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Actor Awards (SAG) 2016 Winners & Nominees

The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016) took place on January 30, 2016. Spotlight won Outstanding Cast. Every winner and nominee in all 6 categories is below.

All 6 categories Most wins
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Outstanding Cast
Spotlight
Headline winners

Actor Awards (SAG) 2016: The Winners

Spotlight won Outstanding Cast against 4 other nominees. Leonardo DiCaprio (Outstanding Leading Male Actor), Brie Larson (Outstanding Leading Female Actor) and Idris Elba (Outstanding Supporting Male Actor) took the main individual prizes.

Spotlight (2015) movie poster Outstanding Cast

Outstanding Cast

Spotlight

2015 · Biography, Drama, History · $98.7M worldwide

1 win from 2 nominations at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016)

A team of investigative journalists at The Boston Globe, known as Spotlight, embarks on a courageous quest to expose a disturbing pattern of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Their meticulous reporting uncovers a decades-long cover-up, revealing how institutional failings allowed predators to act with impunity. The story’s revelations shake the foundations of the Church and have far-reaching consequences, sparking a global reckoning and challenging the abuse of power.

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Scoreboard

Actor Awards (SAG) 2016: Which Films Won the Most

No film won more than one award: 6 films won one category each. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Room (2015) movie poster
    Room 1 / 2
    2015 · Drama · 1 win from 2 nominations
  2. Beasts of No Nation (2015) movie poster
    Beasts of No Nation 1 / 2
    2015 · Drama, War · 1 win from 2 nominations
  3. The Danish Girl (2015) movie poster
    The Danish Girl 1 / 2
    2015 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 2 nominations
  4. Spotlight (2015) movie poster
    Spotlight 1 / 2
    2015 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 2 nominations
  5. The Revenant (2015) movie poster
    The Revenant 1 / 1
    2015 · Adventure, Drama · 1 win from 1 nomination
  6. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) movie poster
    Mad Max: Fury Road 1 / 1
    2015 · Action, Adventure · 1 win from 1 nomination
  7. Trumbo (2015) movie poster
    Trumbo 0 / 3
    2015 · Biography, Drama · 0 wins from 3 nominations
  8. Steve Jobs (2015) movie poster
    Steve Jobs 0 / 2
    2015 · Biography, Drama · 0 wins from 2 nominations
  9. The Big Short (2015) movie poster
    The Big Short 0 / 2
    2015 · Biography, Drama · 0 wins from 2 nominations
  10. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) movie poster
    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 0 / 1
    2018 · Action, Adventure · 0 wins from 1 nomination
Full results

All 6 Actor Awards (SAG) 2016 Categories: Winners & Nominees

6 categories and 26 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

6 categories · 26 nominations

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Actor Awards (SAG) 2016 Outstanding Leading Female Actor

Official name: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

1 nominee
By genre

The Genres Behind the Actor Awards (SAG) 2016 Winners

Drama led with 22 nominations across 14 films and won 5. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 5 wins · 22 nominations · 23%
  2. Biography 2 wins · 15 nominations · 13%
  3. Thriller 3 wins · 9 nominations · 33%
  4. Adventure 2 wins · 6 nominations · 33%
  5. Action 1 win · 5 nominations · 20%
  6. History 1 win · 4 nominations · 25%
  7. Romance 1 win · 3 nominations · 33%
  8. War 1 win · 2 nominations · 50%
  9. Sci-Fi 1 win · 2 nominations · 50%
  10. Crime 0 wins · 2 nominations · 0%
2016 season

How the Rest of the 2016 Awards Season Voted

The other 13 ceremonies of 2016, with the winner of each top prize. Spotlight also won the top prize at 2 of them. The Revenant won the most of them: 3.

All 2016 awards
Earlier years

Previous Actor Awards (SAG) Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Actor Awards (SAG) page has every year back to 1995.

Every Actor Awards (SAG) ceremony

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Actor Awards (SAG) 2016: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Outstanding Cast at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016)?

Spotlight (2015) won Outstanding Cast. The other nominees were Beasts of No Nation, The Big Short, Straight Outta Compton and Trumbo.

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Which film had the most nominations at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016)?

Trumbo (2015) led with 3 nominations and won none of them.

Who won the acting awards at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016)?

Outstanding Leading Male Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant. Outstanding Leading Female Actor: Brie Larson for Room. Outstanding Supporting Male Actor: Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation. Outstanding Supporting Female Actor: Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl.

When was the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016)?

The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016) took place on January 30, 2016. The database has 6 categories and 26 nominations for it.