'Black Panther' wins top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
LOS ANGELES - An Oscar season that has had no clear, sustained front-runner took another twist at Sunday evening's Screen Actors Guild Awards, as Hollywood's actors - representing the largest voting bloc of the motion picture academy - gave their highest honor to "Black Panther."
The victory for the Marvel superhero smash, the highest-grossing film of the year, follows its landmark achievement this month when it became the first comic book movie ever to land a best picture Oscar nomination.
Accepting the award at the ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, star Chadwick Boseman acknowledged the importance of the film - whose ensemble beat out the
