Darren Criss completed his clean sweep, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award tonight for Outstanding Actor in a miniseries or television movie for his performance as Andrew Cunanan in FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
The win comes after accepting an Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards for the same role.
“I find it appropriate that this statuette is sort of choosing between which masks to use, and the character that I played, Andrew Cunanan, unfortunately, used masks to destroy things,” EW reported him saying after receiving the award. “So as an actor, my goal is to hopefully create something positive, to use masks to create a positive change. So for all of the friends and families that are still affected by the destruction that he wrought, I hope that they know our goal was not to make a spectacle of their tragedy, but to create a positive dialogue about social issues and bring to justice things that were in the shadows.”
E reports he called the award “a high that will last a lifetime.”
Sandra Oh repeated her Golden Globe and Critics Choice awardw for best actress in a drama series for her role as Eve Polastri in BBC’s Killing Eve.
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She thanked the many actors over the years, many African Americans, who have given her encouragement throughout her career.
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“I celebrate my fellow nominees…all the fellow creative dreamers and actors — I have felt your support so tremendously. I want to thank Alfre Woodard-in 1997 she whispered in my ear I’m so proud of you out there. We fight the same fight . Jamie Fox pulled me aside in 2006 and said ‘keep going and in 2017 Lena Waithe (Master of None), she just embraced me and said you already won. It’s in the work.”
Crazy Rich Asians received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, but loss to Black Panther.
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