Biggest moments from the SAG Awards, from Timothée Chalamet to Colin Farrell

On Sunday, Hollywood’s brightest stars made a final sprint to Oscar night.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards marked the last major awards show before next week’s Academy Awards, putting a bow on a wildly unpredictable year. Papal thriller “Conclave” made off with the evening’s top trophy for outstanding cast (SAG’s equivalent of best picture), while A-listers Zoe Saldaña ("Emilia Pérez") and Kieran Culkin ("A Real Pain") continued their monthslong sweeps in acting categories.

Despite some moving speeches and shocking upsets, the SAG Awards will have little impact on next weekend’s winners – Oscar voting wrapped nearly a week ago – although it at least gives us a sense of where actors’ allegiances lie going into the film industry’s biggest night.

It was a fittingly chaotic ceremony for a topsy-turvy season, plagued by multiple sound issues and a bevy of actors tripping through their teleprompter scripts. But there was also plenty of fun to be had, with mini-reunions of the casts of "New Girl," "The Good Place" and "Gossip Girl" that were genuinely amusing to watch.

Here are the biggest moments you missed from the 2025 SAG Awards, hosted by Kristen Bell and streaming on Netflix for the first time:

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Kristen Bell shows cute montage of Selena Gomez, Jodie Foster in their earliest roles

Bell kicked off the ceremony on a wholesome note, channeling her “Frozen” character Anna as she performed "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" with reworked lyrics about the life of a struggling thespian. “Do you wanna be an actor? Let’s get your foot inside the door,” Bell sang. “Can you scream a lot on Halloween, or be a beauty queen, or hug a purple dinosaur?”

The cameras then cut to various nominees as they reacted to footage of their younger selves: Selena Gomez, shaking her head as she watched herself on “Barney,” Jodie Foster, laughing at her Coppertone sunscreen commercial, and Jason Segel, visibly surprised seeing his bit role as Watermelon Guy in “Can’t Hardly Wait.”

Kieran Culkin rambles, thanks Jesse Eisenberg's sister during SAG Awards speech

Culkin continued his characteristically off-the-cuff awards run with another prattling speech as he accepted the supporting actor trophy for “A Real Pain.” “Thank you, SAG-AFTRA, for this incredibly heavy award," Culkin joked, before spending most of his time onstage riffing about the hulking statuette and counting down the speech timer flashing before him.

But he managed to get earnest at the very end, thanking his “gorgeous” wife and their young kids, as well as writer/director/co-star Jesse Eisenberg, whose sister, Hallie, suggested he cast Culkin in the film: “Thank you, Hallie, for thinking of me and putting my name in your stupid brother's ear!"

Jane Fonda proudly proclaims she's 'woke' in rousing SAG Awards speech

Jane Fonda gave an impassioned speech at the SAG Awards, where she was honored with the life achievement award for her six decades of acting and activism. "This means the world to me," said Fonda, 87. "And your enthusiasm makes it seem less like a late twilight of my life and more like a 'Go, girl. Kick ass,' which is good because I'm not done."

A self-described “late bloomer,” Fonda reflected on her “really weird career” and joked that acting gave her the chance to play “angry women with opinions, which, you know, is a stretch for me.” She also called on the importance of unions and empathy in this uncertain political moment, saying that “woke just means you give a damn about other people.”

“We mustn’t, for a moment, kid ourselves about what is happening,” said Fonda, earning multiple standing ovations throughout her speech. “This is big-time serious, folks. Let’s be brave. We must not isolate. We must stay in community. We must help the vulnerable. We must find ways to project an inspiriting vision of the future.”

Timothée Chalamet confesses: He wants to be one of the GOATs

Call him “Timmy Upset.” Timothée Chalamet overcame an early flubbing of teleprompter lines (“I should have done a rehearsal,” he laughed during a presentation for “A Complete Unknown”) to pick up a somewhat surprising win for best actor over "The Brutalist" star Adrien Brody. And while others may have been more demure in victory, Chalamet instead got honest and showed competitive fire in his acceptance speech.

“I can’t downplay the significance of this award because it means the most to me,” Chalamet said. “I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is, I’m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there. This (trophy) doesn’t signify that, but it’s a little more fuel, a little more ammo to keep going.”

Selena Gomez gobsmacked by surprise win for 'Only Murders in the Building'

No one was more shocked by SAG’s pick for best TV comedy ensemble than Selena Gomez. The fourth season of her Hulu series, “Only Murders in the Building,” was a surprise winner in the category after losing to “Ted Lasso,” “Abbott Elementary” and “The Bear” in the past few years.

“Wait, we never win. This is so weird,” Gomez began, clearly blindsided yet beaming as the audience cheered her on. Although co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short weren’t in the audience, the "Emilia Pérez" actress thanked the comedy veterans for “helping raise me. I genuinely am just so grateful to the writers. Everyone deserves this. … I'm bringing this back to New York for Season 5!”

Colin Farrell has playful moment with Jamie Lee Curtis after giving her COVID

When Jamie Lee Curtis presented outstanding actor in a limited series, she jocularly called out winner Colin Farrell as “the man who gave me COVID at the Golden Globes.” “The Penguin” actor laughed off Curtis’ quip, noting that he picked up the virus from his “Banshees of Inisherin” co-star.

“Guilty as charged!” Farrell responded as he got onstage. “But Brendan Gleeson gave it to me! So I was just spreading the love.”

Demi Moore gives another heartfelt speech about acting changing 'her life'

If Culkin has been this awards season’s much-needed comic relief, Demi Moore has been its beating heart. After her touching “popcorn actress” speech at the Golden Globes, “The Substance” star poured her emotions out yet again after winning Sunday for best actress, harking back to when she first got her SAG-AFTRA card in 1978 at age 15.

“It changed my life because it gave me meaning, it gave me purpose and it gave me direction,” Moore said. “I was a kid on my own who had no blueprint for life and I certainly knew nothing about acting. But I watched and I listened and learned from all of you. You have all been my greatest teachers, and I am so, so grateful that I have continued over so many years … to try and sometimes succeed but to keep going.”

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