Given Anora’s surprise dominance at the Producers Guild Awards and Directors Guild Awards, many thought that the tide had turned against Demi Moore and The Substance in this year’s wacky Oscar race. Awards-season prognosticators even described the SAGs as Demi’s last-chance saloon to go into the Oscars with any kind of momentum or hype. Well, it happened. Demi won the lead-actress SAG Award and Anora went home with nothing. So… the guilds are actually split. Directors and producers love what Sean Baker did with Anora, but the actors’ guild was like “nah, we’ll give it to Demi for this terrible horror film.”
Demi wore this very weird Bottega Veneta dress to win her first SAG. I kind of wonder if she thought she would lose? Like, that’s what the dress felt like to me. She looks so thin as well. Anyway, congrats to her. One really nice thing is the all of the best-actress contenders have been really friendly this year, and Demi and Mikey have often stopped to hug each other and their fellow nominees on their way up to various podiums. Demi did it again last night, stopping to hug Cynthia Erivo.
They’ve finally got Mikey Madison dressing like a princess and that’s when she loses! She wore a custom Louis Vuitton in an icy silver-blue.
Also in LV: Danielle Deadwyler. This is completely bonkers. LV lost the plot with this one.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Avalon Red.
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- 31st SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA,Image: 968239071, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Demi Moore, Credit line: Nicky Nelson/Wenn/Avalon
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- 31st SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA,Image: 968239072, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Demi Moore, Credit line: Nicky Nelson/Wenn/Avalon
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- 31st SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA,Image: 968239074, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Demi Moore, Credit line: Nicky Nelson/Wenn/Avalon
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- 31st SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA,Image: 968239105, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Demi Moore, Credit line: Nicky Nelson/Wenn/Avalon
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- 31st SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA,Image: 968239107, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Demi Moore, Credit line: Nicky Nelson/Wenn/Avalon
Glad she got the award, but hate the dress. Wish she had worn something really incredible for her win.
I wish Oscar voters would vote on performance instead of whose “turn” it is. Thank god for the Baftas. I still hope Mikey Madison wins the Oscar. The Substance was so awful my best friend who likes all kinks of terrible movies even hated it.
Mikey’s role is just her doing nudity and cursing for two hours and was directed by a man with disdain for intimacy coordinators. What is so deserving about her performance? The overdue narrative for Demi only came after her Globes speech — she was getting so much praise prior to that. Anora seems to do well in awards when the voting body is overwhelmingly male. And actresses in their 20s are over represented in the Best Actress category. So perhaps it’s actually bias propelling Anora’s success, not The Substance’s.
Aww Demi being so emotional, I’m honestly so happy for her. Will be thrilled for either her or Mikey next week!
Mikey looks so gorgeous! Should she have saved this look for the Oscars I wonder?
Lol totally forgot about Cynthia and Lena Waithe- why does Ariana get all the heat about being a home wrecker?
I didn’t hate the lampshade dress on Danielle. It looked fun. How she sat down in it I have no idea.
On Demi, I saw the video and her lips are not as awful in motion as they are in stills. She has great legs and I did like this dress too.
The silver dress is pretty but not on Mikey, imho. It washes her out, despite the red lips.
Please correct me if I am wrong, as far as I know, DGA is more male-dominated like 4:1 male voters vs female. SGA awards voters are more gender balanced. So, it didn’t surprise me that a production like Anora got awarded more by DGA.
I loved the Substance and Demi was the perfect actress for the role. I hope she gets the Oscar, rooting for her.
100% agree. I am convinced that most of those sh*t talking the movie are men because it’s such a harsh depiction of what women go through – largely because of them. I know some women don’t like it too (and that’s ok, it’s art, not everyone has to like the same thing), but I am willing to bet that MOST of those voting against the movie and Demi are men.
I’m a woman and I hated it. I don’t think it had anything interesting or new to say about the difficulties of being a woman. I also think that if Demi wasn’t a legacy actress who had been willing to go both nude and ugly in the film, she wouldn’t be winning, because there was nothing special about her performance. 🤷
@Arizona, that is of course your opinion. I loved Demi’s acting in the role. Going nude itself isn’t sexual, I didn’t see anything about Demi’s nude body to be intended for male gaze. I saw Anora’s trailer, it looked like p0rn. It is weird everyone who has something to say about Demi’s naked body doesn’t have anything to say about all the sex scenes in Anora, shot without an intimacy coordinator because the male director didn’t see a need for it.
The Substance is a beautifully shot movie, it is a good example of its own genre and it was created by a woman, Coralie Fargeat. It is the intent of the movie to criticize the male gaze by making it disgusting to the viewers. The evidence is in front of you: mostly male voters awarded Anora, while more gender balanced one awarded The Substance. You can’t disagree with the facts.
Thank you @sevenblue. You’ve outlined my opinion about the movie perfectly.
@Sevenblue I didn’t say that Demi going nude had anything to do with it being sexual. in my opinion, the voters are considering her “brave” for going nude as an older woman. which doesn’t inherently make the performance special or interesting. I also will admit that it’s interesting that no one brings up an intimacy coordinator for The Substance given that the two stars are both nude in it quite a bit.
also, Mikey Madison didn’t see the need for the intimacy coordinator, not just the director (which I disagree with, but I’m not the one doing it).
I think it’s interesting that your comment focused on the nudity solely and whether it was intended for the male gaze. I also don’t really know what you mean by “you can’t disagree with the facts.” it’s my opinion, not facts, that the movie was bad, had nothing new to say about the way women are treated in Hollywood, and Demi’s performance was nothing special. I was simply pushing back on your idea that only men would dislike it.
also not for nothing, I don’t think the movie did a good job of making the male gaze disgusting to the viewers, and I’m not sure that was the actual intent. it did a good job of making Margaret Qualley seem really hot, and it seemed more like a commentary on how women will destroy themselves in pursuit of something they can’t maintain.
Demi’s stained glass dress has still been the most stunning on the carpet thus far imo. Its hard to top that.
I am a guy and a feminist and can very much appreciate the message of The Substance. I loved it and I don’t usually go for body horror.
It was a very risky role for her and she nailed it.
However, I am surprised she beat out Mikey Madelson and Cynthia Erivo.
I LOVE Mikey’s gown. Wow.
I am woefully behind on seeing any of the nominated movies.