While BAFTA Let Her Down, Lily Gladstone’s SAG Awards Win Can Finally Break a Longstanding Oscars Curse
With the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards on the 25th of February coming to an end, there were quite a few wins that we all knew were well deserved and would happen, and some that were deserved but were in limbo. Among the uncertain ones, Lily Gladstone managed to win an award in the Best Female Actor in a Leading Role category.
Winning this prestigious award for her stellar performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the actress not only reached a career milestone but also managed to make history as the first indigenous actor to do so in history. And now, seeing this accolade associated with her name, many think she might become the first indigenous actor to bag an Oscar in the upcoming award ceremony.
Lily Gladstone Wins Best Actress Award At The 2024 SAG Awards
It’s always a special moment when an actor or actress makes history with their performances in films to match the greatness, which is something that Lily Gladstone has managed to achieve with her role as Mollie Burkhart in the Crime/Drama film Killers of the Flower Moon by the legendary Martin Scorsese. So naturally, she was recently chosen to hold the award for Best Actress by the Screen Actors Guild.
On the day of the 2024 SAG Awards, The Last Manhunt actress managed to make history when she was announced as the winner of Best Actress in a Leading Role category and requested to take the stage and address her win. This was an iconic moment as she became the first Native American actor to win this award. As she accepted her award, she said (via The Hollywood Reporter):
“I feel the good in what you have done, what you do, This has been a hard year for all of us. Those in this room, those not in this room. The win is getting to be here. It’s getting to be on set. It’s getting to tell stories, 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.”
This historical moment may just spread wider than this event, where she might go on to win her first Academy Award soon.
How Gladstone Winning The Oscar Will Create History
After becoming the first indigenous actor to win a SAG Award, the possibility of the actress winning the Oscar for the same category is higher than ever.
At the moment, the actress is in a neck-to-neck race with Emma Stone for the most likely to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role category, and if Gladstone bags the victory, then she’ll become the first actor of Native American descent to win an Oscar in their career, making a monumental moment in cinema’s history and break a streak of indigenous actors not receiving this aspirational award.
Killers of the Flower Moon, streaming on Apple TV+.
