Da’Vine Joy Randolph of “The Holdovers” and Ayo Edebiri of “The Bear” continued to add to their awards collection with respective prizes from the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The ceremony took place Saturday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and streamed live on Netflix.

In “The Holdovers,” the Focus Features comedy/drama set in the early 1970s, Randolph plays Mary Lamb, the outspoken and compassionate head cook at a Boston-area boarding school, who is grieving over the death of her military son in the Vietnam War. Randolph won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

In her acceptance speech, Randolph addressed “The Holdovers” director Alexander Payne and her co-stars, Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa, who were in the audience.

“Grief is a slippery emotion to capture. And I thank you for creating an environment where I felt safe enough to explore the depths of Mary,” she said.

Randolph added, “How lucky are we that we get to do what we do? Truly. In what other profession are people able to live so many lives and touch so many hearts of those they have never gotten to meet. I wake up every day overwhelmed with gratitude to be a working actor. To be awarded this [prize] by my fellow artists is the greatest honor of my career.”

In the FX on Hulu comedy series “The Bear,” Edebiri portrays eager and intelligent Sydney Adamu, a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef who works at a Chicago restaurant while navigating a neurotic boss and co-workers. Edebiri won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.

In her acceptance speech, Edebiri harkened to the world of Black literature in expressing her feelings. 

“I’m going to butcher, just really bastardize a James Baldwin quote, ‘cause I heard it the other day. The act of love is just really an act of mirroring. And I think that anything that anybody sees in me that’s worth anything, it’s because of the people who love me and support me and have made me who I am,” she said.

Edebiri added, “One of the biggest displays of that is ‘The Bear.’ The cast and crew of the show, it wouldn’t be possible without you guys. You’re a miracle. I’m so grateful to be in your company. It’s made me a better person and I hope a better actor.”

Randolph and Edebiri won similar prizes for the same roles at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards and the 2024 Critics Choice Awards. In addition, Edebiri’s role in “The Bear” resulted in her winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards. For the 2024 Academy Awards, Randolph is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “The Holdovers.” Randolph’s winning streak for “The Holdovers”—she has won practically every major award where she’s received a nomination for this movie—has made her the frontrunner to win an Oscar for “The Holdovers.”

The SAG nominations and awards are voted for by the labor union Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which has about 160,000 members. Of those members, 119,515 are eligible voters, according to SAG-AFTRA.

Universal Pictures’ drama “Oppenheimer” (a biopic about atomic bomb inventor J. Robert Oppenheimer) won the most awards (three) for the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards movie categories, including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. “The Bear” was the top winner in the TV categories, emerging victorious in all of three categories for which it was nominated, including Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In addition to Edebiri, other Black cast members from “The Bear” who share this ensemble award include Lionel Boyce, who has the role of pastry chef Marcus Brooks; Liza Colón-Zayas, who portrays line cook Tina Marrero; and Edwin Lee Gibson, who plays line cook Ebraheim.

The 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards did not have a host, but actor Idiris Elba made comedic remarks on stage during the beginning and end of the show. While commenting that the ceremony was being livestreamed for the first time on Netflix, Elba said, “Since we’re on Netflix, what’s the rule around swearing?” He added, “Here’s a good rule of thumb: Maybe don’t say anything you wouldn’t say in front of Oprah.”

Oprah Winfrey was in the audience in support of the nominated cast from Warner Bros. Pictures’ 2023 movie musical “The Color Purple”—Winfrey wasn’t nominated, but she’s one of the producers of the film. Winfrey smiled and looked slightly surprised at Elba’s remark about colorful language. After the camera showed Winfrey, Elba said, “F**k, that was Oprah.”

Elba was among some of the people who made remarks on-stage about the SAG-AFTRA strike that lasted from July to November 2023. SAG-AFTRA went on strike against the production companies and studios that are members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The strike ended after SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP reached an agreement in contract negotiations that would result in better treatment of SAG-AFTRA members for issues such as wages, insurance, residual payments, and use of artificial intelligence.

Elba said about the SAG-AFTRA strike: “To be serious for a moment, it is especially meaningful to be here with us, all together, for this occasion, after going through a very difficult time with the strike. I want to take this moment to honor and appreciate all of you—both here and watching at home—who stood up for SAG-AFTRA in solidarity and support. So, thank you very much.” 

The commercial-free show added backstage interview segments with some of the ceremony’s winners, who were interviewed by “Queer Eye” co-host/fashion expert Tan France. He and “Project Runway” judge Elaine Welteroth co-hosted the pre-show arrivals segment on the red carpet.

Edebiri said in her backstage interview that she doesn’t prepare acceptance speeches when she’s nominated at awards shows. When asked what’s the first thing that goes through her mind right after her name is announced as an award winner, Edebiri replied: “Kind of shock and surprise. Terror that I have to speak. Terror that I have to speak in front of Oprah. And then, just a wave of gratitude.”

In her backstage interview, Randolph said of her Screen Actors Guild Award: “This one is really special because it’s from our peers. I would not be here without my fellow actors.”

Except for the backstage interviews, the Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony kept the same format as it has in previous years, when the show was simulcast on TNT and TBS, which opted not to renew their longtime contract with the show after the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards. 

Black-oriented projects that received Screen Actors Guild Award nominations but did not win included “The Color Purple,” Orion Pictures’ comedy/drama “American Fiction,” Netflix’s dramatic film “Rustin,” and ABC’s comedy series “Abbott Elementary.”

A complete list of winners can be found at the official Screen Actors Guild Awards website.