6 Best SAG Award Best Ensemble Cast Winning Movies

By Vlad Zakh · June 17, 2026

The SAG Award for Outstanding Cast rewards ensembles that feel seamlessly interwoven. Spotlight has journalists uncovering a cover-up, Little Miss Sunshine has a dysfunctional family road-tripping to a beauty contest, and Crash and Traffic weave strangers’ lives together. American Beauty and Apollo 13 round out the six.

Spotlight (2015)

IMDb ★ 8.1 RT 97% Metacritic 93

A team of investigative journalists exposes decades of institutional cover-up within the Catholic Church.

Directed by Tom McCarthy · 2h 09m · Rated R

Won 2 Oscars124 wins & 146 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

IMDb ★ 7.8 RT 91% Metacritic 80

A dysfunctional family road-trips a young girl to a beauty pageant she barely wants to attend.

Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris · 1h 42m · Rated R

Won 2 Oscars73 wins & 112 nominations

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Crash (2005)

IMDb ★ 7.7 RT 73% Metacritic 66

A dozen Los Angeles lives intersect through race, prejudice and one bad day after another.

Directed by Paul Haggis · 1h 52m · Rated R

Won 3 Oscars66 wins & 112 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, Howdy Amazon Channel · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Traffic (2000)

IMDb ★ 7.5 RT 93% Metacritic 86

The war on drugs told from three intersecting perspectives, each compromised in its own way.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh · 2h 27m · Rated R

Won 4 Oscars73 wins & 86 nominations

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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American Beauty (1999)

IMDb ★ 8.3 RT 87% Metacritic 84

A suburban father's midlife crisis upends his family when he becomes infatuated with his daughter's friend.

Directed by Sam Mendes · 2h 02m · Rated R

Won 5 Oscars112 wins & 102 nominations

Where to watch

Rent: JustWatch TV, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Apollo 13 (1995)

IMDb ★ 7.7 RT 92% Metacritic 78

A moon mission's crew has to improvise a way home after an oxygen tank explosion cripples their spacecraft.

Directed by Ron Howard · 2h 20m · Rated PG

Won 2 Oscars31 wins & 59 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best SAG Award Best Ensemble Cast Winning Movies

Spotlight (2015)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Crash (2005)

Traffic (2000)

American Beauty (1999)

Apollo 13 (1995)

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