The prevailing zeitgeist, or political climate. The particular headspace of the Academy during a specific Oscar race.

Now do “Top 10 Times the DGA got it right”

You can never make me hate Dench in SIL. Everyone reduces it to screentime and never really acknowledge what she did with her eight minutes. In both of her major scenes, she nearly erases everyone else in the room. Beyond commanding. She fully deserved.

I agree about Crowe , Harris, Bening , Elba and Davis. My favorite the year Kidman won would be Salma Hayek. Not really a fan though of The Usual Suspects. I definitely don’t have a problem with Swank in Boys Don’t Cry but loved Bening’s performance in American Beauty. Streep in any number of roles would have made for a better win than The Iron Lady. Davis is more iconic in The Help . My favorite performances in The Hours are actually Streep and Harris.

Kathy Bates was amazing in Primary Colors - Meryl Streep should have won for "Bridges of Madison County", "Doubt", or "The Devil Wears Prada", and not "The Queen"

I think Gillian Anderson did a much better job portraying Margret Thatcher in The Crown than Merrel Streep's performance in The Iron Lady.

Disagree with Benning. Swank was better i thought she better win the Oscar when i watched the film. I liked American Beauty when it first came out, then on a re-watch. i thought this movie wasn't as good.

Definitely agree on idris Elba SAG win that 2016 race were the Oscars did everything in their power to avoid giving POC actors/actresses/filmmakers like not only idris but the cast of straight outta Compton, Michael b Jordan for creed, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and mya Taylor for Tangerine, Abraham Attah for beasts of no nation, and will smith in concussion

I would've loved a Stallone win! 😊❤

TOTALLY agree with you on Annette Benning in American Beauty. I thought she did a better job than Kevin Spacey. And I think I'm in a minority, but I didn't care for Casey Affleck in MbtS. He was moody. Every scene was him brooding. Ugh.

Crowe should've won for ABM. Denzel should've won best actor for Malcom X. Heck yes where is Ed Harris' oscar?

Mark Rylance is one of my favorite performances of all time and I love Bridge of Spies. So I'm all about that win at the Oscars. I feel Denzel's performance in Fences was not incredibly unique compared to what Casey Affleck was tasked with pulling off. Though I think both Washington and Affleck were arguably upstaged by their female co-star. Viola Davis and Michelle Williams, respectively. Oh and I'm also not a fan of The Usual Suspects. But most Oscar nominated performances are for movies I don't care for.

Please cover the 2015 Best Supporting Actor race! I have always been curious about that one!

No one liked that Cold Mountain win. Still don't understand what she thought she was doing

Kathy bates nomination for Richard jewell was very left field. The academy didn't just want to nominate jlo for hustlers.

Glenn Close for The Wife.

Nicole Kidman did not deserve the Oscar for The Hours. That should have gone to either Renée Zellweger for Chicago or Julianne Moore for Far from Heaven.

My least favorite Oscar win is Nicole Kidman for The Hours. Renee Zellewegger should have won for Chicago.

I agree with you crowe should've won the oscar

Great top 10, Brian! It's still criminal that Ian McKellen never won for Gods & Monsters or in Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. And yes for Viola Davis! She should have won for both The Help & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (which she also won the SAG for. I was rooting for her or Carey Mulligan to win in 2021 instead of Frances). And Idris Elba was incredible for Beasts Of No Nation, he should have at least gotten the Oscar nomination. Also agree on Denzel Washington, I thought his work in Fences was much more powerful than Casey Affleck in Manchester By The Sea and it would have been great to see him win the Oscar that year.

Kidman VS Zellwegger video, please!

My Oscars Sophie’s Choice will always be Swank vs Bening’s first round. Should have been a tie imho.

Meryl deserves to have a 3rd oscar but not for the iron lady. She should have won for doubt instead

Washington definitely should have won for Fences.

I thought you weren’t mentioning people like Ibris Elba since he didn’t get the Oscar’s nomination.

This year, it’s going to be Paul Giamatti for best actor in “The Holdovers”.

Brother please, as much as i love ed harris in the truman show, no one deserved the win over coburn for affliction. That is one of the best supporting performances in the last 30 years

I agree with you on Washington and Affleck.

The SAGs got it right on awarding Ian McKellen for the first Lord of the Rings Movie. The BAFTAs got a couple of categories right when it comes to that movie unlike the Oscars. The BAFTAs awarded Peter Jackson Best Director for the first Lord of the Rings movie and awarded the first Lord of the Rings film Best Picture. A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture and Best Director instead which are very safe choices. I think Apollo 13 is the Ron Howard movie more deserving of winning Best Picture and Best Director than A Beautiful Mind.

Wait. Why does Idris Elba count for this list? You say that Blunt was ineligible, but Elba wasn't even nominated at the Oscars.

I've been meaning to watch Richard Jewell for years

The way you said JIM BROADBENT lmao.

SAG Awards are just better than the oscars #FACT

Nominating Evan Rachel Wood for 13 they got it right

I completely disagree with you on Juliette Binoche/Lauren Bacall situation. Binoche’s win is actually one of the all timers Oscar win for me. So much well deserved, so shocking. Her performance was one of the things that kept me coming back and thinking about the English Patient. What a heartbreaking and courageous performance! That Binoche/Bacall should’ve been in your « when Academy Awards got it right » video 😉.

Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction

Question: Isn't voting for the Oscar's already closed when the SAG awards are announced?

thank u for mentioning miss Zellweger and the great miss Bacall they're were going as frontrunner to that OCSAR, but something happened, and i do think that HARVEY WEINSTEIN has so much to do with their loses, Harvey loved RENEE but his company made sure to promote for Nicole soooo hard to get that win, also i don't know what happened to the members when they founded that such a great classic actress like lauren gives such a modern and heartfelt and memorable turn but they didn't go for her

Can you make a most dominant win (sweeps) in the history of award seasons ?

I can’t wait for your Oscar retrospective on Mark Rylance vs. Sylvester Stallone (and Idris Elba) for the Best Supporting Actor!

Casey Affleck's Manchester by the sea is one of the best pieces of acting I've ever seen, an absolutely devastating performance

I just wanted to correct you on Ed Harris he won the Globe,Duvall in A Civil Action won the SAG award in 1998.

The Academy just loves to give the award to someone who plays a historical figure or just a living person as in Julia Roberts playing Erin Brokavich.

Wasnt the English patient from Mirimax?

I completely disagree with your reasoning when it comes to Viola Davis vs Meryl Streep. I don't think that a performance should be judged in the context of the film itself. Actors should be judged on their performance, not how great the film itself is. The Iron Lady is a terrible film but Meryl Streep rises above all that to give an incredible performance. The Help is a very good film and frankly I don't think Viola Davis's contribution to that is any more than the rest of the cast. Her character doesn't really do much or have any big emotional moments (she herself has said this) and frankly there are several actors who could have pulled that part off. All that to say, constantly highlighting that Help was an overall better movie does not mean that Viola gave the superior performance. She didn't.

YES THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING IAN MCKELLAN FOR NO1!!!!!

Ugh Hillary Swank did not deserve any of her Oscars

Casey Affleck winning over Denzel is insane. His nomination should have been his win

Meryl Streep in the Iron Lady was still the most deserving to attain the Oscar trophy IMO. Her performance was absolutely terrific. It is unfair to discredit her just because the film itself wasn't as good. Viola on the other hand, gave largely the same kind of performances in Doubt, The Help, Fences...

Did the SAG trophy change from when Lauren Bacall won in 1997?

The Iron Lady was a poor win