The entire deep-souled, high-rent cast of Joachim Trier‘s Sentimental Value (Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) has been blown off by SAG members in their balloting for the 2026 Actor Awards (previously the SAG Awards).
Reinsve is easily among the top two or three contenders for the Best Actress Oscar; ditto Skarsgard for Best Supporting Actor.
Not a single foreign-language performer was nominated this morning….huge, across-the-board snub.
SAG started to become an increasingly low-rent organization in 2012, when it merged with AFTRA. That’s when the mongrel factor suddenly began to permeate everything.
The bottom line is that the tastes and preferences of SAG-AFTRA members have devolved to the level of the People’s Choice Awards, and they just don’t get it. To paraphrase Hal Holbrook‘s Deep Throat, “The truth is that the typical SAG-AFTRA member these days isn’t all that hip and certainly not very sophisticated, and things have just gotten out of hand.”
Other SAG-AFTRA blow-offs include Wicked: For Good‘s Cynthia Erivo (yes!), The Secret Agent‘s Wagner Moura and Jay Kelly‘s Adam Sandler.