Lily Gladstone Makes History With Best Outstanding Performance SAG Award Win
Killers of the Flower Moon actress Lily Gladstone made history this weekend by winning Best Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the SAG Awards.
The Screen Actor’s Guild hosted its award show on February 24, and there was much anticipation in the lead-up to the event over who would win the award for Best Performance in a Leading Role for both the male and female categories. Gladstone was nominated along with fellow actresses Emma Stone, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan, and Margot Robbie, with the Killers of the Flower Moon star ultimately winning the award.
Lily Gladstone wins Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role at the #SAGAwards for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ pic.twitter.com/rIjKQoTQs6
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She is the first Indigenous actress to ever receive the award. This is the second historical win for the Certain Women actress this year, as she also previously became the first Indigenous performer to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.
In Killers of the Flower Moon, the actress portrays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose community faces murder at the hands of greed-fueled white men seeking control of valuable oil. To have an Indigenous actress win this award, especially for a role in a film that explores atrocities committed against Native people so explicitly, is a groundbreaking and severely overdue step toward representation in Hollywood.
lily gladstone and her sag <3 pic.twitter.com/KBZTpcdbuu
— emma stone's manager (@emmarstones) February 25, 2024
In her acceptance speech, the winner praises her fellow actors for working hard to bring stories to life that uplift people and provide voices. She shares, “We bring empathy into a world that so much needs it. It’s so easy to distance ourselves. It’s so easy to close off. To stop feeling. And we all bravely keep feeling. And that humanizes people. That brings people out of the shadows. It brings visibility.”
Can we please acknowledge how happy Emma Stone was for Lily Gladstone? My heart is so full right now. pic.twitter.com/JgcVkoqCxR
— shubhayan bose (@shubhayanbose) February 25, 2024
Despite her loss at the event, Poor Things actress Emma Stone was seen excitedly cheering on Gladstone for her win. The two stars are set to go head-to-head once again with their upcoming nominations for the Academy Awards, and many fans wonder if Gladstone’s victory at the event could be an indication of what’s to come. If the Blackfoot actress does win the award for Actress in a Leading Role, she would be the first Native American to ever receive an Academy Award for acting.
Lily Gladstone has made history as first Indigenous performer to win Best Actress at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Will she make history at the #Oscars next? #Oscars2024 #FYC #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon #BestActress #SAG #FilmTwitter pic.twitter.com/an1UHJRujk
— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) February 25, 2024
Viewers can support Gladstone by watching her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. Martin Scorsese’s western crime drama can be streamed on Apple TV+. Check out her acceptance speech below.
