Crazy Eyes And Orange Is The New Black Win Big At The SAG Awards

As did Eddie Redmayne, Patricia Arquette and Birdman...

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by Sophie Wilkinson |
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Another weekend, another red-carpet event for all those in Hollywood and beyond who've done some great work on entertaining us with their acting to get some awards.

And this time, with the Screen Actors Guild awards, we've finally seen Orange Is The New Black – nominated at just about every other TV-friendly event (even though it's not technically on TV, it's on Netflix, but you know what I mean) – win big.

Uzo Aduba, who plays Crazy Eyes, or Suzanne Warren if you feel a little kinder this morning, got herself an award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.

She got a little tearful in her acceptance speech, thanking everyone involved in the production of the show, and of course the cast, before saying: 'I love you guys so desperately, so much. This is not done without you, any step of the way.'

'Finally I just really, really, really truly want to say, the day I got this job was the day I stopped acting and to be in a room with all you amazing human beings, amazing talents, for what I respect so much and love so much, is really truly the greatest honour.'

'Thank you so very much. God bless you all.'

Later? The entire cast won big as they got an award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Of course, there were lots of other winners last night, not only the ones who'd made it down from Litchfield Prison for the night; Birdman won a scoop of awards, and Eddie Redmayne and Patricia Arquette took home the best actor/actress gongs.

The biggest winner? Diversity, some say. Not only did* Orange Is The New Black* getting a nod to signify the SAG Awards are a bit more progressive than, say, the Oscars (the series features a whole lot of women and a whole lot of people of colour), Viola Davis made this speech when she got an award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role 'Thank you, for thinking that a sexualised, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark-skinned African-American woman who looks like me.'

There's still a big way to go for Hollywood to represent people in the real world, but the more speeches like this are heard? Well, the better…

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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.

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