Actor Maisie Williams attends The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / Getty Images
Actor Maisie Williams attends The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / Getty Images
Hollywood's finest TV and movie stars have started walking the red carpet for this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
La La Land may have tied an Oscar record with 14 nominations, set a Golden Globes record with seven wins and won the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, but it won't be competing for the top Screen Actors Guild award.
The SAG Awards often serve as an Academy Awards warm-up.
That will be true in the individual acting categories where awards-season favourites like Viola Davis, Casey Affleck and Emma Stone hope to cement their frontrunner status.
But this year's biggest frontrunner, La La Land, isn't nominated for the Screen Actors' ensemble award. Nominated instead are the casts for Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Hidden Figures and Captain Fantastic.
Lily Tomlin will be the night's lifetime achievement honoree, an award to be presented by Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton. La La Land did earn nods for its leads, Ryan Gosling and Stone. But if Damien Chazelle's musical is to go on to win best picture, it will be the just the second film to do so without a SAG ensemble nod in the category's history. Only Mel Gibson's Braveheart managed it in 1996.
Actors, the largest group in the motion picture academy, hold considerable sway. SAG, though, is much larger, with about 160,000 members, compared to about 1,200 actors in the academy.
On the television side, competing for best ensemble in a drama is The Crown, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and Westworld. Comedy series ensemble nominees are The Big Bang Theory, Black-ish, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black and Veep.
Image 1 of 16: Real-life and on-screen wife and husband Ryan Michelle Bathe and Sterling K. Brown. Picture / AP
Viola Davis rocks in bright white
Viola Davis attends the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / AP
Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her work on Fences, Viola Davis looked primed and ready to take her gong home as she arrived in a crisp white gown.
Big Bang Theory stars are total oppposites
Mayim Bialik - aka - Sheldon's girlfriend Amy, chose to go to the SAGs in bold stripes, but her co-star, Kaley Cuoco, wore a pastel pink to the awards.
The star of The Girl on the Train, who is nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role was snapped in this figure-hugging gown.
John Krasinski, left, and Emily Blunt arrive at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / AP
GoT star rocks up in a black sequined pant suit
Gwendoline Christie, from Game of Thrones, and the face behind Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, arrived in an interesting outfit ... to say the least.
Gwendoline Christie arrives at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Photo / AP
GoT and Westworld stars roll up to the red carpet
Westworld star Ben Barnes and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams were seen looking very cosy.
Actors Ben Barnes and Maisie Williams attend the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / Getty Images
OITNB star flashes the flesh
Jessica Pimentel attends the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / AP
Jessica Pimentel, who portrays Maria Ruiz in Orange Is the New Black, went with a thigh-high split in a barely-there dress on this year's red carpet.
Young star set to make history
She's just 12, but Millie Bobby Brown could make history as the youngest award winner in SAG history. The Stranger Things breakout star faces stiff competition in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series category with Winona Ryder, Claire Foy (The Crown), Thandie Newton (Westworld) and Robin Wright (House of Cards).
Millie Bobby Brown arrives at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Photo / AP
Sophia Bush is pretty in pink
The star of Chicago PD has arrived in a strapless hot pink gown.
The Brits are becoming an increasing threat to Hollywood's stellar acts at these awards. Here, Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery chose to go all out in stripes.
Sterling K. Brown, known for playing Christopher Darden in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, shares an intimate moment before the ceremony.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Gosling, La La Land Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic Denzel Washington, Fences
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Amy Adams, Arrival Emily Blunt, The Girl On The Train Natalie Portman, Jackie Emma Stone, La La Land Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins Lucas Hedges, Manchester By The Sea Dev Patel, Lion
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
The Crown Downton Abbey Game of Thrones Stranger Things Westworld
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish Tituss Burgess, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ty Burrell, Modern Family William H. Macy, Shameless Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is The New Black Jane Fonda, Grace & Frankie Ellie Kemper, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory Black-ish Modern Family Orange Is The New Black Veep
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Riz Ahmed Sterling K. Brown Bryan Cranston John Turturro Courtney B. Vance
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Bryce Dallas Howard Felicity Huffman Audra McDonald Sarah Paulson Kerry Washington
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
