The 2024 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards were hostless – and pointless, too
The TelegraphAn awards show without any hosts? It sounded heavenly, especially after Jo Koy’s disastrous night at the Golden Globes – never mind those of us still suffering flashbacks to James Corden at the Brit Awards from a decade ago. Alas, the hostless format was the only truly distinguishing feature of Saturday night’s thumpingly inessential Screen Actors Guild Awards, which arrived crowbarred into a crowded calendar a week after the Baftas and a fortnight ahead of the Oscars. The threat posed to the thespian profession by artificial intelligence was one of the motivating factors for last year’s actors strike: ironically this punishingly generic ceremony felt like the ChatGPT of gong-givings. In the UK, the SAG Awards kicked off at midnight – with the first 60 minutes consisting of yawn-inducing red carpet interviews by Tan France before the ceremony finally began.