Famously, the SAGs have been a poor predictor of Oscar glory in the Best Picture/Best Ensemble category. The awards are slightly different, as the Oscars reward a picture in its entirety, from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera, whereas the SAGs focus solely on acting.

Movies like La La Land weren’t even nominated for the SAG Best Ensemble award, while later picking up Oscar nominations, and films like Hidden Pictures won at the SAGs but lost out at the Oscars. Last year, The Shape of Water missed out on a nomination for Best Ensemble at the SAGs, but ended up winning the top prize at the Oscars.

This year’s Oscar race is one of the most fraught in recent memory, without anything even approaching a frontrunner among the Best Picture nominees. A Star Is Born started with momentum but has fizzled out, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book are both shrouded in controversy, and there doesn’t seem to be enough buzz behind The Favourite, Vice or BlacKkKlansman. At this stage, just a month out from the ceremony, the Oscars’ top prize is very much up for grabs.

Without getting too inside baseball, the Oscars decide their winners through a preferential ballot, which means that a movie that is universally liked - as Black Panther is - could sneak in to win the whole thing if it receives enough second or third place votes in a year. And, if today’s SAG Awards win says anything, it’s that Black Panther is definitely universally liked.

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