Screen Actors Guild Awards: Winning doesn’t necessarily mean Oscar gold

The Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding cast in a motion picture is considered the guild’s equivalent of the best picture Oscar. But since the first ensemble award was handed out to 1995’s “Apollo 13,� not all the winners winners have gone on to win the Academy Award’s top prize although a healthy number have.

The 1996 comedy “The Birdcage� is the only SAG winner in the category not to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture, and 1995’s “Braveheart� is the only Oscar winner for best film not to be nominated for the SAG ensemble honor.

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Over the last 20 years, the 10 films that won the SAG Award for outstanding cast in a motion picture that went on to earn the Academy’s top prize are:

1998’s “Shakespeare in Love�

1999’s “American Beauty�

2002’s “Chicago�

2003’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King�

2005’s “Crash�

2007’s “No Country for Old Men�

2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire�

2010’s “The King’s Speech�

2012’s “Argo�

2014’s “Birdman�

Being nominated or winning a Screen Actors Guild Award in lead and supporting categories, though, certainly helps one chances of winning an Oscar.

Only two actors — Marcia Gay Harden and Christoph Waltz — have won Academy Awards without being nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Judi Dench won the SAG outstanding supporting performance by a female actor for 2000’s “Chocolat,� while Harden won the Oscar for “Pollock.� And Tommy Lee Jones received the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role for 2012’s “Lincoln,� while Waltz picked up his second Oscar for supporting actor for “Django Unchained.�