"Birdman" won the big prize -- outstanding motion picture cast -- at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, but it was talk about heritage and diversity that captured the evening.
On the TV side, the winners included "Orange Is the New Black" -- a series about a women's prison, created by a woman, featuring a cast that includes a transgender performer -- and black actresses Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba.
And the movie winners included Patricia Arquette, who won for a performance in "Boyhood" that she filmed over 12 years -- and wasn't afraid to show it.
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Arquette comes from a long line of performers. Her siblings, including Rosanna Arquette and David Arquette, are actors. So was her father and grandfather. She paid tribute to all of them in her speech.
"I'm a fourth-generation actor," she said, visibly overwrought, adding that her family has been performing for more than a century.
But it was the wins by Davis, Aduba and "Orange" that caught the attention of social media, which erupted 10 days ago when the Oscar nominations put forth a very un-diverse crowd.
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Davis' speech, in particular, was particularly moving.
After beginning with an observation about how she tells her daughter stories, she paid tribute to the producers who thought of her for their "How to Get Away with Murder" story.
"I'd like to thank Paul Lee, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Pete Nowalk for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark-skinned African-American woman who looks like me," she said.
Source: CNN.COM
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