Demi Moore Calls Her Fellow Actors ‘My Biggest Lecturers’ in SAG Awards 2025 Win

The 2025 SAG Awards have topped their finest actress: Demi Moore!

The actress received the glory for her work in The Substance on the thirty first annual Display Actors Guild Awards ceremony, hosted by Kristen Bell, on Sunday, Feb. 23, on the Shrine Auditorium.

Throughout her speech, Moore reminisced on first receiving her membership to the Display Actors Guild at 15 years outdated in 1978 and stated incomes her membership “modified my life as a result of it gave me that means, it gave me function and it gave me course.”

“I used to be a child alone who had no blueprint for all times and I definitely knew nothing about appearing, however I watched, and I listened, and I discovered from all of you,” she instructed the SAG Awards’ viewers filled with actors. “You may have all been my best lecturers, and I’m so so grateful that I’ve continued over these so a few years to have the ability to attempt to generally succeed and generally fail however to have the ability to maintain going, and I couldn’t do this with out the assist of my unbelievable group.”

Pamela Anderson (The Final Showgirl), Cynthia Erivo (Depraved), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora) had been additionally within the working for SAG’s lead movie actress prize this 12 months.

Moore, 62, had a roaring begin to awards season. She scored finest actress in a comedy or musical movie on the 2025 Golden Globes earlier this month for her function as a profitable actress who makes an attempt to reverse her ageing course of in Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror satire flick. Moore can be up for the Academy Award for Finest Actress for her function in The Substance. 

In The Final Showgirl, Anderson, 57, performs Shelly, a soft-spoken Las Vegas dancer at a crossroads when the lodge that hosts her long-running present proclaims it should finish after a long time. She begins to battle with what her future holds whereas additionally making an attempt to restore her relationship along with her daughter, performed by Billie Lourd. Anderson additionally obtained nominations on the 2024 Gotham Awards and the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, which had been held Jan. 5.

Erivo, 38, and her costar Ariana Grande notched recognition for his or her work as the longer term witches of Oz — Elphaba and Galinda/Glinda, respectively. The film can be up for finest supporting actor for Jonathan Bailey, 36 and finest supporting actress for Grande, 31, in addition to finest forged and finest stunt ensemble. Erivo can be Oscar-nominated for her efficiency.

Within the musical crime drama Emilia Pérez, Gascón, 52, performs Manitas, a Mexican cartel chief who hires a lawyer named Rita (fellow nominee Zoe Saldaña) to assist him transition into dwelling as a girl named Emilia Pérez. Issues get much more difficult when Pèrez decides years later that she needs to reunite with the household she left behind. Gascón made historical past as the primary out trans girl to be nominated for the Finest Actress Academy Award.

Madison, 25, leads Anora within the titular function, a intercourse employee experiencing a whirlwind Cinderella story. The breakthrough star received lead actress on the 78th annual British Academy Movie Awards ceremony. Throughout her speech, she gave a highly effective shout-out to the intercourse employee neighborhood. The actress has additionally obtained nominations on the Critics Selection Awards, Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards, and extra.

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