The late Chadwick Boseman looks like even more of an Oscar lock and "The Trial of the Chicago 7" won the biggest prize during a historic night for film actors of color at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama "Chicago 7" won best ensemble cast in a motion picture, while "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" co-stars Boseman and Viola Davis snagged best lead actor honors at the SAG Awards. For the first time, actors of color swept all four individual film categories.
Boseman's widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, quoted her husband when accepting his award: “If you see the world unbalanced, be a crusader that pushes heavily on the seesaw of the mind.”
In addition, Daniel Kaluuya won best supporting actor for "Judas and the Black Messiah" and Yuh-jung Youn earned supporting actress for "Minari," becoming the first Asian winner of an individual SAG acting award for a movie.
"This one's for Chadwick Boseman and this one's for Fred Hampton," Kaluuya said in his acceptance speech honoring the "Da 5 Bloods" actor he was competing against, as well as Kaluuya's role as Hampton, the real-life Illinois Black Panther chairman he portrays in "Black Messiah."
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