It was a night to remember for the cast of Only Murders in the Building!
Selena Gomez accepted the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 23. The actress took the stage without her costars Steve Martin and Martin Short, who did not attend the at the ceremony.
Martin previously revealed that Short contracted COVID while attending the SNL50: The Anniversary Special last week.
“We never win. This is so weird!” Gomez joked before poking fun at her fellow cast members. “Marty and Steve aren’t here because, you know, they don’t really care.”
“But I just, I don’t know what to say,” she continued, playfully acting like she would forget to mention Short and Martin. “Thank you to Marty and Steve for — well they raised me. But I genuinely am just so grateful to everybody. The writers, everyone deserves this. And I take it home for all of us, and I’m bringing this back to New York for season five. Thank you so much. I’m so grateful.”
Starring Marin, Short and Gomez, Only Murders in the Building chronicles three New Yorkers living on the Upper West Side who come together over their love of true crime podcasts and end up finding themselves at the center of more than a few true crimes.
In April, Martin and Short praised Gomez in an interview with PEOPLE after working together for more than three years on Only Murders in the Building.
“I think it just gets deeper and deeper and deeper,” Short said of his friendship with Gomez. “She is so lovely as a human, she’s so remarkable as a talent, and she just has an aura and this lovely spirit. Our friendship grows and grows.”
“We didn’t really know Selena, we didn’t know what we’re getting into. I knew she has a fabulous personality, she’s very smart. But she is never late,” Martin added, calling it “a very big deal” on sets.
The other nominees included Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks and Shrinking.
Abbott Elementary chronicles a group of Philadelphia teachers, mockumentary style, as they navigate the challenges of teaching at a public school.
Star and creator Quinta Brunson opened up about creating the show because she saw “a feeling missing in the marketplace of television.”
“I’ve studied marketing and business, and when something is missing, it’s an opportunity to make something,” the 35-year-old actress told Oprah Daily in 2023. “And then creatively, I didn’t have anything I really could watch with my parents and enjoy. We weren’t having the same laughs — and having the same laugh is really important to me. I think it’s spiritual, and it’s healing. I wanted to make something that brought everyone together.”
In addition to Brunson, Abbott Elementary also stars Tyler James Williams (Gregory Eddie), Janelle James (Principal Ava Coleman), Lisa Ann Walter (Melissa Schemmenti), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Barbara Howard), Chris Perfetti (Jacob Hill) and William Stanford Davis (Mr. Johnson).
The Bear tells the story of a fine dining chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), who comes back to his hometown of Chicago to transform a local sandwich shop following the unexpected death of his brother (Jon Bernthal).
White opened up about how he prepared to take on the role during a 2022 interview with Uproxx.
“Before the pilot, we had a fair amount of time to kind of rehearse and be in that space. Ayo [Edebiri] and I went to a two-week kind of crash course in culinary school,” White, 34, explained. “And then she went to work at a couple of restaurants, I think in L.A. And I worked at a restaurant in L.A., a different restaurant and then also worked with a really wonderful chef in New York.”
“So we kind of separated after that,” he added. “But Ayo and I got to know each other through learning to cook, which was really nice.”
In addition to White and Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Edwin Lee Gibson and Matty Matheson also star on the Hulu series.
Hacks chronicles the ups and downs between comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) as they navigate the differences stemming from their generation gap.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in June, Smart, 73, recalled, “When I read the script, I said, ‘This is everything I could possibly want for my next job.’”
“But I needed to be sure that real stand-ups could believe I was a comic,” she added. “I had never been a comedian, so they were the real litmus test. And I passed, I think!”
Season 3 featured guest stars including Tony Goldwyn, Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Bucatinsky, J. Smith Cameron and George Wallace.
Shrinking stars Jason Segel as single dad Jimmy Laird, who is grieving the sudden loss of his wife as he navigates his friendships with his boss Paul Rhodes (Harrison Ford), coworker Gaby (Jessica Williams), friend Brian (Michael Urie) and neighbors Liz (Christa Miller) and Derek (Ted McGinley).
When asked how seriously he takes portraying the character Paul’s Parkinson’s journey, Harrison, 82, told PEOPLE, “Can I say deadly f—ing seriously?”
“There’s no intention to make it into a joke,” he explained. “But there are people that absorb these kinds of experiences with grace and courage and a little bit of wisdom. And that is not to say that some people do not.”
“It’s just to say that this is a person particularly equipped to communicate what it is that it’s like, and that is something that I feel that is worth sharing with our audience,” he added.
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