SAG Awards: Why Demi Moore Took a Long Pause in Her Acceptance Speech

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Demi Moore's grant play has been afloat throttle. 

The Substance star took location the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Leading Role grant for her show successful the horror film astatine the Screen Actors Guild Awards connected Feb. 23. (For each the stars who won large astatine the 2025 SAG awards, click here.)

Recounting however she earned her SAG card, Demi began connected signifier astatine Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall, "It was successful 1978. I was 15—almost 16—and it changed my beingness due to the fact that it gave maine meaning."

"It gave maine intent and it gave maine direction," she continued, "because I was a kid, connected my own, who had nary blueprint for life—and I surely knew thing astir acting."

The actress—who bushed retired chap nominees Mikey Madison (Anora), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl) and Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) in her category—went connected to stress the value of believing successful yourself.

"There's this thought that what we judge is truthful overmuch much almighty than what we think," she shared. "But the world is, erstwhile I judge it, I will see it—and I americium truthful grateful for this."

Sharing that she erstwhile was a "little miss who didn't judge successful herself," Demi was visibly affectional arsenic she looked down astatine her award. In fact, she took a long, reflective intermission earlier resuming her speech.

"The words are benignant of beyond me," she explained to the crowd, "so I'm conscionable going to person to conscionable accidental convey you."

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Heading into the large nighttime successful tv and film, which was hosted by Kristen Bell for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, Outstanding Performance by a Lead Female Actor wasn't the lone class to beryllium stacked with awesome nominees. 

After all, Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) each faced disconnected for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor successful a Lead Role. Meanwhile, the casts of A Complete Unknown, Anora, Conclave, Emilia Pérez and Wicked earned nods for Outstanding Performance by a Cast successful a Motion Picture.  

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But seeing stars get their hands connected the iconic "The Actor" trophies isn't the lone gully of the SAG awards. For Kristen, the ceremonial is besides an accidental to enactment a grin connected millions of people's faces. 

"Especially having it airing it connected Netflix and making it look global, it allows radical to person a nighttime of conscionable fun, normal, goofy jokes," she told People successful an interrogation published Feb. 18, "and spot each of the stars of tv and movie that they love." 

For each the stars who showed retired for the 2025 SAG Awards, support reading. 

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Ariana Grande

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Timothee Chalamet

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Selena Gomez

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Cynthia Erivo 

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Leighton Meester

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Adam Brody

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Zoe Saldaña 

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Keke Palmer 

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Kieran Culkin

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Millie Bobby Brown

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Demi Moore

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Colman Domingo

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Jeremy Allen White

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach

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Daniel Craig 

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Ralph Fiennes 

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Brett Goldstein

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Kumail Nanjiani

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Colin Farrell

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Adrien Brody

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Keri Russell 

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Michelle Yeoh

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Georgina Chapman

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Jane Fonda 

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Jodie Foster 

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Gillian Anderson

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Monica Barbaro

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Lily Gladstone

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Mikey Madison

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