The Screen Actors Guild made clear on Saturday night that they are neither the Oscars nor the Golden Globes and that the guild makes its own choices.

Unlike the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the Screen Actors Guild awarded trophies to several actors of color, including Viola Davis, replicating her Emmy for best actress in a drama for ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder; Idris Elba as best actor in a mini-series or movie for BBC America’s Luther (Elba also was named best supporting actor in a movie for Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation) and Uzo Aduba as best actress in a comedy for Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. Aduba also won the Emmy as best supporting actress in a comedy for this role. Queen Latifah was named best actress in a mini-series or made for TV movie for HBO’s Bessie.

The Academy is currently wading through the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, after it failed for the second year in a row to nominate any actors of color.

Meanwhile, SAG, unlike the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), handed Netflix some of the night’s biggest awards, including best actor in a drama to Kevin Spacey for season three of Netflix’s House of Cards, the above-mentioned Aduba and best comedy to Orange is the New Black. All three of those wins were consecutive for Netflix, as was Davis’.

With those three awards, Netflix was the TV leader, with no other network taking more than one award.

SAG gave the other major TV awards to PBS for the penultimate season of Downton Abbey, taking its third SAG award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series. Jeffrey Tambor was named outstanding male performer in a comedy series for his role as Maura Pfefferman in Amazon’s Transparent.

Finally, Carol Burnett was awarded SAG’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards took place at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium and aired live on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

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