Chadwick Boseman Honored at SAG Awards

The 27th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, which honor some of the year's best performances in film and television, kicked off Sunday evening.

The ceremony was pre-recorded and edited down to a one-hour special. Roughly 160,000 members in the guild honored the late Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Yuh-Jung Youn, and the cast of "The Trial of the Chicago 7" in film.

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Boseman, who passed away in August after a private battle with colon cancer, posthumously won the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a leading man for his role in the movie "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". Boseman's widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award.

Furthermore, The actor's co-star in the film, Viola Davis, was also honored. She accepting the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a leading role.

In television, "The Crown" and "Schitt's Creek" continued their awards season success.

Check out the full list of SAG Award winners 2021, here.