Lupita Nyong’o wins yet another prestigious award
Actress Lupita Nyong'o accepts the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role award for '12 Years a Slave' onstage during the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 18, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The win catapults her to front-runner status heading into the Academy Awards. PHOTO/Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/AFP
What you need to know:
- She has beaten four seasoned Hollywood actresses in the best supporting actress category.
- The win catapults Lupita to front-runner status heading into the Academy Awards.
- Lupita thanked everyone who believed in her.
Lupita Nyong’o has won yet another prestigious award at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role in “12 Years a Slave” by Steve Mcqueen.
She has beaten four seasoned Hollywood actresses in the best supporting actress category.
Lupita was the first actress to step on the Shrine auditorium podium in Los Angeles, California Saturday night during the annual awards show which honours the best of film and television acting.
She beat Jennifer Lawrence who plays the unstable wife of a con artist in "American Hustler” Julia Roberts, the daughter of a domineering matriarch in “August: Osage County”; June Squibb as the reluctantly supportive wife in “Nebraska”; and Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines, the wife of a presidential butler, in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”
GOOD INDICATOR
The Screen Actors Guild Awards are considered a good indicator of a performer’s Oscar chances.
The win catapults Lupita to front-runner status heading into the Academy Awards.
It also boosts momentum to the run for “12 Years a Slave” film in the Oscars.
On Thursday, the Kenyan actress was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her role in “12 Years a Slave.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominations for the 2014 in California.
Lupita thanked everyone who believed in her.
HIGHEST HONOUR
"Being recognised by your fellow actors is an honour of the highest order," she said as she picked up the trophy for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Steve McQueen," she said
The guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences work together and their membership overlaps.
The Academy’s acting branch is one of its largest voting bodies and this means that a win in the SAG is often a positive indication.
Meryl Streep, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence, Claire Danes, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Michael Fassbender and Steve Buscemi are among Holywood’s big names competing for this year’s acting awards.
The Oscars awards ceremony, which will be hosted by popular American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, will air on March 2, 2014.
