SAG will give its annual Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbra Streisand this winter.
Streisand is currently on the best sellers lists with her 992 page book, “My Name is…Barbra.” The SAG Award is for her many films in which she acted or directed or both.
The SAG Awards will be presented on Netflix on February 24th.
“Ever since I was a young girl sitting in the Loew’s Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, I dreamed of being one of those actresses I saw on the screen,” Streisand, 81, said in a statement. “The movies were a portal to a world I could only imagine. Even though I was an unlikely candidate, somehow my dream came true. This award is especially meaningful to me because it comes from my fellow actors, whom I so admire.”
Streisand definitely deserves this award. She’s persisted in a man’s world, bucking the system to get her work done. It was not easy by a long shot. More power to her!
As for the SAG Awards, they used to be a good predictor of the Oscars. It’s unclear if they still are. But the Best Ensemble Award gives an idea of what will be named Best Picture. This year’s Best Ensemble nominees should be drawn from a list including Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Air, The Color Purple, and Poor Things. Anyway that’s my guess.
