Barbra Streisand accepted her lifetime achievement honor on the thirtieth annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday with what appeared like an acknowledgment of the present world scenario. Noting that Hollywood was constructed by studio chiefs like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer, males who fled antisemitism in Japanese Europe, she stated, “Now I dream of a world where such prejudice is a thing of the past.”

However the actress, filmmaker and singer centered totally on her love of movie, fondly recalling going to the films when she was rising up in Brooklyn and seeing Marlon Brando, her first crush, in “Guys and Dolls” at a theater close to Erasmus Corridor Excessive Faculty. “That make-believe world was much more pleasant than anything I experienced,” she stated, explaining that she didn’t like actuality. “I wanted to be in the movies.”

Later, as a working actress, she stated, her first movie, “Funny Girl” (1968), set the tone for her profession, due to the director, William Wyler, and the cinematographer, Harry Stradling. “They had no problem with young women with opinions,” she added.

Elsewhere on the awards, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph (“The Holdovers”) and Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) received for supporting roles on the movie facet. For tv, “The Bear” swept the comedy honor, taking greatest ensemble in addition to greatest actor and actress for Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri. We’re updating the winners as they’re introduced.